Category Archives: IP and Law

Spoofing fights back

Danwei Noon Report is a daily roundup of new and old media coverage about China from Chinese and English sources. Can’t stop the steamed buns – image from LifeMage Fighting for the right to spoof Chinese Internet users continue to … Continue reading →

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Private property and Hugo Chavez

Danwei Noon Report is a daily roundup of new and old media coverage about China from Chinese and English sources. Communist fashion victims Chavez and Manh in Beijing Hugo Chavez, or Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias, President of Venezuela as Xinhua … Continue reading →

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Karaoke fees and interest rates

Danwei Noon Report is a daily roundup of new and old media coverage about China from Chinese and English sources. Would you like some parasites with your escargot? Interest rate hikeXinhua’s top story on their Chinese website is an opinion … Continue reading →

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Online video tainted by spoofs

Translation from Qiu Ao, and bits from the Legal Mirror about the SARFT regulations on personal internet video.

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Net activism against hunting endangered animals and Dell

SOD Milk, not what you think August 14, 2006 – Danwei Noon Report, a daily roundup of new and old media coverage about China, from Chinese and English sources. • From the Non-violent Resistance blog: Internet Opinion Shapes Alternative “Political … Continue reading →

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Liquids on Chinese airlines

The international news coverage of the terrorist threat from liquid explosives has not mentioned one interesting point: China has banned passengers from carrying liquids on to departing flights for several years already.

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The benefits of piracy
by Kaiser Kuo

Piracy as a window on the western world.

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by Kaiser Kuo

Olympic exercises, far-sighted weather forecasts, and a thug judge

Headlines from today’s papers (2006.08.09) feature a weather forecast for the 2008 Olympic Games and a Tianjin judge who beat up a Beijing lawyer.

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Rabies, condoms and bunkers: July 31 China media roundup

Image from Xinhua’s top Chinese story today: Answering hot questions about the Harmonious Society A daily roundup of mainstream media and blog coverage of China, from Chinese and foreign sources: • Netease reports that man named Li Chenyong from Changle … Continue reading →

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Crazy Stone and piracy

Shanghaiist has compiled a report on Crazy Stone (疯狂石头), the low budget Warner Bros. film that is both generating buzz and doing very well at the box office, despite its Sichuan dialect dialogue. Excerpt: Warner Bros. is taking an aggressive … Continue reading →

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