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Intellectual Property Law in Chinese Civilization

William P. Alford (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

236 Seiten

1997
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8047-2960-4 (ISBN)

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This sweeping study examines the law of intellectual property in Chinese civilization from imperial days to the present. It uses materials drawn from law, the arts and other fields as well as extensive interviews with Chinese and foreign officials, business people, lawyers, and perpetrators and victims of "piracy."

This study examines the law of intellectual property in China from imperial times to the present. It draws on history, politics, economics, sociology, and the arts, and on interviews with officials, business people, lawyers, and perpetrators and victims of 'piracy'. The author asks why the Chinese, with their early bounty of scientific and artistic creations, are only now devising legal protection for such endeavors and why such protection is more rhetoric than reality on the Chinese mainland. In the process, he sheds light on the complex relation between law and political culture in China. The book goes on to examine recent efforts in the People's Republic of China to develop intellectual property law, and uses this example to highlight the broader problems with China's program of law reform.

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Zusatzinfo	1 illus
Verlagsort	Palo Alto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	290 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Wirtschaftsrecht ► Urheberrecht
ISBN-10	0-8047-2960-3 / 0804729603
ISBN-13	978-0-8047-2960-4 / 9780804729604
Zustand	Neuware