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- BUSINESS, Page 59Business NotesTRADEHands Off Our Thoughts!
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- What the bloody massacre in Beijing's Tiananmen Square failed
- to provoke may now come to pass because of an argument about. . .
- Mickey Mouse. Though the Bush Administration declined to punish
- China for the 1989 crackdown, it announced plans last week to
- unleash retaliatory tariffs worth up to $1.5 billion on Chinese
- exports. The reason: disregard by the Chinese for U.S. patents
- and copyrights covering books, audio and video recordings,
- computer software and such quintessentially American creations as
- Walt Disney's favorite rodent. The Chinese rarely pay for the use
- of such "intellectual property," resulting in serious losses to
- U.S. businesses.
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- American officials view China's six-month-old copyright law
- as weak and have been pushing for tougher compliance in talks
- that went nowhere. With Congress apparently bent on enacting its
- own restrictions, the Administration will now move to recoup
- losses from Beijing's intellectual poaching by imposing tariffs
- on such Chinese goods as beer, watches and athletic shoes.
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