Category Archives: Intellectual Property

Copyright Society to reprint out-of-print texts

A plan to reprint orphaned works draws criticism from publishers.

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Royalty fee for a Chinese tweet: 25 yuan

A royalty check of 25 yuan for a reprinted Chinese tweet.

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Taxi vs Taxi

Two films about Beijing taxi drivers have some remarkable similarities.

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Who holds the rights to an ancient character?

Hengyuanxiang is suing an independent businessman over the trademark rights to the bronze character for ‘sheep’.

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A crowd-sourced translation of The Lost Symbol: is this copyright infringement?

Translation website Yeeyan has organized a netizen effort to translate Dan Brown’s new novel. But does their project violate his intellectual property rights?

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CCTV.com plagiarism

Plagiarism amongst giants

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Government aviation website rips off blog

A government website rips off a blog post by a well known consultant

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Johnny Walker beats Black Label knock-off

Diageo, the owner of the Johnny Walker liquor brand, has been awarded 1.25 million yuan in an intellectual infringement lawsuit against the maker of Polonius, a Black Label copy.

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Kong Yiji and the question of software piracy

Peter Bowang Lu writes at FTChinese.com that Chinese consumers act like Kong Yiji when they pirate software.

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Li Ning lights China’s Olympic flame

Chinese retailer Li Ning (李宁) is the biggest winner of the 2008 Beijing Olympics so far, after its founder and chairman – whose name the company bears – lit the cauldron at the final act of last night’s opening ceremony.

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