“A lot of the piracy is done with a nudge-nudge, wink-wink type of thing,” Emily Miao, an intellectual property attorney with McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff in Chicago said. “That’s clear when you walk through the streets and see all these low-quality brand-name goods for sale and see police officers walking everywhere and nobody is doing anything.”
When China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001 it was thought the move would induce the nation to toe the line on the theft of intellectual property within its borders, but that hasn’t been the case — and it won’t be until the Asian giant steps up its efforts at innovation, according to one IP attorney.
“Until China becomes more of a producer of IP, I suspect that it won’t become more responsive to the issue,” Emily Miao, an intellectual property attorney with McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff in Chicago, told TechNewsWorld.
“Right now, since it’s not producing very much IP, piracy is no skin off its back,” she added.
Not when innovation involves Americans making millions of dollars to help Beijing censor the Internet.
FUCK BEIJING!
FUCK USA!
LONG LIVE DEMOCRACY FREEDOM AND SOCIALISM!