الصين بلد رقمي. وسوق الموسيقى فيها رقمي بالكامل تقريبًا. ولا تشكل المبيعات المادية هنا سوى حوالي 20% من إجمالي السوق. ويبلغ عدد مستخدمي الإنترنت في الصين أكثر من ضعف عدد سكان الولايات المتحدة. ويوجد هنا حوالي 900 مليون مستخدم للإنترنت عبر الهاتف المحمول، 70% منهم يستمعون إلى الموسيقى عبر الإنترنت. وهذا يعني أن هناك حوالي
Contents of this Article: Confirm Legality Create a Contract Protect Your Intellectual Property Comply With Export Control Laws Understand Employment Laws Comply With Tax Rules Lawyers love checklists, and we international business lawyers are no exception. Me, I love clients, not only because they are the lifeblood of my law firm and thus my livelihood,
On March 6th, the Standardization Administration of China (SAC) joined with the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) to issue GB/T 35273-2020 《信息安全技术 个人信息安全规范》 , or “Information Security Technology – Personal Information Security Specification,” which will come into effect on October 1, 2020. This 2020 Specification will replace GB/T 35273-2017, which has been in effect
قانون حقوق النشر الصيني، بصيغته الحالية، ساري المفعول منذ عام 2010، وقد طُرحت منذ ذلك الحين العديد من مقترحات التعديل. وقد أصدر المجلس الوطني لنواب الشعب مؤخرًا مسودة تعديل أخرى وطلب تعليقات الجمهور عليها. وبحسب ما أعلم، فإن هذه هي المسودة الخامسة منذ عام 2010. في منشور صدر مؤخرًا
China Trademark Registrations Recently, I ran across an article Dan Harris wrote on China’s trademark laws way back in 2007, entitled China Trademark Law: Simple and Effective. As I read the article, it struck me that it could have just as well have been written, almost word for word, in 2024: Members of the media
China manufacturing has gotten riskier and more difficult. Our China manufacturing lawyers hear this pretty much every single day from our own clients. On the one hand you have rapidly rising harassment of foreigners going on in China. Not a day goes by anymore without a long media story on the growing xenophobia in China.
Both here on the blog and in real life with our clients, our China lawyers are always touting the benefits of licensing products, intellectual property, brands, technology and content to China. Licensing deals make sense under many circumstances, but they make particular sense in situations where it is difficult or impossible to get your product,
Many months ago, an American company emailed me in a panic after reading a Linkedin post “your law firm” wrote on the need to register your brand name as a trademark in China as soon as possible. This company and I corresponded back and forth about why securing trademarks in China is so important and
Contents of this Article: How the new Foreign Investment Law will change intellectual property rights for foreign companies in China Overview of foreign direct investment (FDI) protections for intellectual property rights (IPR) in mainland China FDI Reform: the New National Statute Will Overhaul Current FDI Protections for IPR The FIL Overhaul Will Maintain and Build
In China’s New Cybersecurity Program: NO Place to Hide and again in China’s New Cybersecurity System: There is NO Place to Hide we wrote how China’s new “cybersecurity” laws give the Chinese government and its prized companies full and total access to all data and IP held by foreign companies. Yesterday, in China’s New Cryptography Law: Still No Place to
