Kariyawasam, Rohan --- "Introduction" [2011] ELECD 838; in Kariyawasam, Rohan (ed), "Chinese Intellectual Property and Technology Laws" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011)

Book Title: Chinese Intellectual Property and Technology Laws

Editor(s): Kariyawasam, Rohan

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781849800082

Section: Chapter 1

Section Title: Introduction

Author(s): Kariyawasam, Rohan

Number of pages: 24

Extract:

1. Introduction
Rohan Kariyawasam1

This book is the first of its kind to introduce Chinese intellectual property
(IP) and technology laws in a single volume in English. Its unique perspec-
tive for a book covering intellectual property law is that it also includes
chapters on competition and trade law, and provides as full a spectrum
as possible of Chinese legislation which impacts on the regulation of
telecommunications, information technology and electronic commerce.
The first eight chapters focus on intellectual property. The remaining
chapters look at the regulation of technology, competition and trade.
The aim of the book is to introduce readers to the rich mix of Chinese IP
and technology laws currently undergoing rapid reform and to discuss
appropriate case law where relevant.
China is quickly moving from `made in China' to `created in China'
and with this change comes an incredible rate of change of amendments
to IP and other laws that impact on the delivery of content over the
Internet. Added to this process of change is China's unique system of law
that has origins in Confucian thought, but with overtones of Japanese
and German influence in China's more recent history. There exists a
complex mix of administrative, civil and criminal law. The country's
unique `one country, two systems' approach, which provides a differenti-
ated autonomy in China's special administrative regions of Hong Kong,
Macau and Tibet, also gives its law making processes a special `Chinese
Flavour'. This is particularly the case in the ...