What do authors John Grisham and Ta-Nehisi Coates, performers Billie Eilish and Stevie Wonder, visual artist Sarah Andersen, and corporations like Getty Images, the New York Times, and Sony Music, all have in common? (Along with a long tail of others you probably have never heard of, such as writers Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber and […]
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Copyrighting the Cultural Revolution in China and America
Like China, Americans were notorious for cultural piracy and weak copyrights. The U.S. finally acknowledged international copyrights when the balance of trade in cultural goods shifted in their favour. Similarly, China today is strongly enforcing copyrights to protect its emerging global leadership in cultural creativity.
The (New) Cultural Revolution in China
A few years ago, I rated on Netflix over 1000 movies with which I was familiar. The top 10 included (in no particular order): Bladerunner, Woman in the Dunes (Suna no onna), Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, A Bout de Souffle, Pan’s Labyrinth, Das Leben der Anderen, Casablanca, Metropolis, 2001: a Space Odyssey, Chinatown. (Lord of […]