Supreme Court: Study and formulate normative documents on judicial protection of AI-related cases and data property rights

Caijing News Report, May 27—The State Council Information Office held a series of themed press conferences titled “Starting Strong and Moving Forward in the 14th Five-Year Plan,” introducing relevant information on “Advancing the Overall Law-Based Governance.”

At the press conference, Liu Guixiang, a full-time deputy-ministerial-level member of the Judicial Committee of the Supreme People’s Court and a second-level judge, said that people’s courts will uphold the “two unswerving commitments,” implement the Law on Promoting the Development of the Private Economy, and legally and equally protect the legitimate rights and interests of all types of market entities.

They will focus on addressing issues involving the use of criminal and administrative measures to interfere with economic disputes, particularly problems such as profit-seeking tendencies and illegal out-of-place judicial proceedings, and improve a normalized mechanism for preventing and correcting wrongful and mistaken cases.

They will speed up the issuance of judicial interpretations of the Company Law, promote the construction of a modern enterprise system with Chinese characteristics, emphasize the use of corporate legal systems to legally balance the interests among company shareholders, creditors, and other parties, and in enforcement precisely implement credit-based sanctions, improve the credit restoration mechanism, and establish an integrity-oriented approach.

They will consolidate and expand China’s advantages in fair and efficient foreign-related adjudication, and focus on building preferred locations for resolving intellectual property rights and international commercial disputes.

They will conduct in-depth research on new types of cases such as virtual currencies and cross-border finance, and formulate as soon as possible judicial interpretations on civil compensation related to insider trading and market manipulation, to safeguard the steady operation of capital markets and effectively protect the legitimate rights and interests of small and medium investors.

In response to new business forms in the digital economy, they will study and develop normative documents regarding cases involving artificial intelligence and the judicial protection of data property rights. They will improve judicial rules on data ownership, data trading, and AI-generated content, promote the deep integration of digital technology with the real economy, help improve the basic institutional system for data elements, and promote the construction of an integrated data market that is open, shared, secure, and safe. (CCTV News)