Associated Press via New York Times; Chinese Court Jails and Fines Pirates of Windows Software:
"A court in eastern China has sentenced four people to prison and ordered payment of about 11 million renminbi ($1.6 million) in fines for distributing pirated versions of Microsoft’s Windows XP and other software.
The Business Software Alliance, an industry trade group, lauded the court’s decision as the first successful prosecution of large-scale, online software piracy in China. Microsoft likewise applauded the handling of the case.
“It shows the government is really taking action,” Liu Fengming, vice president for the greater China region for Microsoft, said in a statement."
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/22/technology/22piracy.html?scp=2&sq=piracy&st=cse
Issues and developments related to Intellectual Property (e.g. Copyright, Fair Use, Patents, Trademarks, Trade Secrets) and Open Movements (e.g. Open Access, Open Data, Open Educational Resources (OER)), examined in the "Intellectual Property and Open Movements" and "Ethics of Data, Information, and Emerging Technologies" graduate courses I teach at the University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information. -- Kip Currier, PhD, JD
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Saturday, August 22, 2009
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