Copyrights in China

Copyrights in China

Posted Feb 29, 2008 17:19 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954)
In reply to: A Beijing trip report by JoeBuck
Parent article: A Beijing trip report

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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