The Fifth Roundtable on Internet and the Information Law and the Seminar on “the Legal Issues in the Regulation of the Cultural Market” Successfully Held in Beijing

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The Fifth Roundtable on Internet and the Information Law and the Seminar on “the Legal Issues in the Regulation of the Cultural Market”, jointly organized by CASS Law Institute and CASS Research Center for Cultural Policy, were successfully held at the conference room of CASS Law Institute in Beijing on August 3, 2017. The roundtable was presided over by Lu Chao, a research fellow of CASS Research Center for Cultural Policy and attended by officials from the State Administration of Cultural Heritage and the Ministry of Culture and scholars from Peking University, Tsinghua University and other universities and research institutions in China. At the roundtable, professor Zhou Hanhua, Director of CASS and Assistant Director of CASS Law Institute, pointed out that the roundtable had three purposes: firstly, to draw on collective wisdom and absorb all useful ideas at the different levels of cultural administration for the construction of cultural legal system against the background of increasing number of interdisciplinary problems in cyberspace; secondly, to take the CASS as the research platform to build a cross-department and trans-disciplinary exchange mechanism between theoretical and practical circles in the cultural field; and thirdly, to understand the practical legal problems in the supervision of cultural market from the perspective of cultural administration, so as to determine the direction for the adoption of cultural policies. At the roundtable and the seminar, the participants gave keynote speeches and carried out discussions on how to make scientific legislation in the cultural field, how to further improve the methods of cultural law enforcement and how to enhance the people’s consciousness of abiding by cultural laws and regulations.