http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lv-disneyland/ Engadget Comments for Keepin' it real fake, part LV: Disneyland! http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lv-disneyland/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lv-disneyland/May 4th 2007 4:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lv-disneyland/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lv-disneyland/
"Some have claimed that the park is illegally copying Disney’s Minnie Mouse. However, the park’s operators have insisted that the character on the right is not a mouse. It is a cat with very large ears!"

I thought the Chinese coppied gadgets to show what they can do technological-wise. But this is just weird.]]>May 4th 2007 4:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lv-disneyland/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lv-disneyland/May 4th 2007 4:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lv-disneyland/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lv-disneyland/

I mean, what great innovation.
And coincidence.]]>May 4th 2007 4:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lv-disneyland/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lv-disneyland/May 4th 2007 5:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lv-disneyland/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lv-disneyland/http://www.bs-amusement-park.com/. Does that not tell you something? Isn't there enough China-bashing from US fear-profiteers? Why don't we leave the country that makes all the gadgets you report on alone?]]>May 4th 2007 5:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lv-disneyland/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lv-disneyland/May 4th 2007 11:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lv-disneyland/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lv-disneyland/May 4th 2007 4:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lv-disneyland/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lv-disneyland/
Oh well!

Perhaps Disney will try and sue China... That could be interesting.]]>May 4th 2007 5:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lv-disneyland/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lv-disneyland/May 5th 2007 1:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lv-disneyland/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lv-disneyland/May 6th 2007 3:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lv-disneyland/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lv-disneyland/
Really, though.]]>May 4th 2007 5:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lv-disneyland/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lv-disneyland/May 4th 2007 5:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lv-disneyland/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lv-disneyland/
Obviuosly to the chinesem, nothing even exsists outside of china]]>May 4th 2007 6:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lv-disneyland/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lv-disneyland/http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=39.911275,116.202500&spn=0.003192,0.002951&t=k&hl=en]]>May 4th 2007 6:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lv-disneyland/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lv-disneyland/May 4th 2007 7:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lv-disneyland/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lv-disneyland/May 4th 2007 8:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lv-disneyland/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lv-disneyland/
Yes, the Chinese take more pride in building machines that can copy an exact replica of US automobiles and stamp them out en masse, than doing something on their own. But when you go from a 3rd world country to a quickly emerging superpower, why should you obey by the same global regulations that others follow? Seriously, who's going to stop you? :-D

But you can't really blame them... if the U.S. and other countries (everyone in the UN?) banned imports from China, this wouldn't be happening in the first place. Oh well, we'll live with the consequences if we all start speaking Chinese one day, hehe.]]>May 4th 2007 9:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lv-disneyland/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lv-disneyland/May 4th 2007 9:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lv-disneyland/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lv-disneyland/
To a capitalist nation, reproducing someone else's design is "ripping off". To a communist nation, patenting a design for exclusivity is "capitalist pigism"]]>May 4th 2007 9:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lv-disneyland/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lv-disneyland/May 4th 2007 9:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lv-disneyland/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lv-disneyland/]]>May 4th 2007 10:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lv-disneyland/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lv-disneyland/Disney land is too far! Come to Beijing Amusement park!

http://www.bs-amusement-park.com/ChinaIn/about-e.asp]]>May 4th 2007 5:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lv-disneyland/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lv-disneyland/>China is a communist nation. China does not have copyright or patent laws and does not recognize copyrights or patents from other nations.

Really??? Yes - that's the state of patent law in China in 1968. For those of us who live in 2007, there is Google to keep us from making fools of ourselves:

http://www.sipo.gov.cn/sipo_English/flfg/zlflfg/200203/t20020327_33872.htm

http://www.sipo.gov.cn/sipo_English/flfg/

Obviously China has not been good at enforcing patent laws - but only a bunch of american's would fill tech blog with Naive, out-of-date Dogma like this! These comments are just embarassing you guys! jesus...

Do you really think western comapnies would invest the billions that they invest in China, if there was no patent laws ( along with western-style laws that govern all other aspects of business)?

Again: they are doing a bad job of enforcing them - but that is slowly changing too.
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do,do,do,do
do,do,do,do]]>May 4th 2007 12:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lv-disneyland/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lv-disneyland/May 4th 2007 4:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lv-disneyland/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lv-disneyland/
There is a Disneyland in HK, but there are too many travel restrictions (lengthy process just to visit) for Mainlanders and it's still too expensive for a majority of the populace. They need something more local with less travel restricitons to be affordable enough.

Now none of this excuses China's blatant copyright infridgement. I'm sure Disney would love to open a Disneyland in Mainland China with enough guarrantees. But China will never give the sort of guarrantees Disney is looking for. China keeps all the money local by knowingly infringing on patents/copyrights for products limited to their own markets. The Chinese government has zero incentive to honor those patents/copyrights when they are profiting like they are. I mean, why give foreign companies a piece of your pie, when you can just keep the whole thing to yourself right? Especially when you are the law. (International law doesn't seem to apply to China, in case you haven't noticed)]]>May 4th 2007 2:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lv-disneyland/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lv-disneyland/May 4th 2007 2:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lv-disneyland/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lv-disneyland/May 4th 2007 2:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lv-disneyland/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lv-disneyland/May 4th 2007 4:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lv-disneyland/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lv-disneyland/http://www.japanprobe.com/2007/01/fake-donald-duck.jpg
I think the kid was figuring out how to make Peking Duck :)]]>May 4th 2007 5:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lv-disneyland/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lv-disneyland/It was created by Eva Peron (remember Madonna´s "Evita" movie? )
The size of the buildings is scaled down to fit children as adults.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disneyland#Concept_and_construction
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=republica+de+los+ni%C3%B1os]]>May 9th 2007 7:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lv-disneyland/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lv-disneyland/
Ummmmm... What?]]>Jun 23rd 2007 1:08PM