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Property right or development strategy?: protection of foreign copyright in 19th Century America and contemporary China

Meng, Bingchun (2007) Property right or development strategy?: protection of foreign copyright in 19th Century America and contemporary China. . Media@lse, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

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Abstract

This paper offers a critical view of the current international copyright regime through a comparative analysis of the protection of foreign copyrights in the 19th century United States and that in contemporary China. The first part of this paper is a retrospective analysis of how the early US copyright statute dealt with the copyright of foreign works and what the rationales were behind the discrimination against foreign authors’ rights. The treatment of foreign works in Chinese copyright law is then discussed, demonstrating that such treatment was strongly influenced by the hegemonic power that the US and other developed countries had established in the arena of international copyright. In the conclusion the two historical accounts are drawn together to highlight the impracticability and injustice of the current trend toward the harmonisation of international copyright law.

Item Type: Monograph (Working Paper)
Official URL: http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/media@lse
Additional Information: © 2007 Meng, Bingchung
Divisions: Media and Communications
Subjects: K Law > K Law (General)
P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN1990 Broadcasting
Date Deposited: 02 Apr 2008 12:51
Last Modified: 15 Sep 2023 23:10
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/4034

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