However, traditional China people have no awareness of intellectual property rights. Because the purpose of Chinese people's study is to "learn martial arts, and the goods are in the emperor's house." If there is anything, if it can be seen by emperors and princes and used by emperors, it is really a matter of ancestral graves. It is too late to be grateful. What intellectual property rights can be discussed? In Kong Yiji's place, stealing books is not "stealing", let alone just "stealing" some words. In fact, every dynasty in ancient China, even every emperor, even bureaucrats, had their own imperial or leisure literati. They are proud that their ideas and words can be adopted by their owners. Where is the intellectual property right? This is very different from western think tanks. The premise of the existence of western think tanks is whose wisdom and intellectual property rights are clear. You can use it if you want, but specify whose idea, whose idea and whose plan you quoted. For example, whether the economic development of the United States uses "Keynesian theory" or "Nash equilibrium", intellectual property rights are clear. In the west, the punishment for infringement of intellectual property rights such as plagiarism and piracy is very severe. However, in our place, seeing things is almost commonplace.
Forget about ancient China. That is the product of a specific era. However, in recent decades, this situation has become worse. China accidentally became the biggest kingdom of plagiarism and piracy in the world. Those cloning techniques are so high that they can be faked. However, the investigation was very ineffective and the punishment was lighter. What's more, local governments openly act as an umbrella for fraud. It is also euphemistically called: escorting the development of the economy is actually only local protectionism to protect the act of stealing chickens and dogs.
The most obvious is probably the Cultural Revolution, when there was a writing team in Beijing and a writing team in Shanghai. It is said that Master Yu is an important member of this writing group. At that time, Master Yu was still young, but he was already quite talented and was highly valued by the leaders at that time. At that time, no matter how talented you were and how beautiful your articles were, they were all the results of collective labor, and most of your names were pseudonyms. Not to mention the person who is the leading secretary, writing and writing all day, but not a word is signed by himself. Either writing a speech to the leader, or drafting a report or planning for the leader, the secretary is actually a qualified legal gunman who is paid. This is very different from the Obama think tank in the United States. Although Obama also has some important staff, the source of their ideas and knowledge is clear. From speech to speech, we do it ourselves, and even improvise often, which tests a person's knowledge and wisdom. There are so many secretaries in Mao Zedong that they change from generation to generation. A Mao Xuan, I don't know how many words were written by the secretary. Our nation has long been used to this. As long as a person has certain power, there is no problem of plagiarism and gunmen. At that time, there was no invention patent. If you have an invention, the leader will give you an "innovation expert" certificate, and then your research results will belong to the collective. Such an "innovation expert" is lucky, otherwise, you may still be accused of invention and creation.
It is absolutely unfair to say that "reform and opening up" has brought many problems, but it is also absolutely unfair to say that plagiarism is caused by "reform and opening up". You know, if China does not engage in "reform and opening up" and is not in line with the world, our nation may not even use the word "plagiarism". Now when we open our doors, we finally see people's strict attitude towards academic corruption such as plagiarism, and we know a little shame, which is more or less an improvement. China people's awakening to intellectual property rights has just begun. People haven't realized that plagiarism of ideological knowledge is actually worse than stealing money, and it is more harmful to society. Because the ideological understanding of a society is the bottom line of a social moral law and the last vigil position of a society. If a society is corrupt, but it still retains the analytical and critical functions of universities and intellectuals, and intellectuals still retain the consciousness of seeking truth and social conscience, then the corruption and deviation of this society may be corrected. Otherwise, a society is really rotten to the bone. In fact, in China's academic circles, the punishment for academic corruption such as plagiarism is extremely light, even obviously serious academic fraud, and the social property defrauded by hundreds of millions of yuan has seriously violated the law and will be dealt with in a low-key manner. So far, universities in China have never really dealt with a professor and scholar who seriously plagiarized other people's academic achievements. Never really fired a person for plagiarism and plagiarism. Most of the time, it's just resignation and resignation. Far from western countries. Even compared with Hongkong, Taiwan Province Province and South Korea, there is a huge gap.
A society lacking awareness of intellectual property protection is terrible. Because if this situation is not corrected, a society will lose its originality and lack invention and creation. We can only play the role of cloning and piracy, and we will always be a labor-intensive manufacturing country that lags behind others. The lack of China's invention has much to do with the current poor awareness of knowledge originality. Of course, the reasons for this poor sense of originality and low creative ability are complicated. Most importantly, the official-oriented society is playing an obstacle role. This also includes the combination of politics and learning and the wholesale of master's and doctoral hats in universities. You know, selling fake and fake diplomas in large quantities is actually trampling on the dignity of knowledge and destroying the original ability of our society. Those who don't engage in academic research and education will get their real diplomas one by one as the capital for showing off and promotion. The only way for these people to get their doctorates is to cheat, not to copy them themselves, not to ask gunmen to fix them, or simply to fix the judges. And those who are sincerely engaged in research are excluded from the honor of knowledge. How far are intellectual property rights and intellectual dignity from our society? This is indeed a question worthy of repeated consideration.