Notice on Rating Event for the Sixth Shenzhen Copyright Gold Award

     The award ceremony for the Sixth Shenzhen Copyright Gold Award will kick off on October 10, 2017, stop soliciting works on November 13, rate the works on November 24 and grant the awards in late December. The event will be cosponsored by Shenzhen Media Group, Shenzhen Press Group, Shenzhen Copyright Society and Shenzhen News Network, and supported and instructed by the Radio and Television Administration of Guangdong Province (Copyright Office), Shenzhen Market Supervision Administration (Intellectual Property Right Office) and related authorities. The event is intended to award enterprises and professionals that made outstanding achievements in creation, application, protection and management of copyright in 2017.

I. Event Purpose
    Copyright is one of the three pillars of intellectual property rights. Compared to patent, trademark and other industrial properties, copyright represents the interests of cultural values. Thus, it both has unique social attributes and also displays evident economic attributes. The praise mechanism of the Copyright Gold Award is built in the hope of inspiring creation and promoting continuous appearance of excellent cultural results. In addition, we hope to carry forward copyright application, praise copyright protection and promote the innovation and development of news, publication, radio, television, literature, art, creative design, animation game and other related industries, thereby propelling a balanced growth of hard and soft strengths of the city. It has promoted the cultural and creative industry of Shenzhen to become more aware of copyright year by year and played a positive role in establishing a legal environment for mass innovation, respect for copyright and copyright protection. As the only important copyright-related event of the Creative December Campaign this year, Shenzhen Copyright Gold Award will communicate copyright knowledge and function in the hope of discovering the awards for “top ten copyrighted cultural and creative products”, telling stories about how enterprises win a big market with small creative idea and playing the role in improving the design and innovation awareness and promoting the development of the copyright industry.

II. Awards
     The event will set a total of 30 awards, including 10 “Copyrighted Works Awards”, 5 “Copyright Application Awards”, 5 “Copyright Protection Awards”, 5 “Excellent Copyright Manager Awards”, 3 “Annual Copyright Registration Leader Awards” and 2 “Annual Award for Genuine Software Pilot Enterprise”, in six categories.

III. Scope of Rating
     The event will set the “Copyrighted Works Awards”, the “Copyright Application Awards”, the “Copyright Protection Awards”, the “Excellent Copyright Manager Awards”, the “Annual Copyright Registration Leader Awards” and the “Annual Award for Genuine Software Pilot Enterprise”, which will mainly target enterprises, nonprofit organizations and individuals in Shenzhen Municipality.

    The “Works Award” requires authors provide works, such as ( 1. Literary works: Literary works, film and television scripts that have been published; 2. Musical works; 3. Animation works: Animation design and cartoon works; 4. Applied art works: Industrial design works, planar design works, jewelry design and apparel design works; 5. Film & TV works; 6. Game software works.). The other awards don’t require text descriptions and recommendation tables.

IV. Recommendation Conditions
1. Works Award (10 awards altogether)
    Original works or works that are innovative in form of creation and content, render positive and progressive ideological contents, feature an extensive scope of communication and high level of social recognition, create evident economic benefits and social benefits and take certain market share.

   An applicant for the award must submit his or her certificate of title to the works such as copyright registration certificate, working paper or original involving copyright, legitimate publication and electronic copyright registration certificate. In the case of film, TV and musical works, the applicant should also submit a compact disk.

2. Copyright Application Award and Copyright Protection Award (5 awards respectively)
    (1) Copyright Application Award: Enterprises, nonprofit organizations, social organizations and individuals that have actively utilized copyright resources, taken every possible measure to promote the publishing and communication of copyrighted works, converted copyright resources into social wealth, realized market values of copyrighted works and promoted the forging of industrial chain of copyright, and created great social and economic benefits.

    (2) Copyright Protection Award: Organizations or individuals that have actively asserted rights and interests for copyright holders, displayed an innovative spirit in copyright protection, explored and applied innovative methods and creatively resolved long-term problems that have existed in copyright protection. They have made an outstanding contribution to regulating the copyright market environment, regularizing the market order and setting significant typical examples. They have created significant influences across the city and attracted extensive attention and good response in the society.

3. “Excellent Copyright Manager Award” (5 awards): Have engaged in copyright work for more than two years and made outstanding achievements in copyright registration, copyright licensing and copyright system building of enterprises.

4. “Annual Copyright Registration Leader Award” (3 awards): Take the lead in terms of number of registered original copyrighted works in the year, obviously take a role in propelling copyright protection and application of enterprises and be representative to some extent.

5. “Annual Award for Genuine Software Pilot Enterprise” (2 awards): Have done an excellent job to promote the use of genuine software, assure information security of enterprises, enhance risk capacity of enterprises, establish a reliable and law-keeping social environment and build good social images.

V. Recommendation Method
    An industry organization or relevant agency can recommend itself or other applicants, and submit the candidate to the Secretariat of Shenzhen Copyright Society for rating by the panel.

VI. Submission of Materials
    An organizing or recommending organization must submit one paper copy and electronic copy of relevant application materials to the Secretariat of Shenzhen Copyright Society prior to November 13, 2017.

    Address：Room 602, 6F, Sida Plaza, 19 Meilin Road, Futian District, Shenzhen

    Tel： 86185516, 86185519

    Email： szscgp@126.com

Organizing Committee of Shenzhen Copyright Gold Award

Shenzhen Copyright Society

October 10, 2017

Appendix 1: Application Form for the Sixth Shenzhen Copyright Gold Award (Works).doc

Appendix 2: Application Form for the Sixth Shenzhen Copyright Gold Award (Application).doc

Appendix 3: Application Form for the Sixth Shenzhen Copyright Gold Award (Protection).doc

Appendix 4: Application Form for the Sixth Shenzhen Copyright Gold Award (Excellent Copyright Manager).doc

Appendix 5: Application Form for the Sixth Shenzhen Copyright Gold Award (Annual Software Registration Leader).doc

Appendix 6: Application Form for the Sixth Shenzhen Copyright Gold Award (Annual Award for Genuine Software Pilot Enterprise).docx