Piracy in Context: There Are Bigger Challenges in China
Filed in archive Law by Greg Cruey on August 10, 2008
I found a great blog post last month at BizCult that puts the problem of piracy in China into context.
Sure, intellectual property rights (IPR) are a big deal - and a problem in China. China Success Stories has a recent piece on how to secure your IPRs in China (Part 1 and Part 2). But IPR is not at the top of the list...
The BizCult piece points out a very simple truth. When a company is making more hand over fist, the fact that some guy down the road is selling cheap, low-quality knock offs of your stuff loses a lot of its emotional content. It's not so much about how you can make that guy stop as it is about how you can keep making money!
© myuibe
Sure, intellectual property rights (IPR) are a big deal - and a problem in China. China Success Stories has a recent piece on how to secure your IPRs in China (Part 1 and Part 2). But IPR is not at the top of the list...
The BizCult piece points out a very simple truth. When a company is making more hand over fist, the fact that some guy down the road is selling cheap, low-quality knock offs of your stuff loses a lot of its emotional content. It's not so much about how you can make that guy stop as it is about how you can keep making money!
© myuibe
The solution to that problem seems to have more to do with negotiating government bureaucracy and regulation and solving personnel issues than with piracy.
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