In general, when CC was introduced
to China as a new initiative, it faced an environment where Confucianism still
had a significant legacy, and where the authoritarian control of information
persisted, and the privatization of creative works was emerging. In these
circumstances, a movement that was started in order to combat the overexpansion
of copyright changed course. I explain here how it was transformed into a
platform for educating Chinese people about the importance of copyright
protection. More broadly, CC China has also contributed to the prevalence of
proprietary discourse, as well as to discourses on personal rights. This is
unfolding at two different levels. Firstly, for individual bloggers who have
adopted CC licenses, the CC symbol is primarily a statement of copyright
ownership, rather than placing restrictions on such ownership. Secondly, CC
licenses help civil society groups and NGOs carve out a communicative space
between the state and the market.
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