 |
Against Monopolydefending the right to innovate |
Monopoly corrupts. Absolute monopoly corrupts absolutely. |
||
|
Copyright Notice: We don't think much of copyright, so you can do what you want with the content on this blog. Of course we are hungry for publicity, so we would be pleased if you avoided plagiarism and gave us credit for what we have written. We encourage you not to impose copyright restrictions on your "derivative" works, but we won't try to stop you. For the legally or statist minded, you can consider yourself subject to a Creative Commons Attribution License. |
|
backFighting piracy in Viet Nam A few years ago, I had the chance to go back to Viet Nam to teach. I was struck by the vibrant market in pirated material--books, software, art, and movies. Much of the stuff was in English and the market was mainly the young students, the largest group that knows English. The copyright police are striking back now, afraid that the materials will leak out into the world market and as reported here the growing domestic market will be lost link here.
The article suggests that the copyright police have learned from their experience elsewhere. Then local authorities were not sympathetic to arguments that they were depriving rich foreign copyright owners of their rights. In Vietnam the copyright owners have set up a local firm to print and distribute books, the HCM City Books Distribution Corp (FAHASA) and are seeking cooperation from the universities. They can now argue that piracy is hurting a local boy. It's still a tough sale. [Posted at 07/18/2009 05:52 PM by John Bennett on Copyright Comments I seem to have lost the link and was unable to edit my post to put it in. Here it is: http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/showarticle.php?num=01CUL110709 [Comment at 07/18/2009 06:14 PM by John Bennett] Submit Comment |
|
Most Recent Comments A Texas Tale of Intellectual Property Litigation (A Watering Hole Patent Trolls) Aunque suena insignificante, los números son alarmantes y nos demuestran que no es tan mínimo como at 06/29/2022 08:48 AM by Abogado de Accidente de Carro en Huntington Park
at 11/27/2021 05:53 PM by Nobody
at 01/06/2021 06:57 PM by Anonymous
at 01/06/2021 06:57 PM by Anonymous
at 01/06/2021 06:57 PM by Anonymous
at 01/06/2021 06:57 PM by Anonymous
at 01/06/2021 06:57 PM by Anonymous
at 01/06/2021 06:57 PM by Anonymous
at 01/06/2021 06:57 PM by Anonymous
at 01/06/2021 06:57 PM by Anonymous
at 01/06/2021 06:57 PM by Anonymous
at 01/06/2021 06:57 PM by Anonymous
at 01/06/2021 06:57 PM by Anonymous
at 01/06/2021 06:57 PM by Anonymous
at 01/06/2021 06:57 PM by Anonymous
at 01/06/2021 06:57 PM by Anonymous
at 01/06/2021 06:47 PM by Anonymous
at 01/06/2021 06:47 PM by Anonymous
at 01/06/2021 06:42 PM by Anonymous
at 01/06/2021 06:42 PM by Anonymous
|
