Beijing court rules against pirate retailers
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The owners of a Beijing DVD show were convicted Monday of offering pirated movies. Fines and mandatory removal of the offending material were the order of the day.
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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 ...
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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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AN FRANCISCO, Aug. 19 - Affirming a lower court decision, a federal appellate court ruled Thursday that the distributors of software used by millions of people to exchange music files over the Internet cannot be held liable for aiding ...
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Lacoste, the French maker of polo shirts with a widely recognised crocodile emblem, has won a copyright infringement case against a department store in central China.
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Creaky banking and postal systems are conspiring against Chinese shoppers snapping up books and cosmetics over the Internet, holding back a market that has lured the likes of eBay and Amazon.
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SHANGHAI, China  -- Chinese makers and distributors of pornographic materials sent through the Internet, mobile phones and other communication devices will face penalties as severe as life in prison under new rules that take effect Monday.    The regulations were issued Sunday in a legal interpretation by the Supreme People's Court and Supreme People's Procuratorate, or top prosecutors office, the official Xinhua News Agency reported...
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A Chinese province has banned its tourists from wearing counterfeit clothes overseas to avoid flagrant abuse of intellectual property rights and to protect its image, local media said on Tuesday.
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A Beijing court has rejected&#160;Yahoo China&#39;s appeal&#160;against a fine of 210,000 yuan ($28,400) for infringing a 2006 copyright law.The suit, filed in January by the 11 members of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), accused Yahoo China of infringing copyright by deep linking, through its music search engine, to MP3 files distributed by third party Web sites without the copyright holders&#39; permission.The Beijing No. 2 Intermediate People&#39;s Court&#160;found Yahoo China guilty&#160;on April 24, imposing the 210,000 yuan fine -- far less than the 5.5 million yuan sought by IFPI -- and&#160;Yahoo China promptly appealed. The Beijing Higher People&#39;s Court rejected that appeal on Thursday.Yahoo China is wholly owned by Chinese company Alibaba.com, in which Yahoo owns a 44 percent stake. The offending music search engine allowed visitors to Yahoo China&#39;s site to find and play copyright music tracks without leaving the Yahoo site, according to the IFPI.IFPI blames such sites for what it says is an abnormally low level of music sales in China: around $76 million in 2006, representing less than one percent of global recorded music sales, according to the group. It estimates that 99 percent of music downloads in China infringe copyright.A separate suit filed by IFPI against Chinese search engine Baidu.com in September 2005 resulted in an acquittal for Baidu. IFPI appealed the ruling, but its appeal too was rejected Thursday, leaving Baidu in the clear, said IFPI spokesman Alex Jacob.&quot;The Baidu case was judged on the old copyright law, so our appeal was rejected,&quot; Jacob said.
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WASHINGTON: American clothing retailers and importers sued on Wednesday to prevent the Bush administration from slapping emergency restrictions on imports from China at the request of the domestic textile industry.
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A Beijing court has rejected&#160;Yahoo China&#39;s appeal&#160;against a fine of 210,000 yuan ($28,400) for infringing a 2006 copyright law.
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AÂ flurry of raids and arrests in China over the last two weeks have ended what is estimated to be the world's largestÂ piracyÂ syndicate in operation for more than six years.
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Moscow court rules that Allofmp3.com, accused of selling pirated music downloads, did not violate Russian copyright laws and can resume business.
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Japan's Honda wins a copyright case in Beijing, more evidence that China is doing more to protect intellectual property rights.
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LONDON -- The High Court in London has ordered Internet service providers to hand over the names and addresses of 28 alleged music pirates to Britain&#39;s trade body for the recording industry.
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China's purveyors of counterfeit goods may bode ill for the country at large
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Creaky banking and postal systems are conspiring against Chinese shoppers snapping up books and cosmetics over the internet, holding back a market that has lured the likes of eBay and Amazon.