Internet is battlefield for intellectual property

The internet is the main battlefield for copyright protection in China because of the large number of users, rich application of works and rapid growth of the digital economy, a senior official from the country's copyright authority said on Tuesday.

The scale of the country's digital economy ranks second in the world, said Zhao Xiuling, deputy director of the Copyright Department of the National Copyright Administration.

Of the top 20 global internet companies last year, 11 were in the United States and nine were in China, she said.