Ministry of Industry and Information Technology Supports Knock-offs

Yang Xueshan, deputy minister of the industry and information technology, expressed support for the imitation of copyrighted products in a news briefing yesterday. Yang said that producers of knock-offs should pay for what they had copied from other products, but that he still supported the manufacturing of cheap knock-offs or "shanzhai" products because imitation can give rise to innovation.

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The Beijing Times

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