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China resents appearance on America’s worst infringer list
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 25 May 2010
China’s foreign ministry has dismissed claims by the US that the Chinese government is failing to crack down on copyright piracy.
The US, who like to publish lists of what they consider to be the worst countries for copyright infringement from time to time (they normally include Canada on the list, just to piss off their pesky neighbours), last week named China and Russia as the nations with most work to do to stop copyright infringement. No surprise there, really. But Chinese officials aren’t happy with accusations they aren’t doing enough to stop piracy.
The Foreign Ministry’s spokesman Ma Zhaoxu told reporters yesterday that China had implemented wide-ranging policies to combat the piracy of films, music, games and other entertainment products and that US political types should “respect that fact and stop making groundless accusations against China”.
Presumably Zhaoxu’s colleagues will say as much at meetings between the Chinese government and US Secretary Of State Hillary Clinton which are currently taking place in Beijing. Although those meetings will cover a wide range of issues, intellectual property and the protection there-of is known to be high up America’s agenda.
