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Author: Yang Lai Publisher: ISBN: Category : Copyright Languages : en Pages : 377
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Learning never ends in the classroom. This dissertation is a mixed methods study exploring how Chinese fans continue to learn informally in cyberspace as they gain and practice knowledge of copyright via their online fan activities. Based on a large-sample online survey and in-depth qualitative interviews, this dissertation found that online fan activities have been the main channel through which Chinese fans gain copyright knowledge and have profoundly influenced their attitudes and actions towards copyright issues. Although generational differences influence the learning trajectories of fans, basic knowledge about rules for copyrights established by early fans have been disseminated and accepted as community norms. In this process, the state and the content industry policy changes have also influenced fans' attitudes about copyright issues. The findings also suggest that copyright advocacy is a fannish activity within the Chinese digital creative fandom. Chinese fans' copyright awareness, like the Chinese digital creative fandom itself, has developed under the influence of foreign culture. However, it is also driven by a natural enthusiasm for appreciating and protecting the creators in an environment where copyright infringement is rampant. Fans' multiple roles within the fandom make copyright advocacy relevant to most of the community members: they are fans of the original media products, creators of fanworks, and fans and/or friends of fanwork creators. These emotional attachments push fans to engage in copyright discussions and disputes online, which provide numerous learning opportunities for the participants. This research project investigated the nuances and heterogeneity of fans' concerns about copyright, providing new materials for discussions of copyright and fandom, as well as informal learning online. Plagiarism, as a sub-topic of copyright, is also addressed in this dissertation.
Author: Yang Lai Publisher: ISBN: Category : Copyright Languages : en Pages : 377
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Learning never ends in the classroom. This dissertation is a mixed methods study exploring how Chinese fans continue to learn informally in cyberspace as they gain and practice knowledge of copyright via their online fan activities. Based on a large-sample online survey and in-depth qualitative interviews, this dissertation found that online fan activities have been the main channel through which Chinese fans gain copyright knowledge and have profoundly influenced their attitudes and actions towards copyright issues. Although generational differences influence the learning trajectories of fans, basic knowledge about rules for copyrights established by early fans have been disseminated and accepted as community norms. In this process, the state and the content industry policy changes have also influenced fans' attitudes about copyright issues. The findings also suggest that copyright advocacy is a fannish activity within the Chinese digital creative fandom. Chinese fans' copyright awareness, like the Chinese digital creative fandom itself, has developed under the influence of foreign culture. However, it is also driven by a natural enthusiasm for appreciating and protecting the creators in an environment where copyright infringement is rampant. Fans' multiple roles within the fandom make copyright advocacy relevant to most of the community members: they are fans of the original media products, creators of fanworks, and fans and/or friends of fanwork creators. These emotional attachments push fans to engage in copyright discussions and disputes online, which provide numerous learning opportunities for the participants. This research project investigated the nuances and heterogeneity of fans' concerns about copyright, providing new materials for discussions of copyright and fandom, as well as informal learning online. Plagiarism, as a sub-topic of copyright, is also addressed in this dissertation.
Author: Lu Chen Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1315414716 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 194
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How can Japanese popular culture gain numerous fans in China, despite pervasive anti-Japanese sentiment? How is it that there’s such a strong anti-Korean sentiment in Chinese online fan communities when the official Sino-Korean relationship is quite stable before 2016? Avid fans in China are raising hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding to make gifts to their idols in foreign countries. Tabloid reports on Japanese and Korean celebrities have been known to trigger nationalist protests in China. So, what is the relationship between Chinese fandom of Japanese and Korean popular culture and nationalist sentiment among Chinese youth? Chen discusses how Chinese fans of Japanese and Korean popular culture have formed their own nationalistic discourse since the 1990s. She argues that, as nationalism is constructed from various entangled ideologies, narratives, myths and collective memories, popular culture simply becomes another resource for the construction of nationalism. Fans thus actively select, interpret and reproduce the content of cultural products to suit their own ends. Unlike existing works, which focus on the content of transnational cultural flows in East Asia, this book focuses on the reception and interpretation of the Chinese audience.
