Chinese Amusement Park Uncannily Like Disneyland

For those in business who want to believe that the Chinese government really wants to end copyright infringement, look at this article in Hong Kong paper The Standard. On web site Japan Probe there are more pictures of characters and even a setting or two that might be suspiciously familiar. There's also a video that includes the president of the state-owned part claiming that the characters are originals, not rip-offs. Oh, and that odd little character isn't Mickey Mouse - it's a cat with really big ears. At least, that's what they say.

Whether you have sympathy for Disney or not, such a government-controlled enterprise should give any business manager second thoughts about moving any serious enterprise to China ... unless they think that their intellectual property - from product designs to methods of manufacturing and trademarks - are so unimportant that they might as well be given away.