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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Main Authors: Montgomery, Lucy, Ren, X.
Format: Book Chapter
Published: Routledge 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/28493
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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
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Copyright
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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
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Copyright
China
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/28493