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A Beijing trip reportA Beijing trip reportPosted Feb 29, 2008 6:16 UTC (Fri) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)In reply to: A Beijing trip report by giraffedata Parent article: A Beijing trip report The USA did not recognize foreign copyrights or patents until 1891. As Lawrence Lessig points out, we were a pirate nation when it paid, only deciding to change our ways when it became profitable to do so. Charles Dickens was the most-read author in America in his day. American publishers never paid him a dime. Compared to American behavior, the Chinese are quite respectable of American copyrights, because they sometimes pay, and sometimes beats never.
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Copyrights in China Posted Feb 29, 2008 17:19 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link] Yes, any suggestion that Chinese people should respect copyright on Windows and Linux because it's the moral thing to do is just wrong. Copyright isn't a basic human right, it's just business.Any serious discussion about this Chinese copyright problem is based on getting Chinese people to do what's in China's interest. For example, the USA may be willing to offer import access to China in exchange for working copyrights. Incidentally, though I'm really fuzzy on this, I believe the Chinese government has already technically accorded the respect of copyrights the other countries asked for and the problem today is just Chinese people breaking Chinese law and getting away with it.
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