The Wisdom of the Bartow

About this Episode

After fighting with Skype, Ann Bartow joins us to discuss her experience living, teaching, and researching law and especially IP law in China. Also: feedback, Kerbal Space Program, existential angst, and more.

This show’s links:

• Ann Bartow’s faculty profile and writing
• Kerbal Space Program
• The Philosophy Bites podcast
• Open Yale Courses, Phil 176: Death
• Renowned IP Scholar Ann Bartow to Lead Franklin Pierce Center for Intellectual Property at UNH Law
• Ann Bartow, Privacy Laws and Privacy Levers: Online Surveillance versus Economic Development in the People's Republic of China
• Lijia Zhang, China’s Death-Penalty Debate (noting the changing approach to the death penalty in China and the 2007 move by China’s Supreme Court to assert jurisdiction over death penalty appeals); see also Wikipedia on capital punishment in China (noting more details of the post-2007 appellate procedure)
• About Chinese patent law
• China’s IP-related laws and other information as collected by the World Intellectual Property Organization
• Jeffrey Podoshen, Materialism and Conspicuous Consumption in China
• China Economic Review, Chinese Shoppers Begin to Master the Art of Subtlety
• About WeChat
• China Law and Practice, Copyright Administration Gives in to Musicians
• China Retains on Foreign Film Quota (noting that, as of February 2014, the foreign film quota was thirty-four films per year)
• Eric Priest, Copyright Extremophiles: Do Creative Industries Thrive or Just Survive in China's High Piracy Environment?