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Beatrix Potter court victory deals blow to China's publishing pirates
From: The Independent on Sunday
Date: 20050911
Author:David Eimer in Beijing
Peter Rabbit, Tom Kitten and Jemima Puddle-Duck have scored a rare victory over China's army of pirates and plagiarists. After a two- year odyssey through the Chinese legal system, a state-owned Chinese publishing house has been banned from using Beatrix Potter's own illustrations in an unauthorised Chinese-language version of her much- loved children's books.
The landmark judgment in favour of Frederick Warne and Co, a subsidiary of Penguin Books, is subject to appeal, but it is one of the few occasions when a Chinese court has found in favour of a foreign company. The decision comes as ...
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