A sigh of relief was breathed by crazy iPad fans across the country yesterday after a Shanghai court rejected Proview's request for a ban on sales and suspended their current lawsuit over the iPad trademark. more ›

Whoa: in an unprecedented move for a Chinese company, Youku announced their new copyright identification management platform on their blog today. Needless to say, Youku is the first Chinese company to attempt regulation of intellectual property rights on the internet. We know China's always "cracking down" on copyright infringement, or at least talking about it (remember the Expo IPR expo?), but this looks like the most legitimate attempt to enforce intellectual property rights we've seen yet. more ›

Are we finally about to see our own RIAA-like cases here in China? A CCTV affiliate called China International Television Corp. has now sued six online video service providers in the Beijing Haidian District Court. It is asking for 16.2 million RMB in compensation for the illegal broadcasting of its shows online. According to China Tech News, CCTV claims that its distribution of TV soap operas has declined last year thanks to these online video sites. But a representative of one of the providers, ku6.com, said that most of the videos on their website were uploaded by Internet users - a defense that hasn't really had a history of working well in the States. Welp, even if our favorite vid sites shut down, maybe this also means we'll be getting something similar to Hulu for Chinese soap operas soon. more ›

While the system seems pretty cool, we feel like we've definitely seen that OS somewhere else. more ›

By Matt Doyle more ›