China Blasted Over Piracy
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The Chinese government has drawn heavy criticism by two US business groups urging China to crack down on its growing piracy market and focus on protecting intellectual property rights in the country.
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China promised on Tuesday to get tougher on copyright and patent violations, a long-awaited move that may ease U.S. concerns over rampant piracy believed to cost foreign businesses billions of dollars every year.
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A state media report says Chinese law enforcement nabbed and destroyed millions of pirated software discs, CDs and DVDs in a campaign against intellectual property theft.
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Music industry giants including Warner  Music Group Corp. are suing Yahoo! China for alleged copyright  infringement by providing links to unlicensed music, trade  organization IFPI said on Wednesday.
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Association seeks monetary damages from alleged film pirates.
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BMW and DaimlerChrysler are threatening legal action against alleged Chinese copies of their cars, a report says.
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China vowed on Sunday to improve  the "grave situation" of music piracy in the country, as it  hosted the annual music industry event here to learn and  exchange ideas with companies from around the world.
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China's purveyors of counterfeit goods may bode ill for the country at large
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U.S. companies are suffering  "unacceptably high" losses in China due to counterfeiting and  piracy five years after that country joined the World Trade  Organization, U.S. trade officials said on Monday.
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China is struggling to contain a surge  in online piracy, specifically cases involving the illegal  downloading of movies, music and books, and needs tougher  punishments, a senior official said on Thursday.
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SHENZHEN, China  - Pirated software worth $500  million, including counterfeit Microsoft and Symantec products,  has been seized in a long-running joint probe by Chinese police  and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, officials from  both countries said on Tuesday.
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China is cracking down on music sites. Really.
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The US considers complaining to the WTO about what it says is Chinese intellectual piracy.
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BEIJING  - Adding to pressure for China to stop rampant product piracy, two major U.S. business groups complained Thursday that abuses are getting worse and warned that lack of patent and copyright protection is hurting high-tech investment.
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China is becoming increasingly alarmed that Microsoft is winning the lion&#39;s share of too many government contracts to supply software.
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BEIJING The Chinese government said on Monday that it seized two million fake compact discs in the first half of 2004, acting on US pressure to end counterfeiting of software and movies.
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CHINA BEIJING -- Chinese law enforcement agencies destroyed nearly 13 million pirated compact discs, DVDs, and computer software yesterday in the government's latest campaign to curtail rampant theft of intellectual property, state media reported. The destroyed items were confiscated in the first half of an ongoing 100-day nationwide campaign against piracy, the Xinhua News Agency said. Police seized the items ...