Ho Chi Minh City: Handling software companies violating software copyright 1.5 billion

Inspector of the Ministry of Culture and Information in collaboration with the High-tech Crime Prevention Department (C15) has conducted unexpected inspections and discovered My Duc Ceramic Company, based in 35B-35C, 3/2 Street, Ward 11, District 10, Ho Chi Minh City seriously violated the provisions of the Intellectual Property Law on software copyright.

This is the first inspection conducted by the authorities in Ho Chi Minh City for the companies using the terminal. This activity is part of the 2006 software piracy handling campaign launched by the Vietnamese Government, starting in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. Ho Chi Minh.

C15 High-tech Crime Prevention Officer is examining computers infringing copyright of My Duc Ceramic Tile Company.

Along with the case of Daewoo Company - Hanel was discovered 42 computer software without copyright not long ago in Hanoi, this incident once again affirmed its determination to implement respect for software copyright. of the Government of Vietnam. Businesses that are using non-copyrighted computer software to serve their business operations will be severely punished.

In this unexpected inspection, at the My Duc Ceramic Company, the interdisciplinary inspection team made a record of violation and seized 30 computer CPUs with lots of illegal software such as Lac Viet Dictionary; Vietkey, WinZip, WinRar, Adobe, antivirus products like Symantec Antivirus, McAfee; Microsoft products such as Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Microsoft SQL Server 2005 . and Autodesk products; Corel Draw, ACD See software, total value of violated software amounted to 1.5 billion VND.

In response to the evidence given by the interdisciplinary inspection team, the representative of My Duc Ceramic Company signed a penalty report and pledged to comply with the current regulations and overcome violations in a short time. Best.

After this inspection, Chief Inspector of the Ministry of Culture and Information will issue a decision to sanction My Duc Ceramic Company based on Intellectual Property Law and Decree No. 56/2006 ND-CP dated 06 June of the year. 2006 of the Government on handling administrative violations in cultural and information activities.

The representative of My Duc ceramic tiles signed the minutes of sanctioning and seized the software copyright infringement material.

The penalty level, according to Mr. Vu Xuan Thanh, Chief Inspector of the Ministry of Culture and Information, revealed at a recent press conference in Hanoi about the implementation of the Intellectual Property Law in the field of software copyright. The level of the high-rise was slightly as before. The draft of the new Decree is being formulated by the Ministry of Culture and Information, which has set a more strict penalty. There are previous violations of only VND 30 million, the new regulation will be VND 100 million or when a commercial element is discovered, it will be punished 5 times more than the value of goods detected violations '.

According to Mr. Thanh, these activities will continue to be promoted in the coming time, in order to create favorable conditions for the development of Vietnam's software industry and create a healthy environment for foreign investment. and integration into the world, especially when Vietnam has become a member of the WTO.

' Still knowing that lowering software piracy rates is not something that can be hasty, but it is time for us to start taking aggressive measures. Software piracy not only inhibits the development of the software industry, tax losses, but also takes a lot of jobs in this field . '

Minh Huy