Insiders say there is no telling how the case will shake out. While China already has a world-class set of intellectual property laws on the books, this is largely because such a framework is a requirement of the country’s membership to the World Trade Organization. “The trouble is that this framework has been grafted onto a society that simply has no frame of reference for the underlying concepts,” says Mathew Alderson, a partner at Harris Moure specializing in media, entertainment and IP law, and Co-Chair of the American Chamber of Commerce’s Media & Entertainment forum in Beijing.
Mathew Alderson in The Hollywood Reporter