Author: Tianxiang He Publisher: ISBN: 9789811065095 Category : Copyright Languages : en Pages :
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This book takes a unique approach to mitigate the problem of massive online copyright infringement and justify fan activities. It argues for a cooperative approach that encourages copyright owners to exert a degree of control over their fan creators. In contrast to the current approach, which treats fan utilizations as theft, this book suggests that the copyright owners and the lawmakers should instead distinguish between fan creators and commercial pirates, allowing them unleash their potential. This book offers a clear and comprehensive account of the fascinating aspects of legal problems created by fan activities in China, Japan and the United States, offering a valuable guide for students, practitioners, academics and entrepreneurs whose work involves or who are interested in cutting-edge legal issues in the creative industry. "Tianxiang He introduces us to the world of fandom inhabited by 'fan-subbers', fan-dubbers', 'mash-uppers', and 'fan-fictionists' against the backdrop of copyright law and policy in China. His work is engaging in that it not merely describes the law, but also the political dimension where copyright and state media control converge into a reality where being an artist or a fan is not that straightforward."--Prof. Anselm Kamperman Sanders, Institute for Globalization and International Regulation (IGIR), Faculty of Law, Maastricht University "The tension between copyright holders and fan communities has been increasingly salient yet underexplored. This timely, insightful and deeply engaging book not only fills a niche, but also covers a country that has been rarely examined in this context. The book advances a promising model for the two groups to cooperate. It also explores complex issues concerning political culture, media regulation and civic engagement in China. A must read for anybody interested in copyright law, cultural production, digital technology or Chinese information policy." -- Prof. Peter K. Yu, Professor of Law and Director, Center for Law and Intellectual Property, Texas A & M University School of Law.--
Author: Weiyu Zhang Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317629280 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 169
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There are billions of internet users in China, and this number is continually growing. This book looks at the various purposes of this internet use, and provides a study about how the entertainment-consuming users form into publics through the mediation of technologies in the era of network society. It questions how individuals, mediated by new information and communication technologies, come together to form new social categories. The book goes on to investigate how public(s) is formed in the era of network society, with particular focus on how fans become publics in a society that follows the logic of network. Using online surveys and in-depth interviews, this book provides a rich description of the process of constructing a new social formation in contemporary China.
Author: Tianxiang He Publisher: Springer ISBN: 981106508X Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 271
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This book takes a unique approach to mitigate the problem of massive online copyright infringement and justify fan activities. It argues for a cooperative approach that encourages copyright owners to exert a degree of control over their fan creators. In contrast to the current approach, which treats fan utilizations as theft, this book suggests that the copyright owners and the lawmakers should instead distinguish between fan creators and commercial pirates, allowing them unleash their potential. This book offers a clear and comprehensive account of the fascinating aspects of legal problems created by fan activities in China, Japan and the United States, offering a valuable guide for students, practitioners, academics and entrepreneurs whose work involves or who are interested in cutting-edge legal issues in the creative industry. "Tianxiang He introduces us to the world of fandom inhabited by ‘fan-subbers’, fan-dubbers’, ‘mash-uppers’, and ‘fan-fictionists’ against the backdrop of copyright law and policy in China. His work is engaging in that it not merely describes the law, but also the political dimension where copyright and state media control converge into a reality where being an artist or a fan is not that straightforward." -- Prof. Anselm Kamperman Sanders, Institute for Globalization and International Regulation (IGIR), Faculty of Law, Maastricht University "The tension between copyright holders and fan communities has been increasingly salient yet underexplored. This timely, insightful and deeply engaging book not only fills a niche, but also covers a country that has been rarely examined in this context. The book advances a promising model for the two groups to cooperate. It also explores complex issues concerning political culture, media regulation and civic engagement in China. A must read for anybody interested in copyright law, cultural production, digital technology or Chinese information policy." -- Prof. Peter K. Yu, Professor of Law and Director, Center for Law and Intellectual Property, Texas A&M University School of Law
Author: G. H. Tang Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing ISBN: 0857931075 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 305
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'This brilliant amalgam of law, history, social analysis and some Confucian philosophy argues for a distinctive Chinese approach to copyright and the public interest, aligning not only the Western commitment to individual creativity but also supporting public access to and use of works without the consent of the copyright holder. The argument involves fascinating analysis, not only of evolving Chinese attitudes to education, libraries, archives and censorship, but also of the profound significance of the Internet in China today.' Hector MacQueen, University of Edinburgh, UK 'Guan Hong Tang's book offers a fresh, insightful and scholarly treatment of the relationship between the law of copyright and the public interest in China. Copyright legislation in China is a novelty, dating from 1990, and Dr Tang provides a vivid overview of the historical and cultural tensions between traditional Chinese Confucianism and the very concept of copyright, tensions which more recent legislation and case law seek to address.' Gillian Davies, Hogarth Chambers, UK Guan Hong Tang expertly highlights how the multidimensional concept of public interest has influenced the development and limitations of Chinese copyright. Since 1990 China has awarded copyright individual rights but also provides for public, non-criminal enforcement. The author reveals that pressures of development, globalisation and participation in a world economy have hastened the loss of public interest from copyright. However, for a socialist country, placing the common ahead of the individual interest, the public interest also constitutes a phenomenological tool with which to limit copyright. The author also discusses how the rise of the Internet, which has had a major social and economic impact on China, raises problems for Chinese copyright law. Comparing Chinese copyright law with the USA and the UK, topical issues are presented in this unique book including those arising within education, library and archives sectors. This insightful book will strongly appeal to students and researchers in IP law, comparative law, Chinese studies, international commerce and information science. It will also prove invaluable for lawyers and consultants with expertise in IP and China.
