Even Chinese net users are having difficulty stomaching these photographs, which seem to take the unique Chinese approach to respecting intellectual property to new heights (or depths):
Via Heaven.
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lol
are those jokes?
they are all lined up
>_>
maybe the owner has nothing else to think
Buckstar? With a different logo and some decent coffee that could work.
pizza huh? LOL THEY 4GOT THERE LINE'S XD
pizza huh~
Piracy Lane... my new favorite street.
Wowesome,a road full of faked brand premises. The last pic somewhat brings a creepy ghost town atmosphere..
If you look closely you'll see that all stores are empty. The signs were probably made to make the place look more attractive for parties interested in renting commercial property there.
I guess in China, copyright and intellectual properties mean nothing.
I'm glad it was 1 eleven instead of 9 eleven...
Brilliant idea on the developers' part to attract attention to available commercial space.
The only thing better would be naked bitches. Man, I'd buy some naked bitches.
Then there's also Fake rice & fake egg case. Seriously, ths is what happens when have materialistic culture.
LOL Pizza HUH
Guess they can't get away with it in real life like they can in anime.
first step in world domination of made in china
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This is obviously a prank! Look at the shops, they are located next to each other
Looks more like the mutants are breeding to me.
I am probably late to reply on this.
Once I thought they are stupid faked shops, but one time in China I found that those are used at unfinished and unrented buildings to try to signify they would be rented by famous stores.
So...... they are not actually fake ones in terms of operating stores, but still they are fake signs.
I laughed, then got annoyed.
文安街in南京, eh? Maybe I will visit that place this december haha.
Interesting to see if they are still around by then... I suppose they would be?
pics looks too old to be around...
Yeah I guess trademarks are somewhat different from copyright. However people should decide what to buy from the quality of the product, not by the name written on it. Even the same company's products are good in one country and crap in another sometimes... Trademarks...well, I think the products should be identified by the company name, and product name, like "PS2 from Sony", or "Hamburger from McDonalds". As long as laws don't allow two companies of the same name, there is no problem, even if the product name is the same. Having a similar but different name is not exactly fair, but people should pay more attention when buying, that's all. If they don't read the name, only think, "yeah it looks like it usually does", well then it's their fault. I once bought a 4th edition card on ebay instead of 4 pieces of it...And it was obviously my fault, I didn't read it, just looked "yeah this is also 4 like the other was". So in this case the Chinese are right. I doubt there are any REAL McDonalds in China that can lose customers anyway.
Writing Sony on your product if you are not Sony should be illegal, that I agree with. Writing Sonny with "nn" is ok, however. If someone is stupid enough to buy a Sonny Ps2 instead of an original, he deserves it. This is the same as if you don't read a contract and sign it, it's also your fault.
As for IP laws... here is what should be done IMHO :
The information needs to be made only once, no matter whether it is a book, movie or something else. So it should be paid for only once, by the entity who needs the product to be made. In case of essential software for everyday life,like operating systems firewalls, and basic applications, governments, or something like a United Governments of the World could pay for the development. (Yeah we are far from that, but all countries are paying for such stuff anyway so it's better for governments too.) For more specialized software, a countrywide or even worldwide union of people in that field of work could pay. For anime, music and other things in entertainment business, a county (for localised version) or worldwide (for the original (English/Japanese or where it is being made) version) union of TV channels, radios, and movie theaters could be the one paying. After it's been made and paid for, everyone on the planet should be allowed to access it for free. In this system, if the actual work done is not good enough (bad anime, bad quality OS etc), it won't be accepted, and paid for, unlike the current system where marketing is more important than the actual quality of products, as that makes more people buy it, quality is only secondary in most places.
Think about it...what did Microsoft make the richest company in only a few years? They made one copy of windows and sold it about a few hundred million times at least. That's obviously not fair. If I were to make a car...I couldn't sell it more than once.
I agree that IP with digital information has to be changed. But I don't think you can compare it to physical objects, like cars. Software is infinitesimally easy to duplicate and distribute, unlike cars, unless you are saying two tons of metals, plastics, and rubber, and gas for transportation, and man hours for construction, are equal to the plastic in a dvd and electricity for a dvd burner.
