Internet politics is a new form of democratic politics. Blocking and sealing the net will not fulfill the need of Internet politics. These are the conclusion published on Beijing Daidly by 4 authentic Chinese scholars on laws, politics and sociology. Is it signalizing the change of the online weather? No clue.
The case took five years but just ended in a landmark decision by the Supreme People’s Court in China awarding Yahama Motor $1.1 million, the highest amount of damages ever awarded in China in a trademark dispute involving a foreign company.
The Chinese company….registered a shell company in Japan’s remote Ishikawa prefecture in 2000 under the same three characters used by Yamaha to render its name in Chinese. This Japanese shell company then signed a licensing agreement with Zhejiang Huatian, allowing it to market its scooters in China under that name. Zhejiang Huatian went a step further by printing Yamaha’s name in English letters on its scooters.
http://www.chinalawblog.com/chinalawblog/2007/06/china_court_kil.html
Proposals to adopt a policy that opposes censorship on the internet , specifically China, were rejected by Yahoo shareholders.
Last year, Human Rights Watch, a New York based campaign group, accused Yahoo, Google and Microsoft for “carrying out censorship for the Chinese government”.
Neither Yahoo nor any other company has released a list of websites that have been de-listed for their political and religious content.
After promulgation of the Property Law, the draft of the Torts Law has been published. Protection of privacy will be formally established.
A Hong Kong man convicted of sharing pirated movies lost his final appeal on Friday in the territory’s highest court and will now have to finish serving a three-month prison sentence.
The court of final appeal held, “He plainly succeeded in distributing copies of the films in question,” the court said in its judgment. “The appeal must accordingly be dismissed.”
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/05/18/tech-bittorrent-hongkong.html#skip300x250
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