【双语阅读】广电总局关于加强互联网视听节目内容管理的通知

 广电总局关于加强互联网视听节目内容管理的通知 发布时间：2009-03-30 　　近日，广电总局向各省、自治区、直辖市广播影视局，新疆生产建设兵团广播电视局发出《广电总局关于加强互联网视听节目内容管理的通知》，通知说，为加强网络文化建设和管理，传播社会主义先进文化，抵制互联网视听节目领域的低俗之风，扎实推进互联网视听节目建设，现就加强互联网（含移动互联网，以下简称互联网）视听节目内容管理问题通知如下：
　　一、根据《互联网视听节目服务管理规定》第十六条规定，互联网视听节目不得含有以下内容：
　　（一）反对宪法确定的基本原则的；
　　（二）危害国家统一、主权和领土完整的；
　　（三）泄露国家秘密、危害国家安全或者损害国家荣誉和利益的；
　　（四）煽动民族仇恨、民族歧视，破坏民族团结，或者侵害民族风俗、习惯的；
　　（五）宣扬邪教、迷信的；
　　（六）扰乱社会秩序，破坏社会稳定的；
　　（七）诱导未成年人违法犯罪和渲染暴力、色情、赌博、恐怖活动的；
　　（八）侮辱或者诽谤他人，侵害公民个人隐私等他人合法权益的；
　　（九）危害社会公德，损害民族优秀文化传统的；
　　（十）有关法律、行政法规和国家规定禁止的其他内容。
　　二、各互联网视听节目服务单位对有下列情节的视听节目要及时进行剪节、删除：
　　（一）恶意曲解中华文明、中国历史和历史史实的；恶意曲解他国历史，不尊重人类文明、他国文明和风俗习惯的；
　　（二）蓄意贬损、恶搞革命领袖、英雄人物、重要历史人物、中外名著及名著中重要人物形象的；
　　（三）恶意贬损人民军队、武装警察、公安和司法形象的；有虐待俘虏、刑讯逼供罪犯或犯罪嫌疑人等情节的；
　　（四）表现违法犯罪嚣张气焰，具体展示犯罪行为细节，暴露特殊侦查手段，暴露应当受到保护的举报人、证人等形象、声音的；
　　（五）鼓吹宗教极端主义，挑起各宗教、教派之间，信教与不信教群众之间的矛盾和冲突，伤害群众感情的；
　　（六）宣扬看相、算命、看风水、占卜、驱鬼治病等封建迷信活动的；
　　（七）以恶搞方式描绘重大自然灾害、意外事故、恐怖事件、战争等灾难场面的；
　　（八）具体展现淫乱、强奸、乱伦、恋尸、卖淫、嫖娼、性变态、自慰等情节的；
　　（九）表现或隐晦表现性行为、性过程、性方式及与此关联的过多肉体接触等细节的；
　　（十）故意展现、仅用肢体掩盖或用很小的遮盖物掩盖人体隐私部位的；
　　（十一）带有性暗示、性挑逗等易使人产生性联想的；
　　（十二）宣扬婚外恋、多角恋、一夜情、性虐待和换妻等不健康内容的；
　　（十三）以成人电影、情色电影、三级片、偷拍、走光、露点及各种挑逗性文字或图片作为视频节目标题或分类的；
　　（十四）有强烈刺激性的凶杀、血腥、暴力、自杀、绑架、吸毒、赌博、灵异等情节的；
　　（十五）有过度惊吓恐怖的画面、字幕、背景音乐及声音效果的；
　　（十六）具体展示虐杀动物，捕杀、食用国家保护类动物的；
　　（十七）带有侵犯个人隐私内容的；
　　（十八）以肯定、赞许的基调或引人模仿的方式表现打架斗殴、羞辱他人、污言秽语的；
　　（十九）宣扬消极、颓废的人生观、世界观和价值观，刻意渲染、夸大民族愚昧落后或社会阴暗面的；
　　（二十）国家广播电影电视总局禁止传播的影视节目以及电影、电视剧的删减片段；
　　（二十一）违反相关法律、法规精神的。
　　三、互联网视听节目服务单位要完善节目内容管理制度和应急处理机制，聘请高素质业务人员审核把关，对网络音乐视频MV、综艺、影视短剧、动漫等类别的节目以及“自拍”、“热舞”、“美女”、“搞笑”、“原创”、“拍客”等题材要重点把关，确保所播节目内容不违反本通知第一、二条规定。同时，对网民的投诉和有关事宜要及时处置。
　　四、互联网视听节目服务单位传播的影视剧，必须符合广播电影电视管理的有关规定，依法取得广播影视行政部门颁发的《电影片公映许可证》、《电视剧发行许可证》或《电视动画片发行许可证》；传播的理论文献影视片须依法取得广播影视行政部门颁发的《理论文献影视片播映许可证》。未取得《电影片公映许可证》的境内外电影片、未取得《电视剧发行许可证》的境内外电视剧、未取得《电视动画片发行许可证》的境内外动画片以及未取得《理论文献影视片播映许可证》的理论文献影视片，一律不得在互联网上传播。
　　五、从事互联网视听节目服务的单位要完善节目版权保护制度，严格遵守著作权法律、行政法规的规定，所播节目应具有相应版权。要采取版权保护措施，保护著作权人的合法权益。
　　各地广电管理部门要依法行政，恪尽职守，切实加强互联网视听节目内容管理，督促视听节目网站认真执行、自觉遵守上述规定，积极努力营造和谐、绿色的网络视听节目环境。   New rules imposed on Internet video content

The State Administration of Radio, Film, and TV is going after Internet videos.