The problem is that it's so easy to duplicate someone's work in the digital world. That doesn't mean that the original product took less work to design, plan, and develop. Many popular programs take years to develop, thousands of man hours to produce, just like cars take years to design and develop. It's just the problem of duplication of that design, and distribution.
No. Just no.
I admit "Pizza Huh" Is catchy. They should make a new brand from that, not even trying to rip off the Hut. But I will be avoiding food from China like the plague. I prefer my protein not replaced by plastic resin.
tl;dr
I could swear that this is a prank... Photoshoped?
prank? have you seen the chinese automotive industry? Many models are total ripoffs of real brands!
But having all these knock off stores next to eachother in the same block is a little suspect.
also the animation industry. they are totally without shame.
For a moment I thought it was one of those restaurants on-screen that anime usually has...
Then I realized it was China.
My thoughts exactly!
Well, someone still need to do a "brand name rip-off on animes" video, pic or topic.
xD pensé lo mismo
At first I laughed, then I cried...
Oh U China~
You make us cry ;A;
Creativity being abused.
Man, the McDnoald's weren't even trying. I mean, Pizza Huh was at least an awesome name.
Anyone remember Shrek 2?
Anyway, here in Malaysia, there's one location with two or three restaurants close to each other which deliberately ripped off KFC, Burger King and Mcdonalds. I think it's some kind of tourist joke. I saw it with my own eyes....
I think it was KMC or something like that. I couldn't get a photo of them though.
KLG in Ipoh? I LOLed hard at them.
Pizza...huh?
Well you guys were being fooled by the topic. These were a little trick devised by a real estimate developer who want to attract eyeballs. They are not real businesses. Take a closer look, there are nothing inside the glass and all these doorways are in a same style. The chinese sign in photo 2 & 8 have told you what it was for. it says "available for leasing".
bingo! you got the right answer.
Pizza Huh reminds me of Pizza Kapu(Cap), this pizza place in Japan that got it's name from the Pizza Hut logo looking similar to a hat.
dude! this is just for fun!
the property developers just want to make a "virtual plaza" and not to violate those stores' trademark copyright.
If there are any chinese speakers, did anyone else found Pizza HUH and wantons as funny as i did? :P
WTF?!
chinese people are idiots!!!
This is a great example to show us how unreasonable the entire concept of "intellectual property" is. Information is not a physical object, it cannot be treated the same way objects are. Copyright laws should be replaced by something based on an entirely different concept.
I'm a supporter of reforming copyright laws, but this is a terrible example.
Trademarks are not copyrights. Unlike copyrights which only benefit the owner, trademarks are important to everyone because they allow consumers to identify trustworthy products. Infringement of trademark has more serious implications than infringement of copyright because it destroys a fundamental requirement for proper trade to exist.
Without enforced trademark laws, there will be chaos because regulations such as drug laws and product safety requirements will become meaningless when no one can even be sure whose product is faulty.
Wait...
McDonalds + trustworthy products?
What planet do you live on?
In that case, they also allow you to identify products that you should avoid.
Without trademark laws, McDonalds can simply rename itself Subway.
Uh, McDonalds does have trustworthy product, by and large.
The fact is that NOTHING they have sold for the past 30 years is ANY less or more 'healthy' than what is made in the average American home.
i don't imagine every chinese is as underhanded as the business counterpart. that would be like assuming i am a fat, stupid, warmonger just because i am from america.
lol china man talking about trademark laws
Huh? What would you replace IP laws with?
If we didn't have IP laws, we'd see this crap EVERYWHERE, not just in china.
This is quite possibly one of the funniest things I've seen in my entire life.
you're linking trademark laws to copyright laws?! god you're an idiot.
It seems you misunderstand how the courts interpret and apply Intellectual Property Laws. In most democratic republics, the test of whether there is infringement of intellectual property rights is not determined simply by the name or design, but by the tendency to cause confusion among the relevant majority of the buying public. It takes into consideration the nature of the product and the degree of diligence the buying public would usually exercise on buying the product.