To Steal a Book Is an Elegant Offense Intellectual Property Law in Chinese Civilization

Name: To Steal a Book Is an Elegant Offense Intellectual Property Law in Chinese Civilization
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ISBN: 9780804729604

ISBN-10: 0804729603

ISBN-13: 9780804729604

Edition: 1995

Authors: William P. Alford

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Alford examines the law of intellectual property in China from imperial times to the present, and asks why the Chinese, with their early bounty of scientific and artistic creations, are only now devising legal protection for such endeavours.

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 1/1/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 236
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

William P. Alford is the Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law and the Director of the East Asian Legal Studies program at Harvard Law School.




Introduction



Don't Stop Thinking About...Yesterday: Why There Was No Indigenous Counterpart to Intellectual Property Law in Imperial China



Learning the Law at Gunpoint: The Turn-of-the-Century Introduction of Western Notions of Intellectual Property



Squaring Circles: Intellectual Property Law with Chinese Characteristics for a Socialist Commodity Economy



As Pirates Become Proprietors: Changing Approaches Toward Intellectual Property on Taiwan



No Mickey Mouse Matter: U.S. Policy on Intellectual Property in Chinese Society


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