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Intellectual property rights - now there's a thing to talk about. Wars will be fought over them. Where do the Chinese stand on this?

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Slim Buddha wrote:

evercloserunion wrote:: Indeed there are. Considering the large part that property and real estate have played in our current woes I have been trying to find a way to bring land law into topical discussion but it doesn't easily lend itself to free and open discourse.

Wylie??

The cheapest anaesthetic known to man.

Come on now...

Wylie's far from cheap.

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cactus flower wrote:: Intellectual property rights - now there's a thing to talk about. Wars will be fought over them. Where do the Chinese stand on this?

Shoulder to shoulder with the Russians and anyone else who has limited interest in such considerations at present.

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evercloserunion wrote:: Indeed there are. Considering the large part that property and real estate have played in our current woes I have been trying to find a way to bring land law into topical discussion but it doesn't easily lend itself to free and open discourse.

I've been thinking about that quite a bit lately too but I think the starting point might be local government and its rules and procedures and planning legislation. I'm fascinated at the moment by county development and local area plans.

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cactus flower wrote:: Intellectual property rights - now there's a thing to talk about. Wars will be fought over them. Where do the Chinese stand on this?

IP is a very interesting topic indeed. Do we have any other users of Linux here I wonder? I started a thread on internet piracy there and it got a few responses. I suppose the topic was a bit abstract though.