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p2p news / p2pnet: Hollywood’s mandarin-in-chief is smokin’ in Communist China.
The MPAA’s (Motion Picture Association of America) Dan Glickman has already severely castigated the country for failing to fall in with business development plans as stipulated by the MPAA’s owners, Walt Disney Company; Sony Pictures Entertainment; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios; Paramount Pictures; Twentieth Century Fox; Universal City Studios; and, Warner Bros Entertainment Inc.
When he was in Beijing six months ago, similarly giving China the benefit of his wisdom, the Keystone unit accompanying him was told about two “notorious” DVD shops in the city.
“Glickman had complained about to Beijing mayor Wang Qishan,” says an MPAA puff piece, and Lo! “Just after Glickman’s visit … officials from the Beijing Copyright Administration, accompanied by Motion Picture Association (MPA) representatives, raided three shops, seizing 1,015 pirated DVDs, some of which were infringing MPA member company titles.”
However, although he was “pleased last summer with the agreement we reached with the Chinese government to strengthen anti-piracy enforcement,” unfortunately, “we have not made as much progress on that front as I would like to see,” he said.
But, chagrined Chinese officials were glad to learn, Glickman is nonetheless still prepared to accommodate the country to a certain extent.
“The raids and seizures made this week in Beijing are an encouraging sign, and I hope the government will continue to apply the pressure in its fight against rampant piracy,” he said.
Tired of being treated like a criminal? They depend on you, not the other way around. Don’t buy their ‘product’. Do bug your local political representatives. Use emails, snail-mail, phone calls, faxes, IM, stop them in the street, blog. And if you’re into organizing, organize petitions, organize demonstrations and then turn up on your local political rep’s doorstep, making sure you’ve contacted your local tv/radio station/newspaper in advance.
December 15th, 2005 at 2:29 pm
Nonsense.
My family owns the rights to the music of our father. We have found roughly 75 unlawful recordings on sale, made by Amercan record companies and sold in American stores and web sites. Sony alone has over 16 of these records. None have licenses for the songs nor have paid a single cent in royalties, ever, and we own the music since our father died in 1993. At leat 30 record companies are on my list of manufacturers of these infringing recordings. In royalties alone these companies owe us over $2 millions (current worth).
There is not a single lawful record to be found for sale in stores or web site, other than one we produce and sell ourselves.
This more or less describes the American COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT DEBACLE.
It is absurd that an American go to China to complain about the infringement over there when heavy duty infringement, for commercial profit, in America is rampant, is not controlled by the American government, who is ironically is more concerned about home copying.
Info about our lawsuit against Sony are found here:
http://rafa_venegas.web.prdigital.com/venegas_v_sony_lawsuit.htm
Frankly, Americans are acting in a ridiculous insidious manner.
Rafael Venegas
htto://www.gvenegas.com
December 19th, 2005 at 9:24 pm
While America does indeed have crappy copyright laws, one of the companies who is hosing you(Sony) is based in Japan. As has been posted here before all but one of the RIAA cartels are not American owned. It would be interesting to see a list of what countries have the worst copyright laws(I’m sure the U.S. would be high on the list), and which are the most lenient. I almost wish it was just “America against the world” when it came to pushing for draconian copyright laws, as one country is easier to fend off than a giant international cartel. The U.S. is nothing more than a puppet dancing on strings controlled by foreign cartels, which are all too happy to hide while the U.S. takes all the blame for crappy copyright bills world wide. I’m not saying the corrupt U.S. politicians and media are blameless, but if you want to kill the snake you have to cut off the head.