Owen Fletcher of the WSJ reports, "It wasn’t as dramatic as in years past, when intellectual property authorities used steam-rollers instead of shredding machines, but what a recent Chinese anti-piracy activity lacked in heavy machinery it more than made up for in quantity."
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It's practically impossible to enforce intellectual property rights in China, which holds the heavyweight title for the world's best pirates (of goods, not actual pirating), and that's espeically true on the 'net. It's even harder to enforce copyrights when even the courts won't admit that rights are even being infringed: a Beijing court ruled yesterday that Baidu's MP3 search engine was not violating any rights by offering downloads. 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 ›

Oh my: apparently China is very concerned over the illegal and improper use of licensed emblems for the Shanghai Expo. In fact, they're so concerned about intellectual property theft that they decided to have a mini expo about it. And you can go too! more ›

China Tech News reports that about 80 copyright holders will be ganging up on Tudou for copyright infringement. Some of these companies in the alliance include Joy.cn, Beijing Polybona Film Distribution, Beijing Orange Sky Entertainment Group and SFS Emperor and are said to be suing for RMB10 million. Tudou is a video sharing website that is bigger than YouTube in China showing 1.2 billion videos each month including bootlegged versions of TV shows and clips from Hollywood movies. Tudou, possibly in response to this suit, will be launching a reporting system for copyright owners after Spring Festival that they are currently testing. Of course the alliance could be fishing for some of that $85 million they raised in funding, most of which is apparently just sitting in the bank. more ›