the 23rd Issue: New York Times taps Chinese media market-China Intellectual Property Magazine

·New York Times taps Chinese media market
Gloria Brown Anderson, vice president of international editorial development at the New York Times News Services division recently said in a speech at Hunan University that the New York Times will enhance cooperation with China. Her trip to China is to negotiate copyright trading with Hunan Broadcasting Media Group’s Happigo Home Shopping Co. Ltd to develop a Chinese version of fashion magazine "T Magazine", as the group assesses restructuring opportunities.More

·Sohu.com CEO Calls for End to Internet Piracy
Piracy, long a problem for foreign media companies in China, also stands to stifle innovation by the country’s own dynamic Internet industry, the chief executive of one of China’s oldest Web companies said. "China needs to clean up piracy on the Internet or face a lag in innovation," Charles Zhang, chief executive of Sohu.com, said at one of China’s larger Internet conferences earlier this month in Beijing.More

·First case of copyright infringement on background music solved

China lags behind with respect to the legislation in intellectual property rights (IPR) protection for traditional knowledge and heritage resources and should make a consideration, said principals of State Council Legislative Affairs Office expressed at 2009 China International Trademark Festival on November 9.More

·China to apply for "Zhongguo"domain name
Under the proposed amendment, it would be a criminal act to initiate unauthorized communication of copyright works to the public "for profit or where it is made to such an extent as to affect prejudicially the copyright owners," Permanent Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development Yvonne Choi said in a briefing.More

·Microsoft ordered to stopping selling OS
·International application on ".中国" domain name submitted
·Patent law enforcement in Canton fair gets high appraisal
·China launches pilot project on IPR-backed loans
·Google to talk with Chinese authors over copyrights
·World Innovation Summit Forum is around the corner
·China makes headway on combating online infringement and piracy

China IP Articles

·Two Anti-Piracy Alliances, Same Enemy. issue 32, China IP[Copyright]
After this September, every video website and websites with video channels except CCTV.com, Ifeng, Sohu, JOY.cn and Union Voole, will have to ask themselves: Are we piracy sites? Are we going to spend money on copyright to become “genuine video sites?”.More

·WANGZHIHE: To Win Trademark Squatting Case through Anti-Unfair Competition Law Issue 32 By Yi Wenhui and Dr. Saskia Eschmann,[Trademark]
The decision of April 23, 2009 (No. 29 U 5712/07) of the Higher District Court of Munich affirms a judgment of the District Court of Munich of November 11, 2007 (No. 21 O 21512/06) insofar as it states that the registration of China registered trademark in Germany by the German importer of Chinese goods bearing such trademark can constitute an act of unfair competition according to the German Act Against Unfair Competition.More