Canada is Bad: signed, China
p2pnet.net news:- Chinese officials are discounting US criticism of China’s anti-piracy efforts, “insisting they are cracking down and saying countries such as Canada are worse offenders”.
National Copyright Administration spokesman Wang Ziqiang, “argued other countries such as Canada have more serious piracy problems,” says the Globe & Mail.
“He cited a February report by the U.S.-based International Intellectual Property Alliance that put annual losses to piracy in Canada at $16.78 a person, while the figure for China was $1.68.”
Here’s Michael Geist on the subject.
What happens when you get a steady stream of unfounded claims from the US government and US lobby groups on the state of Canadian copyright law?
What happens when Canadian lobby groups representing largely foreign interests try to convince Canadians that they are a “pirate nation”?
What happens when the Canadian media simply transcribes those claims without any effort to provide context and balance?
You get this. China’s response to the US complaint at the WTO is to blame Canada.
Yes, a country of 32 million people that is compliant with its international copyright obligations is now painted by China – China – as a “worse offender” of IP rights.
Michael Geist
[Geist is the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa. He can be reached by email at mgeist[at]uottawa.ca and is on-line at www.michaelgeist.ca.]
Also See:
Globe & Mail – China rejects criticism of anti-piracy efforts, says Canada worse, April 17, 2007
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