4 ms·
>China of course has IP laws, since they're a signatory to international conventions like the Berne Convention. Enforcement is quite another matter. Laws which
by dispose13432 10y ago
>China of course has IP laws, since they're a signatory to international conventions like the Berne Convention. Enforcement is quite another matter.
Laws which are not enforced (and will not be enforced) aren't real laws.
- natermer 10y agoThey are when it's done entirely for the purpose of having friendly trade relations with the USA. That's one of the benefits of running a country like the USA. The USA market is so desirable to participate in that they can black mail countries all over the world to adopt your IP laws despite the fact that (if it wasn't for the lure of USA markets) it is entirely against their best interest to do so.
- smallnamespace 10y agoYup, every country is anti-IP when it's behind the technology curve and pro-IP when it's ahead. https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2013-02-01/piracy-and-fraud-propelled-the-u-s-industrial-revolution https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2013-02-01/piracy-an... "The first U.S. Patent Act encouraged this policy. Although the law safeguarded domestic inventors, it didn’t extend the same courtesy to foreign ones -- they couldn’t obtain a U.S. patent on an invention they had previously patented in Europe. In practice, this meant one could steal a foreign invention, smuggle it to the U.S., and develop it for domestic commercial applications without fear of legal reprisal."