| Mostly to Stephen, This is exactly WHY China has to be stronger in enforcing intellectual property protection. Why are those high-quality Chinese manufacturers turning out fake foreign brands? Because they'll sell more. If the government was strict in enforcing IP laws, those same manufacturers would turn out the same product with Chinese brand names... and slowly, over time, some of those brands would become well known. What would happen if one of those manufacturers decided to spend some money on r&d and market their own wares under their own brand name? If they did well, other Chinese factories would start counterfeiting their brand. Happens to all the big Chinese cigarette manufacturers. Here's some history. At the dawn of US IP law, the US did not protect the copyright on works that were published first overseas. Although this was intended to bias towards American writers, it had the opposite effect. No American publishers would pay an American writer when he could pirate the work of British writers. Thus, American creativity suffered. Until China protects ALL IP, we won't see Chinese brands grow and prosper as they deserve to. tek. |
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