Category Archives: IP and Law

Limited IPR relief for Nike, Adidas and Hollywood studios

Posted on 2007-07-27 by maya

Movie title or next step on IPR enforcement? The past two weeks have seen an interesting assortment of IPR developments. In a fresh installment of what seems to be the never-ending saga of the Silk Street market, enforcement authorities raided … Continue reading →

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Asia Times: guilty of plagiarism?

Posted on 2007-07-13 by maya

She’s not the only one working in the “grey” economy Recently, your correspondent wrote a Danwei post about a study measuring the size of China’s “grey” economy, and its failure to take into account certain types of “grey” income earned … Continue reading →

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China, US getting nowhere fast in the WTO

Posted on 2007-07-12 by maya

China “strikes hard” against counterfeits No news isn’t good news when it comes to the two IPR-related WTO cases that the US filed against China on April 11. According to WTO procedures, the parties were to have had 60 days … Continue reading →

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Fisking The People’s Daily

Posted on 2007-07-12 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Wang Xiaofeng fisks a People’s Daily editorial on Zheng Xiaoyu’s execution.

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Baidu in the music business?

Posted on 2007-07-05 by Jeremy Goldkorn

A major reason for search engine Baidu’s popularity is its efficient MP3 search function, which allows Chinese music fans to easily find downloadable files of popular music. Of course most of this music is pirated, but Baidu’s responsibilities is not … Continue reading →

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Shanxi slaves and the Labor Contract Law

Posted on 2007-06-30 by maya

Zhang Xubo, whose legs were severed in a Shanxi “black” brick kiln in 2002 On Friday, June 29, the National People’s Congress voted to pass the Labor Contract Law. Media coverage, including articles in China Daily, The New York Times … Continue reading →

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China’s unfavorable copyright imbalance

Posted on 2007-06-27 by maya

GAPP just released a report on the state of China’s publishing industries in 2006. The report concluded that, while China’s copyright-related trade has made strides, the “unfavorable copyright trade imbalance” hasn’t fundamentally reversed. In support of this conclusion, the report … Continue reading →

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Nokia embroiled in “Typo-gate”

Posted on 2007-06-19 by Joel Martinsen

Nokia phones are targeted by a consumer who says they distort Chinese characters. Malice? Or just a trade-off for a poor-resolution, 399-yuan phone?

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Copyright protection for online content

Posted on 2007-06-18 by maya

Beijing Business Today recently reported on China’s accession and ratification of two U.N. Internet-related treaties, the WIPO Copyright Treaty and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty. Together, the two treaties require signatory countries to provide copyright protection for computer programs, … Continue reading →

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Legislating sexual morality in Guangdong

Posted on 2007-06-01 by maya

Model Ma Yanli, rumored to have been a mistress of the former Party secretary of Shanghai Guangdong’s legislature is currently considering a draft law that would prohibit mistresses, known as “er nai”. Tucked within a bill called “Women’s Rights Protection … Continue reading →

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