ore ca e to withdraw MFN benefits.
he copyright debate will have a great impact on many industries that are till in their infancy in China, including publishing, entertainment, Industrial and commercial design and high technology.
eveloping industries tend to see little benefit in protecting the ntellectual property rights of the developed world, feeling that such rotections can only hinder their own development.
hina's communist leaders also have trouble with Western concepts of ntellectual property, relying on deeply embedded socialist notions that ublic ownership extends not just to objects, but to ideas.
nother Beijing-based American, also a trade lawyer, said China nevertheless as increased intellectual property protections since adopting a landmark atent law in 1985.
'Since 1985 China has adopted a trademark law and a copyright law, the awyer said. ''The laws aren't perfect but they do work. In just six years' ime China has made quantum leaps in its recognition of intellectual property ights.'
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