This post is from our coverage of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing China, curated by John Kennedy and sponsored by Reuters. · All posts
Reporter-blogger ProState in Flames writes today of Deputy Director General of China's National Copyright Administration Xu Chao's recent statement that the filming of Olympic events for the purpose of blogging has been banned and will be considered copyright violation.
Asks the second commenter on the post: “May I know to whom it is that copyright for the Olympics belongs?”
Shenzhen Fieldnotes translates some mobile text messages on the Sanlu poisonous milk scandal.
Black and white cat translated three blog posts on local bloggers' flash mob visit to one of Beijing's “black jails” (detention center for petitioners).
Recently netizens found out the photo search function of HK Yahoo! has been filtered / re-indexed. Some netizens were worried that such practice is the beginning of political censorship. Ben Crox follows through the discussion in his blog post.
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