China Publicly Burns 5.2 Million Pirated Books, Compact Discs
China's anti-piracy authorities organised public burnings of 5.2 million pirated books and compact discs Monday morning in several localities across China, Xinhua news agency reported. The anti-piracy...
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Digital piracy clampdown in China? This time it's actually happening
After numerous false starts and hollow pledges over the years, it looks like a huge clampdown on digital piracy in China is actually happening this time, attacking endemic pirating of TV shows, movies,...
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Chinese netizens' double standard towards copyright - Online poll
Baidu, China's biggest search engine, is under fire for copyright violation. The call for copyright protection received almost universal support from netizens. Yet, when the government cracked down P2P...
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How 'technology transfer', IP losses, and spying killed Motorola's China heyday
Motorola's fall from prominence in China has been huge, and quite swift. Only a decade ago, Motorola was a 'best friend' of China, who believed in its growth - but now, many of its former suppliers...
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Copying & Localization: Dairy Queen, Mango Queen, and TCBY
Lessons from Dairy Queen, Mango Queen, and TCBY on the sometimes fuzzy line between copying a product and localizing a product. Copyright and trademark issues are big concerns in China, but sometimes...
View ArticleChina punishes Baidu for music downloads
China's ministry of culture is to punish search engine company Baidu for providing illegal music downloads, a move that may hit its soaring share price. Xinhua, China's official news agency, reported...
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Three Chinese Arrested For Leaking Apple iPad 2
A court in China has decided to sentence the three employees to prison terms ranging from 12 to 18 months but to pay fines ranging from $4,000 to $23,000. It seems that only two were working for...
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Youku sells out to Wallstreet, signs deal with Warner Bros.
Youku Inc has agreed with Warner Bros. Entertainment's local joint venture to offer pay per view movies on its newly launched online paid content platform, Youku said on Tuesday. Under a three-year...
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In the name of good taste: China puts Lady Gaga, Katy Perry and Backstreet...
A notice from the ministry said the songs had not been submitted for approval. A 2009 directive designed to tackle "poor taste and vulgar content" as well as copyright violations said all hosted tracks...
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Police arrests shop worker at funeral gift shop in Chinatown, NYC
The items, mostly copies of luxury objects, inside the little shop in downtown Manhattan are made of thin cardboard and might not even pass muster deep in the background of a movie set. But that did...
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Elaine's picture used without permission on Chinese halloween costumes
Marc van der Chijs, Shanghai expat best known as being co-founder of Tudou, received quite the surprise a short time ago when his wife discovered a very familiar little girl on the packaging of a...
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Official Says 90% of China's Cultural Works Are Imitations
At the "2011 China Copyright Conference" held yesterday, General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP) chief Liu Binjie said that most art and cultural works produced in China are unoriginal,...
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Apple opens 5,000th store in Kunming, a city of 6 million
This past weekend, Apple Inc. completed an experimental market saturation campaign in southwest China's Yunnan Province. The two-year effort concluded when the consumer electronics giant opened its...
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Tesla China entry held up by trademark squatter
Tesla's plans to sell cars in China this year have hit a roadblock from some guy in Southern China who claims to own Chinese rights to the Tesla name, according to a report today by Reuters. Not only...
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Baidu sued for alleged online video piracy
Baidu, Inc., China's largest search engine, is being sued for providing illegal links to and pirated broadcast of online videos, according to a joint campaign against video piracy launched on...
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