Posted on 10/28/2018 11:22:24 PM PDT by vannrox
Edited on 10/29/2018 7:52:35 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
This is the full text of a very curious story (The April Witch) by Ray Bradbury. It is presented here under Article 22 of China
(Excerpt) Read more at metallicman.com ...
(My daughter is wearing the head-cover from the costume we ordered from Spain when she was Mary Mother Of God in the Catholic Church Christmas play year before last and the dress of Cleopatra we got her last year. She got the face-paint at the party. She had a great time and brought me home Chinese.)
[It is presented here under Article 22 of China’s Copyright Law.]
How does that jibe with everyone else’s understanding of copyright protection?
If it’s from China, it must be OK. They never steal intellectual property. //sarc
My wife said you can hire Elsa,
for a kiddie party.
It sounds like Ray was trying to understand the fickleness of women in an amusing way. “They gotta be possessed!” Thanks for the post.
That’s a lovely short story.
If he was in his terrible twos, maybe. Poor choice pop... but nice work on costume
Thank you for posting this link to a story that is a breath of fresh air. I need that. :)
It's probably more sane than America's copyright law, under which, no work has entered the public domain for over 20 years. Ray Bradbury is dead. They can publish everything he's written for all I care.
China’s copyright law simply says that the first thing made or published in China is owned by the person using / making the product.
For example...
When the earth-mover company, CAT came to China and opened up a factory there, the Chinese factory boss effectively owned the CAT logo. Not the American company. That is simply because ownership went to the first entity to use that logo in China. Which was the Chinese factory.
For CAT to obtain ownership of that logo, they would have to prove in Chinese legal court that the CAT logo was used commercially by them INSIDE of China first.
It’s a different system. It’s simpler and much easier to prove than anything in the USA.
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