In a notice issued on March 30, the Administration emphasized its concern over vulgarity and listed various types of content that online video hosts should filter from their sites.

Part (1) of the notice is the standard list of illegal content found in regulations on film, books, and other cultural material: no splittism, cults, or disruptions of social order.

Parts (2) and (3) are tailored for the type of content that currently appears, to varying degrees, on Chinese video hosts. Here's a translation:

(2) Internet audio-visual program service providers must edit or delete programs that contain any of the following:

1. Distortions of Chinese culture, Chinese history, and historical facts; distortions of the history of other countries, and disrespect to human civilization and the culture and customes of other countries;
2. Disparaging or mocking depictions of revolutionary leaders, heroes, important historical figures, and major domestic and foreign literary works and their main characters;
3. Disparaging depictions of the PLA, people's armed police, the PSB, or the judiciary; depictions of torture of prisoners or of the use of torture to extract confessions from criminals or suspects;
4. Displays of arrogant criminal behavior, detailed depictions of criminal activity, exposure of particular investigative techniques, or leaks of the appearance and voice of witnesses or individuals whose identity should be protected;
5. Calls for religious extremism, provocation of conflict between religions, religious sects, or between believers and non-believers, hurting the feelings of the public;
6. Promotion of palm-reading, fortune-telling, fengshui, divination, exorcism, and other feudal superstitious activity;
7. Mocking depictions of scenes of catastrophe, including major natural disasters, accidents, terrorist incidents, and war;
8. Detailed depictions of promiscuity, rape, incest, necrophilia, prostitution, solicitation, sexual perversion, and masturbation;
9. Depictions or suggestions of sexual activity, sexual process, sexual techniques, and excessive related physical contact;
10. Deliberate displays in which private parts are only obscured by limbs or small coverings;
11. Sexually suggestive or provocative content that leads to sexual thoughts;
12. Promotion of unhealthy content including extramarital affairs, love triangles, one-night stands, sexual abuse, and wife-swapping;
13. Use of "adult film," "pornographic film," "Cat III film," "hidden camera," "indecent exposure," and other provocative words and pictures in the program title or category;
14. Intense scenes of murder, bloodshed, violence, suicide, kidnapping, drug use, gambling, and the occult;
15. Excessively frightening images, text, background music, or sound effects;
16. Detailed depictions of cruelty to animals, or the capture, killing, and consumption of protected animals;
17. Content that violates personal privacy;
18. Depictions of fighting, humiliation, and obscenity affirmatively or in a manner that invites imitation;
19. Promotion of a negative or decadent outlook, world view, or value system, or deliberate exaggeration of the ignorance and backwardness of ethnic groups or social ills;
20. Clips that SARFT has cut from films and TV shows or has prohibited from being broadcast;
21. Content that violates the spirit of the law and regulations.

(3) Internet audio-visual program service providers must improve their program content administration systems and emergency response mechanisms by hiring well-qualified service personnel to review and filter content, with particular attention paid to online music videos, variety shows, film shorts, and animation, as well as "self-shot" (自拍), "hot dancing" (热舞), "pretty girls" (美女), "funny" (搞笑), "original content" (原创), and "netizen reporters" (拍客), to insure that program content does not violate the rules mentioned in parts (1) and (2) of this notice. They must also promptly handle netizen complaints and related matters.

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SARFT's obviously been paying close attention to the wealth of programming on China's video hosts. However, it's what follows in part (4) of the Notice that has caught the attention of the mainstream media.

The Administration has reiterated its control of online programming by applying its current television and film approval process to series shown online. Given the lead time involved in obtaining permission, this provision has the potential to shake up the industry. From The Beijing News:

Major video websites said in interviews that the biggest effect of the Notice would be to limit the broadcast of imported TV series. According to the "permit system" stipulated in the notice, even if websites obtain broadcast rights directly from rights agents in the future, they will have a hard time broadcasting programs that have not previously been show in theaters or on TV. A manager at Tudou said that they are still in the process of reviewing the document, so for the moment it would have no material effect on the website.

OpenV's chief editor Yang said that he had only just read the Notice. He also said that copyright rules were indeed necessary for the Internet, particularly in the area of imported TV series. "However, the Internet really requires an ocean of content, and the approval process for TV stations is relatively slow. If we have to obtain the same permit as a TV station, then the timeliness of the Internet will be lost," Yang said.

Links and Sources

• SARFT (Chinese): Notice on strengthing content management of online audio-visual programs
• The Beijing News (Chinese): Will watching American TV online be stopped?
• Also on Global Voices Advocacy