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SPIDEY ALREADY AVAILABLE IN CHINA Tuesday, April 24 2007 Spider-Man 3 may not be scheduled to debut in U.S. theaters until May 3 (midnight showings), but pirated copies of the movie are already being bootlegged in China, Reuters reported today (Tuesday). The wire service observed that DVD copies of the movie are selling for about one dollar and sport cover art that appears to have been copied from posters widely available online. And, in the Chinese equivalent of chutzpah, there is even a warning on (more) CHINA REJECTS U.S. COMPLAINT TO WTO Tuesday, April 17 2007 China today (Tuesday) responded to a U.S. complaint to the World Trade Organization that it has failed to crack down on copyright piracy. Yi Xintian, a spokesman for the State Intellectual Property Office, said that his country "has made tremendous efforts and taken a lot of steps to protect intellectual property rights." Yi argued that piracy is an international issue that affects many countries. He pointed to studies indicating that Canada is responsible for the (more) |
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Sony Pictures on Tuesday denied a Reuters report that bootleg DVD copies of Spider-Man 3 were already showing up in China for $1.00 per copy. In a statement, Sony said, "Our investigation in China has revealed no case of the film being pirated to date. Similar hoaxes and false alarms have occurred prior to the release of other major films. We have uncovered examples of Spider-Man 2 being sold in Spider-Man 3 boxes in China. But thus far we can find no instance where Spider-Man 3 has appeared on DVD." Sony also maintained that no copies of the film have turned up on the Internet.
