Copyright law is widely perceived as the means to promote social welfare by providing necessary incentive for intellectual creation. However, there has been little clarity in copyright literature on how artists actually respond to copyright incentives: What factors motivate artists to create...

Developing countries are often considered non-stakeholders in effective copyright enforcement because they have not built up robust copyright industries, and copyright piracy therein mostly targets the works of foreign copyright owners. It is also argued that, while copyright piracy mainly...

Conventional wisdom suggests that copyright piracy may in effect reduce the deadweight loss resulting from copyright protection because it allows the public unlimited access to information goods at a price closer to marginal cost. It has been further contended that lower copyright protection...

An interesting yet less explored aspect of the eBay decision, in which the Supreme Court upheld the four-factor test under traditional principles of equity in the patent injunction context, is that the decision referred to what it characterized as long-term practice in copyright law to support...

Zheng Chengsi v. Shusheng Digital Technology Co Ltd (the “Shusheng case”) is fated to become a landmark case in the copyright history of the People’s Republic of China (“PRC” or “China”). Even when the Shusheng case was just decided by the court of first instance and still pending...

This article aims to examine empirical evidence on how the Chinese music industry has adapted and developed in the shadow of rampant copyright piracy. Based on the analysis of public statistics, industrial data and existing market surveys from various secondary sources, this article suggests...

Universal City Studios v. Sony Corporation of America (the “Sony case”) is well recognized by the copyright bar as a landmark of indirect copyright liability. While copyright holders cried doom for the advent of a new communications technology, namely Betamax Video Tape Recorder (“VTR”),...

Digital technology poses an enormous impact to the creation and dissemination of works of authorship. First of all, all kinds of information, including text, sound, graphics, and motion pictures, etc., are capable of being stored in a unitary digital format (i.e. translated into a sequence of...