In the end of XIX century, the United States of America faced the huge pressure from the foreign countries to improve the IPR protection. The USA was regarded as one of the most dangerous violator of the IPR rights due to the high level of piracy in the country. Although, in the beginning of the XX century, the amount of domestic items requiring the IPR protection, increased and the leadership of the country faced the necessity to turn its performance into the IPR protector. In addition, through the previous years the leadership of the state did no deem it was necessary to improve the framework of IPR protection as it could benefit the foreign writers only in damage of the domestic authors. Furthermore, with the fact that the USA became the net producer of IPR works, these items should be protected in the reasonable manner, while such countries as Canada did no provide the protection of the works for foreign writers. In this respect, the USA voluntarily changed its approach to the primary protector of the IPR works (Peng).
How can the lessons from this episode of IPR history in the United States help inform today’s US-China IPR debate?
The stages of the development of the IPR framework in the USA in relation to its cooperation with China may assist in the consideration of the necessity to increase the level of the protection of several items falling within the scope of IPR in order to prevent the abuse and committing the piracy actions. China should understand that the high and reliable level of the protection of the IPR rights in the country leads to the increased governmental revenue received from the payments for the protection, etc. At the same time, the relevant level of IPR protection will form the basis for the fair attitude from the other states to the works created by the domestic authors.
Works Cited
Peng, Mike W. Global Business. 4th ed. Mason, OH: South-Western Cengage Learning, 2016. Print.
