p2pnet - rss feed: China’s PCT situation
p2pnet.net news view:- An article in Intellectual Property Watch by William New talks about how Open Source, Standards Get A Boost In China.
Moving away from western dominated business models (Over 50% of worldwide royalties flow into the USA) is seen as key to moving forward in the knowledge economy.
This needs to be understood when evaluating recent attacks by the US government (embarrassingly joined by Canada) against China’s protection of so-called “Intellectual Property”. This is a matter of anti-free-trade protectionism of US dominated business models, not a protection of authors or inventors rights.
We need to remember, as PCT lawyer Howard Knopf reminds us, that the USA seriously breached international legal copyright obligations, as adjudicated by the WTO, and still flouts international copyright law.
Russell McOrmond - p2pnet contributing editor
[McOrmond is an independent author (software and non-software) who uses modern business models and licensing (Free/Libre and Open Source Software, Creative Commons). He’s also the CLUE policy coordinator.]
