Category Archives: Business

Software piracy plummets to inconceivably low rate

Posted on 2007-05-18 by maya

He wants booty. For once, everyone agrees that China is making strides in protecting intellectual property. The Business Software Alliance (BSA) just released a study showing that software piracy in China has dropped 10% since 2003. And China’s State Intellectual … Continue reading →

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Equality for foreign periodicals, but there’s a GAPP

Posted on 2007-05-16 by maya

Liu Binjie, the man from G.A.P.P. As mentioned earlier on Danwei, the International Federation for Periodical Press (FIPP) just concluded its 36th World Magazine Conference in Beijing. At the conference, GAPP official Liu Binjie promised foreign periodicals that China will … Continue reading →

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Blame Canada!

Posted on 2007-04-18 by maya

Yesterday, the State Council News Office held a press conference at which the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) news spokesperson Wang Ziqiang (王自强) responded to the WTO cases that the United States filed last week. China’s position is both predictably … Continue reading →

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Property rights in China: equal for all?

Posted on 2007-04-16 by maya

Does a sausage seller have property rights?

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China Businesscast: ChinesePod

Posted on 2007-04-13 by Robert Ness

Ken and Jenny (pictured right) deliver the Chinese language to your iTunes In this episode I interview Ken of ChinesePod, the language podcast that set the standard for language learning podcasts. Ken explains how one builds a business around a … Continue reading →

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Chinese smoking makes bibles more expensive

Posted on 2007-04-13 by Jeremy Goldkorn

From Fons Tuinstra: Heavy smoking makes bibles too expensive Chinese men are smoking more heavily and that has made the bibles worldwide more expensive, I read in a rather Christian newspaper from the Netherlands. For cigarettes the same kind of … Continue reading →

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CNboo spam

Posted on 2007-04-11 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Spam about CNBoo, China You TV (a shameless Youtube knock-off) and their spamming stock emails.

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The Economic Observer: Sino-French joint venture stealing Yellow River water?

Posted on 2007-04-05 by Jeremy Goldkorn

This is from a recent Time magazine article: A thirst for growth … France is the land of public service par excellence, where a whiff of sacrilege still adheres to the very notion of privatizing basic infrastructure. Trains, hospitals, universities … Continue reading →

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Administrative fees or protection money?

Posted on 2007-04-04 by Joel Martinsen

Chengguan (城管) and other government agents take “service fees” from vendors and then turn a blind eye to the regulations.

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Viacom vs Youtube: good for the small guys?

Posted on 2007-03-16 by Jeremy Goldkorn

While your correspondent believes that traditional media companies should find constructive ways of meet the realities of new media rather than suing Youtube for copyright infringement issues as Viacom has just done, the case may have a beneficial trickle down … Continue reading →

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