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Mathew Alderson

About the author Mathew Alderson is a partner at law firm Harris Bricken Attorneys & Consultants. An Australian-qualified entertainment lawyer with more than 20 years experience, Mathew has lived in Beijing since 2009. In China his clients include major Hollywood studios, producers, agencies, directors and writers. Mathew enjoys a practice ranging from the acquisition of Chinese literary properties to co-development deals, co-production deals and distribution and financing arrangements. His work also includes the structuring of foreign-invested entities, music licensing and intellectual property protection generally. Mathew is Chair of the Media & Entertainment Forum of the American Chamber of Commerce in China and a regular contributor to www.chinalawblog.com

Copyright Takedowns in China, Part V: The End of Online Anonymity?

Jun 1, 2016  /  Legal  / 
Copyright infringers in China are only required to identify themselves to the copyright owner if the infringers object to the takedown. Read More

Doing a Deal in China? Get a Company Search Report First

May 10, 2016  /  Legal  / 
Confirm your Chinese partner company exists and whether it's in good standing with the law. Read More

Protecting Copyright Online in China: Register First

Jan 29, 2016  /  Legal  / 
If you ever expect to have infringing content taken down, the single most important thing you should do is register your copyright in China in advance. Read More

Copyright Pledges in China Film & TV Finance

Oct 6, 2015  /  Legal  / 
Though a framework exists, the registration of pledges is not yet common in the Chinese film and TV business. Read More

China’s Film Industry Online, Part 4. It’s About Copyrights.

Oct 6, 2015  /  Legal  / 
This is the final post in a series looking at developments in China’s digital ancillaries market. In this series we’ve seen that China’s ancillaries are still comparatively small despite explosive box office growth. In part 1, I looked at how China leads the world in online consumption and how China’s consumers prefer to use mobile Read More

China’s Film Industry Online, Part 3. Production and Distribution Converge in Cyberspace

Oct 6, 2015  /  Legal  / 
This is the third in a series of posts looking at developments in China’s digital ancillaries market. Part I is here and Part II is here. In this post I comment on the impending online convergence of motion picture production and motion picture distribution in China. Online giants Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent (collectively, “BAT”) have each Read More

China’s Film Industry Online, Part 2. Mobile is Key

Oct 6, 2015  /  Legal  / 
This is the second in a series of posts on developments in China’s digital ancillaries market. Part 1 is here. In this post I consider the potential for growth in ancillary revenues from handheld devices. With around 380 million Internet shoppers expected by 2016, China is leading the world in online consumption. As Alibaba founder, Read More

China’s Film Industry Online, Part I

Oct 6, 2015  /  Legal  / 
China’s theatrical box office market may be huge but the ancillary revenues (i.e. non-box office) are still relatively small in China. This is the first in a series of posts on developments in China’s digital ancillaries in a lead-up to the US-China Film Summit, which I will be attending along with a number of other lawyers from Read More

China Motion Picture Copyrights

Oct 6, 2015  /  Legal  / 
China joined WIPO (the World Intellectual Property Organization) in 1980 and it introduced its first copyright law in 1990. China adopted modern intellectual property laws as a condition of joining the WTO (the World Trade Organization) in 2001. Read More

China Entertainment Contracts, 101

Oct 6, 2015  /  Legal  / 
I touched on this topic during my recent webinar for the China-Britain Business Council about China Film Intellectual Property. Most of my comments apply equally to all industries, not just the film industry. Chinese contracts are usually simpler and shorter than contracts used in the West. The specialized vocabulary taken for granted in Western film contracts Read More

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