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Digital content sector lacks legal framework
The thriving digital content industry requires a solid legal framework and good infrastructure to develop further, IT analysts told a seminar in HCN City last week.
Hoang Trong Duong, deputy director general of the Department of Information Technology (DIC), said the digital content industry was growing at over 50 percent a year, earning revenues of 182 million USD last year.
The industry’s workforce was growing at over 26 percent, with the sector marking content for the internet employing the most number, he said.
Four areas that generate large revenues were content for mobile phones, online games, advertising, and internet. Mobile phone content accounted for the largest chunk of revenues, he said.
Hoang Le Minh, general director of the Vietnam National Institute of the Software and Digital Content Industry (NISCI), predicted the industry to generate revenues 480 million USD in 2010 and 4.4 billion in 2020, against 182 million USD last year.
Duong said, however, the Government was yet to develop a comprehensive legal framework for the industry or clearly define newly-evolving concepts like virtual property.
There were no laws to protect personal information on the internet or ban unauthorised access, he said, and penalties for violations were not clear or severe enough.
Minh said there were no systems in place to prevent violation of intellectual property rights on the internet.
Duong said the information security infrastructure had not received much attention.
Hoang Trong Hieu deputy director of VTC Game , said there were no provisions in the law to penalize use of software to hack into online games.
VNA
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