The Ministry of Culture Opens Supervisory Website of Cultural Market

2011/05/11

Recently, the Ministry of Culture issued the "Notice on Investigating and Punishing the Twelfth Batch of Illegal Internet Cultural Activities", calling the cultural administrative departments and cultural market comprehensive enforcement agencies of relevant provinces (municipalities) to register and investigate the 14 online music sites suspected of illegal activities, including Baidu MP3, 20 online game operating units suspected of illegal promotion and publicity, including Shenzhen Thunder Network Technology Co., Ltd., and 4 units which are engaged in unauthorized online operating cultural activities, including Pentium Technology Network Co., Ltd..

According to the "Regulation on Complaint Letters and Visits" of the State Council and the "Measures for the Administration of Administrative Law Enforcement in Cultural Market" of the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Culture officially opened the 12318 National Cultural Market Report Website (www.12318.gov.cn) on April 26. The 12318 Website mainly accepts reports of entertainment places, commercial performance, artistic work, cybercafes, online games and online music from the public. The public can directly log in the site and then complete the reporting information. The Ministry of Culture will arrange officials to deal with the reports in the background, launch direct investigation according to the specific conditions or transfer them to provincial cultural administrative departments and cultural market comprehensive enforcement agencies for investigation.

(Source:IP Channel of People)