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06 January 2013
Chinese Nobel Prize-Winner Says We Need Censorship Like We Need Airport Security
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This year's winner of the Nobel prize in literature , the Chinese writer Mo Yan, was a controversial choice. Some saw him as too clos...
08 December 2012
How Do You Say 'Twitter Joke Trial' In Chinese?
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Techdirt wrote about how the UK's Twitter Joke conviction dragged its slow way through the various appeals before finally being resol...
15 July 2012
Russia And China Both Want To 'Protect Children'; Both Want To Do It By Increasing Censorship
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As expected , Russia has passed a law that will allow Web sites to be blacklisted, ostensibly to "protect children". According...
23 June 2012
After India And Brazil, Now China Takes Steps To Allow Cheap Versions Of Patented Drugs
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In recent months, Techdirt has reported on an important development in the world of medicine, as both India and Brazil have allowed loca...
10 June 2012
Chinese Microblog Service Introduces Five-Strike Program To Block 'Rumors' And 'Evil Teachings'
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In a country where the mainstream media is tightly controlled, Chinese microblogs have provided an invaluable way for millions of people ...
20 May 2012
One Area Where China Should Definitely Stop Ripping Off The West: Copyright Law
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When it comes to ACTA and TPP, China is the elephant in the room -- or maybe that should be the dragon in the room. For without China's...
27 April 2012
Chinese Copyright Proposal Would Allow Compulsory Licensing Of Music After Three Months
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As China continues to climb up the economic rankings (it became number two last year, in case you missed it) its domestic policy begins t...
23 March 2012
Why is Firefox - and Open Source - a Disaster in China?
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Like many people, I've been tracking the steady ascent of Google Chrome - and corresponding decline of Microsoft's Internet Expl...
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13 March 2012
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As Michael Geist and others have pointed out, ACTA is the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement without the main sources of counterfeits b...
17 February 2012
Would Steve Jobs Have Approved? Artist Offers His Apple Monologue, Performance Rights, For Free
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As sales of its products soar, and its share price continues to climb, Apple has come under increasing scrutiny because of the working co...
13 February 2012
ACTA Update V
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The European Commission's defence of ACTA has essentially two prongs. The first is that "ACTA changes nothing for Europeans&quo...
21 December 2011
Do We Really Need Copyright For Academic Publishing?
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QuestionCopyright has an interesting article about the role that open access might play in opening up China to new ideas . But what really...
19 November 2011
E-Publishing The Chinese Way: Very Fast And Very Cheap
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Increasingly, publishers are joining the music and film industries in bemoaning the effects of piracy on the sales of digital products – a...
27 October 2011
Just Because Something's Fake Doesn't Mean It Can't Be Innovative
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The term "shanzhai" literally means a fortified mountain village, and originally meant those places in China that were outside g...
13 August 2011
Shutting Down... the West
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The pundits have only just begun to offer their weighty thoughts on the subject, but already one of the key threads to emerge in discussions...
04 March 2011
Putting China on the Innovation Map
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Rather patronisingly, the West has tended to regard China as little better than a copy-cat in advanced technologies, not least on the Web. ...
18 January 2011
Of China, Piracy and Open Source
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A few months ago, I spent quite a few words disembowelling a BSA report on piracy that made some highly-simplistic assumptions and calculati...
15 November 2010
Beyond a Joke: On the Road to China
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By now, you will have read all about the #twitterjoketrial . But you may not have come across this story : On 17 of October, Wang Yi retwee...
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07 October 2010
Back to the Future Again: 2020 FLOSS 3.0
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Yesterday I wrote about my experiences last week at the Open World Forum. As I noted, the two-day event closed with the presentation of the...
06 October 2010
The World of the Open World Forum
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Last week I went along to the Open World Forum in Paris. By that, I don't mean to imply I just bowled along there on the off-chance it m...
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