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Category Archives: IP and Law
Skinhua and transparent military procurement
Bread, circuses and babes! China’s state-owned news agency Xinhua is consistently good at one thing: copying photos of hot women from other websites and magazines. The image reproduced here is from a Xinhua photo gallery called Bai Ling on lingerie … Continue reading
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Baidu: “Are you sure you want to download illegal music?”
Baidu has added an extra click-through layer to its MP3 search function in an apparent attempt to distance itself from allegations of piracy. Previously, clicking on an MP3 search result would download the file directly, but now it leads you … Continue reading
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ESWN: China Daily’s unpaid translator
Once again, those consummate journalists at China Daily have stolen a translation from ESWN. ESWN’s translation of the Southern Weekend investigative report, The Death of a Hair Salon Girl, appears on China Daily as The death of a soulful hair … Continue reading
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Music and movie pirates: if you can’t lick ’em…
Ellen Sander writes about movie piracy for Women of China magazine.
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Tagged Ellen Sander, IPR, piracy, Women of China
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Clinton condoms and condominiums
Presidential safe sex From the LA Times: A new line of condoms is grabbing headlines in China even as its sparks a debate about trademark law and promotion campaigns. The products’ brand names: “Clinton” and “Lewinsky.” The condoms are sold … Continue reading
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Shanghai Daily and Danwei
Shanghai Daily’s new website Shanghai’s flagship English newspaper, the Shanghai Daily has a new website. It is worth a visit, especially because they seem to be keen on covering the type of stories that Danwei has traditionally followed, such as … Continue reading
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Why we aren’t building a “harmonious Danwei”
Liu Hongbo (刘洪波) looks back at the village feuds of his youth and suggests that a ‘harmonious society’ is not something that local governments can necessarily construct.
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China Daily pirates a blog, and also says “Strong progress in IPR protection campaign”
Those loveable editors at the state-owned China Daily’s website just can’t resist the copy and paste method of content creation. They have once again copied an entire article from a blog, this time from Hong Kong’s hyperactively prolific ESWN. The … Continue reading
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State-owned website pirates Danwei
China Economic Net, which is is a website under the state-owned Economic Daily (经济日报), has pirate-published a Danwei article verbatim: China Economic Net: The final week of super voice girls Danwei: The final week of TV sensation Super Voice Girls … Continue reading
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How a good cop became a fake cop
Liu Limin in court A murder trial in Taiyuan was a popular subject of editorials on 24 August. The murder attracted attention because both the murderer and the victim were cops, but the chief point of interest is the effort … Continue reading
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