Fake Chinese Disney Characters Destroyed
Just one day after I wrote my screed asking if we should all pirate Olympic merchandise in protest over China's massive, sustained theft of global intellectual property, China has ordered Beijing's fake Disneyland, called Shijingshan Amusement Park, to smash it's Disney characters. Under pressure from Disney, workers TOOK SLEDGEHAMMERS TO SLEEPING BEAUTY, and presumably will discontinue the use of fake Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Pluto, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves -- and even Japan's Hello Kitty and Doraemon characters. The move is consistent with China's normal approach to IP enforcement, which is to take limited, specific action only when massive international condemnation shames them into doing so.
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I am so glad that action is finally being taken to take down the Disney copies. The blatant piracy by China is something that I've long felt was troubling. It is much more worse for clothing brands and watches.
I also have to tell you that I am grateful of the news entries you post. I enjoy reading every one of them. I'm not even too sure how I ran into your site, but ever I've first seen it two years ago, I've been looking forward to posts you make.
Keep up the good work! Oh, the thing I like the most about your posts is that you post follow ups on interesting tidbits (like this one). This is one of the things I enjoy.. not many people take the time to post follow ups.
Thanks! I appreciate that. : )
Regarding China: Yes, it's great to see the fake Sleeping Beauty getting what's coming to her. The problem is that actions like this are the exception, rather than the rule. Literally billions of dollars worth of counterfeiting is taking place in China this year. What China really needs to fix is its absense of IP law and enforcement. The trouble, as always, is that China is hopelessly corrupt. Powerful Communist-Party officials are profiting enormously from all this theft. Without multi-party government, nobody is able to mount an effective program to fix the problem. -Mike
Finally! Thank heavens! I hope this park gets shut down and goes bankrupt, I have never ever seen such blatant disregard of copyright and absence of IP law and enforcement. And I agree with mike about China being hopelessly corrupt, it makes me ashamed to be called Chinese. The Chinese have embarrassed themselves so much in the news and the media that I am forgoing being Chinese and currently passing myself off as Japanese, Korean or even Thai. Hopefully, things will get better and China gets some sense knocked into it.
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