Description

After fighting with Skype, Ann Bartow joins us to discuss her experience living, teaching, and researching law and especially IP law in China. Also: feedback, Kerbal Space Program, existential angst, and more.

This show’s links:

• Ann Bartow’s faculty profile and writing
• Kerbal Space Program
• The Philosophy Bites podcast
• Open Yale Courses, Phil 176: Death
• Renowned IP Scholar Ann Bartow to Lead Franklin Pierce Center for Intellectual Property at UNH Law
• Ann Bartow, Privacy Laws and Privacy Levers: Online Surveillance versus Economic Development in the People's Republic of China
• Lijia Zhang, China’s Death-Penalty Debate (noting the changing approach to the death penalty in China and the 2007 move by China’s Supreme Court to assert jurisdiction over death penalty appeals); see also Wikipedia on capital punishment in China (noting more details of the post-2007 appellate procedure)
• About Chinese patent law
• China’s IP-related laws and other information as collected by the World Intellectual Property Organization
• Jeffrey Podoshen, Materialism and Conspicuous Consumption in China
• China Economic Review, Chinese Shoppers Begin to Master the Art of Subtlety
• About WeChat
• China Law and Practice, Copyright Administration Gives in to Musicians
• China Retains on Foreign Film Quota (noting that, as of February 2014, the foreign film quota was thirty-four films per year)
• Eric Priest, Copyright Extremophiles: Do Creative Industries Thrive or Just Survive in China's High Piracy Environment?