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Happy shout-out to me!

IP Dragon was kind enough to write a post about my blog today.

IP Protection in China Challenge Peanuts Compared to China’s Environmental Challenge, Though Parallels Abound

So basically, the work that I’m trying to accomplish–spreading information about China’s environment–is really important. But, as IP Dragon wisely points out, environmental issues do not exist in isolation (just like everything else in Mother Nature), and they transcend through all aspects of life, including IP protection.

Now what has IP protection to do with the environment?

I wrote it before and write it again: The moral implication of buying counterfeited or pirated goods is not only that they infringe the IPRs of the owners, but that it might be manufactured by children, in bad working conditions, pollute the environment etc. Read more here.

China is trying to hush hush staggering statistics to come out in the open about China’s environment, because of fear of social instability. . . .

This points at an other parallel between IP infringements and pollution. The lack of transparency by the Chinese authorities regarding the environment and IP protection and enforcement justifying it by saying that otherwise social instabilty will break out is not sustainable.

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