The Changing Role of Copyright in China's Emergent Media Economy
This chapter introduces the changing role of copyright in China from a historical perspective. It begins by briefly tracing the history of copyright, from a censorship related system associated with the emergence of the printing press in Imperial China, through modernization during the Republican pe...
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| author | Montgomery, Lucy Ren, X. |
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| description | This chapter introduces the changing role of copyright in China from a historical perspective. It begins by briefly tracing the history of copyright, from a censorship related system associated with the emergence of the printing press in Imperial China, through modernization during the Republican period, abolition under Communism, and finally to the introduction of the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) first copyright law in 1990 and the nation’s entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-284932017-01-30T13:05:21Z The Changing Role of Copyright in China's Emergent Media Economy Montgomery, Lucy Ren, X. Media Copyright China This chapter introduces the changing role of copyright in China from a historical perspective. It begins by briefly tracing the history of copyright, from a censorship related system associated with the emergence of the printing press in Imperial China, through modernization during the Republican period, abolition under Communism, and finally to the introduction of the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) first copyright law in 1990 and the nation’s entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001. 2015 Book Chapter http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/28493 Routledge restricted |
| spellingShingle | Media Copyright China Montgomery, Lucy Ren, X. The Changing Role of Copyright in China's Emergent Media Economy |
| title | The Changing Role of Copyright in China's Emergent Media Economy |
| title_full | The Changing Role of Copyright in China's Emergent Media Economy |
| title_fullStr | The Changing Role of Copyright in China's Emergent Media Economy |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Changing Role of Copyright in China's Emergent Media Economy |
| title_short | The Changing Role of Copyright in China's Emergent Media Economy |
| title_sort | changing role of copyright in china's emergent media economy |
| topic | Media Copyright China |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/28493 |