China's copyright authorities on Friday agreed with American and British counterparts to strengthen cooperation in online copyright protection.

A Memorandum of Understanding on the Establishment of a Coordination Mechanism For Online Copyright Protection was signed here by the National Copyright Administration of China (NCA) and the Motion Picture Association, Business Software Alliance, Association of American Publishers and Britain-based The Publishers Association.

According to the memorandum, all sides will strengthen and improve the authentification of copyright authorization, and communicate on cracking down transnational online piracy and copyright infringement on a regular basis.

The American and British sides will provide timely lists of their member companies to the NCA which pursue the protection of their movies, software, video and audio products and written works.

They will also provide information on pirated activities which harm the copyrights of their member companies.

The NCA will investigate in reported cases and hand those illegal ones over to judicial departments.

Cooperation on publicity and training will be enhanced and regular meetings will be held for exchange views on anti-piracy issues, according to the memorandum.

Source: Xinhua