Category Archives: IP and Law

Degrees, real life, and April Fools

Posted on 2007-03-31 by Joel Martinsen

Residents of Pinghe County, Fujian Province (福建省平和县) cannot marry or get a driver’s license without a middle-school diploma. In Beijing, professor Li Baoyuan (李宝元) complains that parents are bringing their children to grad school entrance exams.

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Yu Quanyu: the man behind the rhetoric

Posted on 2007-03-23 by Joel Martinsen

Yu Quanyu (喻权域) interviewed in Southern People Weekly (南方人物周刊) about his anti-sedition proposal. Also, comments from Ran Yunfei (冉云飞).

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Prostitutes and language mavens

Posted on 2007-03-22 by Joel Martinsen

陪客 is a contested term in a Chinese reference book.

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Mr. Sun, I’ll need to see some ID

Posted on 2007-03-20 by Joel Martinsen

China’s national laws on resident documentation do not compel citizens to show ID except in certain limited cases.

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Treason as farce: Yuan Weishi on Yu Quanyu’s seditious speech proposal

Posted on 2007-03-18 by Joel Martinsen

Yuan Weishi (袁伟时) talks about the anti-seditious language proposal (惩治汉奸言论法) put forth by Yu Quanyu (喻权域). What makes a ‘hanjian’?

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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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Euthanasia blog

Posted on 2007-03-14 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Sina yesterday published an article about a woman named Li Yan who writes a blog called A call for a euthanasia law (in Chinese). According to her blog, Li developed what she “super cancer” an infant. Now 28, she has … Continue reading →

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From Hollywood to Haute Couture
by Michael Rank

Posted on 2007-02-23 by Joel Martinsen

Michael Rank reviews a number of knock-off trademark applications: Chanel, George Clooney, Lenny Kravitz, YSL, Warren Beatty, and Lancome.

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by Michael Rank

Oscar season means good pirate DVDs

Posted on 2007-02-15 by Jeremy Goldkorn

The Me Old China website notes: Awards season is the most wonderful time of year in Shanghai, when every bootleg DVD is crystal clear and we don’t have to wait three months for a good copy of “The Queen.” Columbia, … Continue reading →

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Silk Street divides and conquers foreign brands

Posted on 2007-01-30 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Silk Street vendors awarded for their famous attention to intellectual property Good Brand, Bad Brandby Maya Alexandri China’s venerable tradition of playing the barbarians against each other looks alive and thriving in the latest round of legal wrangling between Beijing’s … Continue reading →

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