Tag Archives: Copyright Law PR of China

Music Industry Alert: Dissonant Draft of China’s Copyright Law Might Change Tune

Articles 46 and 48 draft version of the amendment of the Copyright Law of March 2012 sounded false in the ears of many musicians in China and abroad. After their respective protests and that of music industry interest groups the … Continue reading

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Beijing News Victorious Over iPad app Developer Minesage, But What About The Limitations on Rights?

Beijing Haidian District People’s Court ruled that software developer Minesage, who offered an iPad application to read newspapers, must stop these activities and pay 100,000 Renminbi (around 10,000 Euro).Hao Nan of the China Daily reports here that the Beijing News … Continue reading

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TGIF, But What Happened To This Author’s Moral Rights On The IPR.gov.cn Site?

星期五: Friday Thank Goodness It’s Friday I just finished a blog post on Professor Ken Shao’s interesting article, see here, which ironically is about morality in copyright, and now I see his article republished on the site of Intellectual Property … Continue reading

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Sex, Lies And The Right of Integrity of the Grimm Brothers’ Heirs

The (Hong Kong ) Standard has an Agence France-Press article ‘Sex-crazed dwarfs get pulled‘ about China Friendship Publishing Company and China Media Time that copied the erotic adaption of the Grimm brothers’ Fairy Tales by the Japanese duo Kiryu Misao. … Continue reading

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How To Get The Copyright When You Commission a Work in China?

Xu Hui-Meng of the Henan University of Finance and Economics, Zhengzhou, wrote in May of 2010 the article: ‘The research on the nature of the agreement of the ownership of the copyright of the commissioned works‘ for the Journal of … Continue reading

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China’s New Article 4 Copyright Law: Censored Works Are Copyrighted Too

How would China change its article 4 Copyright Law after the panel decision in the World Trade Organization’s Dispute Settlement (DS 362) case determined that that provision was not compatible with China’s obligations under the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects … Continue reading

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Google Ready To Apologize But Implies There’s No Reason To Apologize

Gilian Wong wrote an article for Canadian Press called “China writers’ group says Google ready to apologize, work out deal on book scanning dispute”. Read more here. Hat tip to Jeff Roberts’ McGill’s CIPP IP ‘News This Week‘. So Google … Continue reading

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Slow As A Turtle? Copyright Protection Expiration in China: Lifetime Plus Fifty

IP Dragon‘s feline friend has an interesting post December 31, 2008, about the expired protection of copyrights for authors that died seventy years ago, including the painter Wang Zhen (1867-1938), read Mr Jeremy Phillips’ article for IP Kat here. According … Continue reading

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