Here’s a link you probably won’t see anywhere else, an article from China Daily (the state-run periodical, the voice of the Chinese Communist Party in English essentially) mentioning John Howkins’ talk at a chinese business summit. He talks about how adopting US-style copyright and patent law might have a downside, and emphasizes that future IP law should embrace innovators who want to share their work as well as ones who want to protect it.
I hope they listen to him. And I hope they abandon their one-party government and adopt a sensible representative democracy, while they’re at it.
So let me get this straight. The country that stands to benefit the most from making counterfeit Rolexes isn’t so sure it likes intellectual property laws? I’m shocked.