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My take: in eastern societies, the concept of intellectual property, ergo copyright, does not seem to exist in the same fashion as western ones. Source: I work
by exabrial 4y ago
My take: in eastern societies, the concept of intellectual property, ergo copyright, does not seem to exist in the same fashion as western ones.
Source: I worked for Alibaba and spent a lot of time overseas prior to 2018.
- powerapple 4y agocopyright is a western thing. Printing was invented in China, but commercially variable printing is a western thing (latin, English). Because of the Chinese writing system, you can never print a book cheaply. Books were spread verbally, some are handwritten copy were sold for the copying, not for authoring.