US expert: US, EU worse in piracy than the usual blamed China

That is what Professor Aaron Schwabach at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego says.   He has written a 24-page report that essentially says China, taken as a whole, is not the leading global pirate. When figures are adjusted for population, China's rates of intellectual property violation are lower than those of many industrialized countries, including the United States.

Schwabach says the media and U.S. politicians are prone to China-bashing. He then examines figures on international movie piracy provided by the Motion Picture Association (MPA) and compares those figures to the populations of the countries involved. The report concludes that the problem of movie piracy is more severe in the U.S. than in China and more severe still in other countries, including France, Spain, and the United Kingdom.  Even Mexico has a far higher rate of pirated music CDs than China. (by Fang Fei)

美专家直言美欧盗版问题比中国严重

　　本报讯　美国圣迭哥托马斯?杰斐逊法学院的施瓦巴赫教授近日撰写报告指出，中国不是世界上盗版最猖獗的国家。按人均数来算，美国等一些西方国家的盗版问题比中国更严重。

据美国麦克拉奇报业集团网站报道，施瓦巴赫在这份长达24页的报告中说，就盗版问题，美国媒体和政客都倾向于谴责中国。但他对照了美国电影协会提供的国际电影盗版数据，然后与这些国家的人口数量进行比较研究得出结论，美国、法国、西班牙、英国等很多国家盗版问题都比中国严重，甚至墨西哥的CD盗版问题都比中国严重。 （方 菲）