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["Eric Eldred" <ericeldred AT gmail.com>]

Maybe we can use this in our education about CC in HK and China.
The government may or may change IP laws; we can do our part anyway.

http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/shdaily_opinion.asp?id=312881&type=Opinion

World will gain by success of China economic model
	
	
By Joseph Stiglitz 
2007-04-17

....

As China moves away from export-led growth, it will have to look for
new sources of dynamism in its growing entrepreneurial ranks, which
requires a commitment to creating an independent innovation system. 
 
But
if China wants a dynamic innovation system, it should resist pressure
by Western governments to adopt the kind of unbalanced intellectual
property laws that are being demanded. Instead, it should pursue a
"balanced" intellectual property regime: Because knowledge itself is
the most important input in the production of knowledge, a badly
designed intellectual property regime can stifle innovation - as has
been the case in America in some areas.
 
Western technological
innovation has focused too little on reducing the adverse environmental
impact of growth, and too much on saving labor - something that China
has in abundance. So it makes sense for China to focus its scientific
prowess on new technologies that use fewer resources. That may require
innovative approaches, quite different from intellectual property
regimes based on privatization and monopolization of knowledge, with
the high prices and restricted benefits that follow.