Doing electronic publishing on the Internet without having a Vietnamese internet domain name shall be fined heavily

According to Article 31 of Decree No. 119/2020/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, fines for violations in requirements for electronic publishing and release of electronic publications are specified as follows:

- A fine from VND 10,000,000 to VND 20,000,000 for the action below:

+ Doing electronic publishing or releasing electronic publications but failure to ensure sufficient capacity in terms of equipment, technology and technical human resources to administer and manage the electronic publishing process;

+ Failure to take technical measures as prescribed to prevent illegal copying or interference of the contents of an electronic publication;

+ Doing electronic publishing or releasing electronic publications on the Internet without having a Vietnamese internet domain name;

+ Releasing an electronic publication without a legal document proving the consent of the copyright owner for each publication title;

+ Failure to take technical measures to prevent interference with the publication's contents or failure to remove the illegal publication at the request of the competent authority;

+ Releasing an electronic publication in contravention of the approved complete manuscript content or issuing a publishing license for each publication title.

- A fine from VND 30,000,000 to VND 50,000,000 for the action below:

+ Publishing and releasing electronic publications together with the application of technologies that posts security risks to the electronic devices;

+ Supplementing information that the users of electronic publications do not request, except for information permitted by law or with the consent of the publishing authority;

+ Illegally interfering with the content or form of an electronic publication to falsify the contents or committing illegal acts on each publication title;

+ Failure to comply with requests of the competent authority to stop publishing or releasing electronic publications or to remove or prevent users from accessing a part of the content or the whole publication that shows signs of violation of law;

+ Releasing electronic publications without confirmation of registration of release of electronic publications by the competent authority.

- A fine from VND 100,000,000 to VND 200,000,000 for the action below:

+ Releasing on the electronic devices the publication subject to decision on release suspension, recall, ban from circulation, or destruction of the publication title;

+ Doing electronic publishing without a written confirmation of operation registration by the competent authority.

View more details at Decree No. 119/2020/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, effective from December 01, 2020.

Le Vy

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