This Thursday March 2: The Digital Media in Asia Speaker Series Presents Chinese Cyberlaw Expert Peter Yu

Eric - February 28, 2006 @ 3:59 am · Filed under China, Intellectual Property Law, Internet

This Thursday, March 2, we’re pleased to present a live and webcast event, co-hosted with the East Asian Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School.  Professor Peter Yu will present “Elegant Offenses, Digital Opium and the Sinicyberspace.”  Lunchtime talks begin promptly at 12:30 p.m.  This talk is open to the public, and is located at Harvard Law School, Pound Hall 106. You are invited to bring your lunch beginning at 12 noon to meet the guest speaker and others in EALS and the Digital Media in Asia Project. We’ll supply fruit, cookies, and beverages.

We will post a link to the webcast on this blog shortly before the event.

From Professor Yu:

China is notorious for its lack of protection of intellectual property rights.  Every year, the United States is estimated to have lost billions of dollars due to piracy and counterfeiting in the country alone.  As contents become increasingly digitized in the information age, the protection of intellectual property rights in the digital area has presented a major challenge for foreign copyright holders.  Today, China has more than 100 million Internet users and the second largest Internet population in the world, behind only the United States.  If these users became pirates and distributed copyrighted works illegally to other parts of the world, online piracy would become a major transnational problem.  This presentation will discuss the challenges concerning the protection of intellectual property rights in digital media in China. It will also explore the impact of the country’s Internet regulation and information control policy, as well as its recent accession to the World Trade Organization.

About Peter Yu:

Peter K. Yu (余家明) is Associate Professor of Law and the founding director of the nationally-ranked Intellectual Property & Communications Law Program at Michigan State University College of Law.  He holds appointments in the Asian Studies Center and the Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media at Michigan State University. He is also a research fellow of the Center for Studies of Intellectual Property Rights at Zhongnan University of Economics and Law in Wuhan, China and a member of the affiliated faculty of the Working Group on Property, Citizenship, and Social Entrepreneurism at Syracuse University College of Law.  Born and raised in Hong Kong, Professor Yu is a leading expert in international intellectual property and communications law.  He is the editor or coeditor of three books and currently is working on a book titled Paranoid Pirates and Schizophrenic Swashbucklers: Protecting Intellectual Property in Post-WTO China.  Professor Yu has spoken at events organized by the ITU, UNCTAD, WIPO and the U.S. government and at leading research institutions from around the world.  He is a frequent commentator in the national and international media, and his publications are available on his website at www.peteryu.com.

2 Comments »

  1. Sheridan Tatsuno

    March 31, 2006 @ 4:43 pm

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    IP First Society in Shanghai is hosting its first Digital Media IP conference on April 27-28, 2006 in Shanghai. See http://www.ipfirst.org for details.

    Sheridan Tatsuno

  2. Eric Priest

    April 3, 2006 @ 5:51 am

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    Great–please provide us with more details about your conference and we’ll post them.

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