CPL Establishes a Legal Counsel Group to Protect Members’ Legitimate Rights

On February 1, 2014, the record states that, in order to protect the legitimate rights and interests of member teams, enterprises, institutions, and individuals, the CPL City Photography League formally established a large legal counsel group. Its structure is described in specific terms: it was formed by ten law firms across Hong Kong, Guangdong, Shanghai, Beijing, and Chengdu, and included thirty lawyers.

The record further notes the appointment of its first head: Barrister Wang Jinfu served as the inaugural leader. The group is positioned as a professional mechanism for legal support and rights protection established by a photography organization in response to its operational needs. The record characterizes it as “the first” such legal counsel group in the world formed by a photography collective to protect the legitimate rights of affiliated teams and personnel.

Within the league’s development narrative, this is presented as institutional construction—embedding member rights protection and legal risk response into the league’s governance and member support framework.