Xinhua News Agency said Zhou Cheng, 40, was jailed for one year and fined about $1,430 by the Chaoyang District People’s Court on Friday.
Cheng had been selling DVDs from his shop in Chaoyang for $2.15 each and upon his arrest was found with nearly 11,000 DVDs in his possession. Pirated DVDs are extremely common throughout […]
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China’s First Copyright Infringement Jail Term
April 28th, 2008
Tags:China, Copyright, DVD, Jail
China: 40 IP “service centers” to be established and 4,300 people convicted of IP infringement in 2007
April 15th, 2008
Xinhua, China’s state news agency, is writing today that 4,300 individuals were arrested for copyright infringement in China last year in just shy of 2,700 cases. Xinhua claims that this is an 18% rise over last year. China is under quite a lot of pressure to increase its safeguards against IP infringement and the […]
Tags:China, convictions, infringement, law enforcement, service centers
