To Steal a Book Is an Elegant Offense: Intellectual Property Law in Chinese Civilization (Studies in East Asian Law) - Hardcover

Alford, William P.

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ISBN 10: 0804722706 ISBN 13: 9780804722704

Verlag: Stanford University Press, 1995

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This study examines the law of intellectual property in China from imperial times to the present. It draws on history, politics, economics, sociology, and the arts, and on interviews with officials, business people, lawyers, and perpetrators and victims of 'piracy'. The author asks why the Chinese, with their early bounty of scientific and artistic creations, are only now devising legal protection for such endeavors and why such protection is more rhetoric than reality on the Chinese mainland. In the process, he sheds light on the complex relation between law and political culture in China. The book goes on to examine recent efforts in the People's Republic of China to develop intellectual property law, and uses this example to highlight the broader problems with China's program of law reform.

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William P. Alford is Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law, and Director of East Asian Legal Studies, at the Harvard Law School.

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“This ambitious, pioneering work makes available a wealth of new material. It is presented in a richly textured context of the forces—historical, cultural, and political—that have shaped China’s approach to the drafting and enforcement of legislation relating to copyrights, patents, and trademarks. Scholars of Chinese law and comparative law and specialists in the law of intellectual property will welcome its publication.”—R. Randle Edwards, Columbia University School of Law
“Alford offers a rich mine of materials for those studying intellectual property rights in China. Reviewing Chinese civilization from imperial days to the present, he seeks to answer why intellectual property law has never taken hold in China.”—Choice

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• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0804722706
• ISBN 13: 9780804722704
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 236
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Mare Nostrum Group B.V.; gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk; ; Doelen 72; Breda; 4831 GR; Niederlande