Author: Liu Hailong Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0429825641 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 154
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This book gives a deep description of a new trend in Chinese cyber-nationalism through an examination of Diba Expedition 2016. The eight chapters, written by researchers from the United States and China, touch on the topics of history, mobilization, and the organization of new cyber nationalism; the evolution of symbolic devices; and the impact of information and communications technologies (ICTs), consumerism, fans culture, and Internet subcultures on cyber-nationalism and the political consequences of it. The authors have embedded the Diba Expedition and new cyber-nationalism, which may be called fandom nationalism, in the media ecology of social media, the mobile Internet, the smartphone, and a new generation of ICTs. They also try to explain the change in the Chinese political culture from the turn of the twenty-first century up to now under the impact of official nationalistic education, commercial culture, and the grassroots Internet culture. Readers interested in political culture, Internet culture, and youth culture will find this book helpful in understanding why traditional nationalism, with hatred, anger, and actions in the real world, has evolved into fandom nationalism, with love, satire, and actions in the virtual world, as illustrated in the Diba Expedition.
Author: Wang, Cheng Lu Publisher: IGI Global ISBN: 1799810496 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 605
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Fans of specific sports teams, television series, and video games, to name a few, often create subcultures in which to discuss and celebrate their loyalty and enthusiasm for a particular object or person. Due to their strong emotional attachments, members of these fandoms are often quick to voluntarily invest their time, money, and energy into a related product or brand, thereby creating a group of faithful and passionate consumers that play a significant role in multiple domains of contemporary culture. The Handbook of Research on the Impact of Fandom in Society and Consumerism is an essential reference source that examines the cultural and economic effects of the fandom phenomenon through a multidisciplinary lens and shapes an understanding of the impact of fandom on brand building. Featuring coverage on a wide range of topics such as religiosity, cosplay, and event marketing, this publication is ideally designed for marketers, managers, advertisers, brand managers, consumer behavior analysts, product developers, psychologists, entertainment managers, event coordinators, political scientists, anthropologists, academicians, researchers, and students seeking current studies on the global impact of this particularly devoted community.
Author: Haiping Yan Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 100096471X Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 261
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Focusing on transculturality, this edited volume explores how the role of translation and the idea of (un)translatability in the transformative complementation of different civilizations facilitates the transcultural connection between Chinese and other cultures in the modern era. Bringing together established international scholars and emerging new voices, this collection explores the linguistic, social, and cultural implications of translation and transculturality. The 13 chapters not only discuss the translation of literature, but also break new ground by addressing the translation of cinema, performance, and the visual arts, which are active bearer of modern and contemporary culture that are often neglected by academics. Our volume is ground-breaking in its trans-disciplinary attention to the study of translation related to China and such a trans-disciplinality should serve as a ground-breaking leverage for other areas of humanities as well. Through an engagement with these diverse fields, the title aims not only to reflect on how translation has reproduced values, concepts, and cultural forms, but also to stimulate the emergence of new possibilities in the dynamic transcultural interplay between China and the diverse national, cultural-linguistic, and contexts of Europe, the Americas, and Asia. It shows how cultures have been appropriated, misunderstood, transformed, and reconstructed through processes of linguistic mediation, as well as how knowledge, understanding, and connections have been generated through transculturality. The book will be a must read for scholars and students of translation studies, transcultural studies, and Chinese studies.
Author: Jia Wang Publisher: Springer ISBN: 9783319718309 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 257
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This book critically evaluates the current copyright law system in a digital environment from a comparative perspective. Since many developing countries modelled their copyright laws on more advanced jurisdictions, they have not benefitted from such a law as much as intended due to their inherently embedded social economic conditions. Moreover, the copyright law system has been under constant challenges from rapidly developing digital technology and the Internet. All in all, there is a pressing need for developing countries to reevaluate their copyright law in light of their national needs, the developmental stage of their economy, their culture and tradition, and their legal system. The book poses the question of whether copyright law should be reformed to fulfill its fundamental purpose of serving education and research that are in the public interest in the digital era? It examines whether the legal frameworks adequately address developing countries’ educational and research requirements in view of the opportunities and restrictions posed by electronic communication media. Further, it provides a comprehensive study that addresses the various critical issues relevant to the reform of the copyright law system and offers recommendations for developing countries to revamp their copyright law system to better serve their education and research sector.
Author: Yang Lai
Author: Yang Lai
Author: Lu Chen
Author: Tianxiang He
Author: Weiyu Zhang
Author: Tianxiang He
Author: G. H. Tang
Author: Liu Hailong
Author: Wang, Cheng Lu
Author: Haiping Yan
Author: Jia Wang