The Changing Role of Copyright in China's Emergent Media Economy
Abstract
This chapter introduces the changing role of copyright in China from a historical perspective. It begins by briefly tracing the history of copyright, from a censorship related system associated with the emergence of the printing press in Imperial China, through modernization during the Republican period, abolition under Communism, and finally to the introduction of the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) first copyright law in 1990 and the nation’s entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001.
Citation
Montgomery, L. and Ren, X. 2015. The Changing Role of Copyright in China's Emergent Media Economy, in Rawnsley, G.D. and Rawnsley, M.T. (ed), Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.
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Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media
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Centre for Research and Graduate Studies-Humanities
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