1998年7月10日是星期六,大多数国人都在享受周末假日。最高人民法院与目前中国最有影响力的新闻媒体中央电视台合作,在覆盖最广的第一套节目中直播了一次开庭审判——一起著作权纠纷案被搬上荧屏。此案的原告方为中国10家著名的电影制片厂,他们共同委托北京一家律师事务所的三位律师为代理人;被告方共有三家,分别是涉嫌侵犯著作权的版权代理和音像出版机构。北京市第一中级人民 July 10, 1998 is Saturday, and most people are enjoying weekend breaks. The Supreme People’s Court, in cooperation with China’s most influential news media, CCTV, broadcast a trial on the first of its most extensive programs - a case of copyright dispute being brought to the screen. The plaintiffs in this case were 10 well-known movie studios in China. They commissioned three lawyers from a Beijing law firm to act as their agents. There were three defendants, namely copyright agents and audio-visual publishing agencies suspected of copyright infringement. Beijing’s first middle-class people