Greyscale Legality

The Diverse Landscape of Intellectual Property Law Enforcement in China

Qiaoling He (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

222 Seiten

2025
University of British Columbia Press (Verlag)
9780774871709 (ISBN)

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Poor enforcement of international intellectual property law in non-Western countries is typically blamed on national-level institutional, political, and cultural contexts. However, there are other factors at play, producing uneven efficacy of transplanted laws within a nation. Greyscale Legality analyzes how and why legal transplants perish or thrive by critically examining the application of international IP law across six industries in China. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, Qiaoling He investigates widely differing degrees of IP enforcement in areas such as biomedicine, telecom equipment, and film. She argues that laws, as drafted, function on a greyscale of interpretive and operative ambiguity within the industries where they are applied. National settings may not always be supportive of IP law transplants in reducing such ambiguity, but certain industry-specific directives, such as product standardization, can compensate. Greyscale Legality is an astute study of ways to alleviate legal greyness and generate pockets of legal effectiveness. Its findings can be applied beyond China to other developing countries and other legal areas.

Qiaoling He is an assistant professor in the Sociology Department at Zhejiang University. She is a council member of the Institute of Entertainment Law Research, Beijing, and the recipient of several honours and awards, among them the International Development Research Center (IDRC) Doctoral Research Award and McGill University's Clifford C.F. Wong Fellowship. Her work on intellectual property laws in China has appeared in Social Problems and the Asian Journal of Law and Society.

Introduction: The Unaccounted Complexity of Transplanted Intellectual Property Laws

1 Texts, Context, and Legal Greyness: A Framework

2 "Happy Industries Are All Alike": Chemical Drug Patents and Telecom Equipment Patents

3 "Half a Loaf": A Case of Biomedical Patents

4 Exposed to Legal Greyness: Medical Devices and Traditional Chinese Medicine

5 The Industry with Forking Paths: Film and TV Plagiarism and Piracy

6 Is Grey Law Futile? "Captured Legality" in Chinese Industries

Conclusion

Notes; References; Index

Erscheinungsdatum	23.07.2025
Reihe/Serie	Law and Society
Zusatzinfo	1 b&w photo, 8 graphs
Verlagsort	Vancouver
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Wirtschaftsrecht ► Bank- und Kapitalmarktrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► Wirtschaftsrecht ► Urheberrecht
ISBN-13	9780774871709 / 9780774871709
Zustand	Neuware