Tag Archives: IPR

Lei Feng, serving the people in the 21st Century

Lei Feng has a microblog!

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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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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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Real men have problems, too

Men’s Time (熟男志), an internal publication of Tongji Male Hospital.

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Johnnie Worker and his red labial

A pirate Johnnie Walker bottle of whiskey.

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China Businesscast: Indigenous Innovation in China

A discussion about the relationship between intellectual property and “indigenous innovation” in China.

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China Businesscast: China’s New Oriental and ETS, a classic IPR case study

A talk with IPR attorney Maya Alexandri on what IPR-related policies foreign companies operating in China should adopt.

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Three stories about intellectual property

Zhou Zhenglong (周正龙) vs. Science magazine (《科学》); Zhan Qizhi (詹启智) vs. the Internet; and Novoland (九州) makes use of the Open Gaming License.

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