Anything illegal under Chinese law is, of course, not protected by copyright.
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I'm not a big believer in our copyright laws; I find them way too restrictive.
All over the world copyright holders are trying to limit consumers' rights. We cannot have that.
Whether it's Baidu or Chinese versions of YouTube or Sina or Sohu, Chinese Internet sites are getting daily directives from the government telling them what kinds of content they cannot allow on their site and what they need to delete.
The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.
To protect the right of expression is the central part of an artist's activity... In China many essential rights are lacking, and I wanted to remind people of this.
If you just technically adhere to the law, sometimes that's enough, sometimes it's not; it's really hard to predict. There is definitely a possibility that the Chinese authorities won't find it sufficient.
Traditional copyright has been that you can't make a full copy of somebody's work without their permission.
The problem with copyright enforcement is that when the parameters aren't incredibly well defined, it means big corporations, who have deeper pockets and better lawyers, can bully people.
When you have a group of engineers and designers, they are not exactly the best to deal with copyright law.
I think copyright has its right to exist, absolutely, and I think that it's up to copyright creators to come up with new solutions that deal with the reality of the world we're living in today.
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