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Wait, "federal contempt of business model" is an actual tort in Chinese law?

• yorwba 3y ago
  Not literally in those terms, but the Anti-Unfair Competition Law 反不正当竞争法 (English text: https://wipolex-res.wipo.int/edocs/lexdocs/laws/en/cn/cn409en.pdf https://wipolex-res.wipo.int/edocs/lexdocs/laws/en/cn/cn409e... ) seems to often get used to accuse business model-threatening third parties of doing something illegal. E.g. Haier could claim that the API is a trade secret that the HA integration is using illegally, or that by accessing the API, Haier's domain name is being used without authorization (though I think this is intended to combat impersonation where someone registers a domain with their competitor's name) etc. etc. Funnily enough, it also outlaws "causing, in bad faith, incompatibility with an internet product or service lawfully provided by another business entity".