Next year's overseas drama management more stringent video site: is seeking a solution

Due to the SARFT’s implementation of the “External Orders,” foreign film import requirements next year require video sites to buy overseas content that must be licensed. The US drama fans and Korean drama fans can no longer achieve the first time to follow overseas hot plays.

The overseas drama management tends to be more standardized and stricter, making the introduction of dramas in major video sites in recent years tend to cool down. At the 2014 China Film and Television Arts Innovation Summit, the author learned that the lag time for the introduction of overseas operas next year is about half a year. The introduction of a “time difference” in the first half of the year has caused industry insiders to worry that piracy will come back. The heads of several major video websites stated that they are seeking solutions and cooperated with the competent authorities to do a good job in the protection of copyrights.

Speaking of the impact of limited broadcasts on overseas plays, Zhang Yixin, general manager of Iqiyi's copyright production management center, felt that the biggest problem was that overseas dramas could not be broadcast simultaneously, which may create room for piracy. In recent years, several video sites have introduced copyright through the use of copyright, and they have followed the overseas hot broadcasts. This has contained pirated videos and it has been unknowingly disappeared in people’s lives. Ding Heng, senior director of Youku Potato, predicts that if overseas dramas cannot be synchronized and broadcast, piracy may spread. Youku Potato hopes to work together with the management department to find a solution. Sohu’s general manager of Copyright Film and Television Center Mark also said that Sohu will strive to buy the content through the approval as soon as possible to meet with friends, while cooperating with the higher authorities to do a good job in the protection of anti-piracy rights, to minimize the loss to a minimum.

A video site professional responsible for the purchase of the drama told reporters that the purchase price of overseas drama is not much different from that of domestic drama, but the flow of overseas drama is only one-tenth of that of the national opera, so the precondition for the introduction of tight overseas drama policies Next, overseas video dramas of various video websites will be more cautious. In the past, the phenomenon of domestic video websites competing for hot US dramas and Korean dramas is also cooling down. For the space reserved for the reduction of overseas drama next year, each video site will be filled with domestic dramas and home-made plays.