Piracy hurting China's own industries
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Kingsoft Corp.&#039;s English-Chinese dictionary program is used on most of China&#039;s 60 million PCs. That&#039;s the good news. The bad news: Kingsoft doesn&#039;t make any money from it, because 90 percent of those copies are pirated.
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Piracy in China cost film makers &#36;2.7  billion last year, with domestic firms shouldering more than  half those losses, according to a study commissioned by a trade  group representing the major Hollywood studios.
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The plight of the litchi industry shows both the promise and the pitfalls of China's economic growth, from the flood of investment to overproduction and crashing profits.
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WASHINGTON The United States is cracking down on the growing trade in counterfeit and pirated goods that costs American businesses hundreds of billions of dollar annually, US government and industry officials said Monday.
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China's online games industry fears it could be in line for a clampdown similar to one hurting providers of mobile messaging services.
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China's battle against intellectual  property rights piracy will take "generations," a senior  official said on Thursday, but added the main victims were  Chinese and other countries should stop politicizing the issue.
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BEIJING - Chinese law enforcement agencies destroyed nearly 13 million pirated compact discs, DVDs and computer software Saturday in the government's latest campaign to curtail rampant theft of intellectual property, state media reported.
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Government says "costly and restrictive" policies are to blame for the high rates of consumer piracy in the country.
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China is ready to enforce a new law limiting video sharing to state-owned companies, but regulators will probably look the other way in order not to screw up private business.
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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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Chinese law enforcement agencies destroyed nearly 13 million pirated compact discs, DVDs and computer software Saturday in the government's latest campaign to curtail rampant theft of intellectual property, state media reported.
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Increased Chinese steel exports give the industry indigestion.
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Canada has joined China and Russia on the U.S. software, music and movie industries' annual list of countries with the worst record of fighting piracy of copyright goods, an industry coalition said on Monday.
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BEIJING -- Seeking to bring renewed focus on a perennial trouble spot with China, US business groups are calling the country&#39;s rampant infringement of intellectual property a huge pitfall to doing business in an ever-more crucial market.
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Arts & entertainment: Industry calls on internet service providers and governments to take action against digital piracy
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(InfoWorld) - Industry groups for producers of copyrighted material, including the Business Software Alliance (BSA) and the Motion Picture Association (MPA), Friday signed an agreement with the National Copyright Administration of China (NCAC) for protection against Internet piracy in China. The Association of American Publishers (AAP) and The Publishers Association (TPA) of the U.K. also signed the memorandum, under which the industry groups will provide information about legal, authorized products distributed by their member companies in China. This allows the NCAC to distinguish between legal and pirated copy available online. Instances of Internet piracy will then be referred to the NCAC, which will then inform the proper legal authorities, the MPA said in a statement. The BSA estimated that total pirated software losses in 2005 in China were $3.9 billion, and that 86 percent of all software used in China during that year was pirated. The MPA estimated that the piracy rate for its members' products was 93 percent. Those numbers are calculated based on estimated sales if pirated or unauthorized products were not available. BSA members include major technology companies such as Apple Computer, Microsoft, and Dell. The MPA is comprised of Hollywood's largest film studios, such as Paramount Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It is the international arm of the Motion Picture Association of America. Â
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In an attempt to control export quality, China enforces new licensing procedures. The result: expensive Chinese dinners.