Software legalization achieved new progress in China

Recently, a meeting discussing issues on software authentication was hosted by the National Copyright Administration in Beijing, deciding to shift working priority to the consolidation of achieved accomplishments in this regard.

As of the end of December 2013, governmental departments at municipal and county level have completed the rectification in using legal software and 79.7% central and local governments have guided their affiliated departments through the fulfillment of installing legitimate software while 20,848 out of 29,729 enterprises have purchased authorized software with state owned enterprises, large and medium scale financial entities and headquarters in press industry all equipped with licensed software. Some 25 large and medium-sized companies played a leading role in trying a new mechanism of managing their software as asset.

In terms of software procurement, since October 2010 when China started calling for its governmental departments to use legal software, a total of 5,920,900 sets of authorized software (64.42% were made in China) and antivirus applications have cost 3.438 billion yuan, in which 34.07% was spent on local software. [Chinese version is available on legaldaily.com.cn]