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Tianxiang He

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Tianxiang He is Assistant Professor at the School of Law, City University of Hong Kong. Dr He holds an LLB degree (Huaqiao University, China, 2007) and a Master degree in International Law (Jinan University, China, 2009). Dr He received his degree of Ph.D. in IP law at Maastricht University (the Netherlands, 2016), where he was Researcher at the Department of International and European Law, and PhD Fellow at Institute for Globalization and International Regulation (IGIR), and another PhD degree in Criminal Law at Renmin University of China (2017).

From August 2012 to July 2013, Dr He worked in the Research Center for the Legal Systems of Intellectual Property of Waseda University as a visiting researcher. In Europe, the Ius Commune Research School conferred to him an Honorable Mention in the Ius Commune Prize 2014.

As of the 1st of August 2016, Dr He is working as Assistant Professor at the School of Law of the City University of Hong Kong. Dr He is also acting as an External Fellow in IGIR, Maastricht University. His research interest lies in international and comparative intellectual property law and criminal law.

Research

Publications

Dr He is the author of Copyright and Fan Productivity in China: A Cross-jurisdictional Perspective. Other representative publications include:

  • ‘Control or Promote? China’s Cultural Censorship System and Its Influence on Copyright Protection,’ 7 Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property no.1, 74-98 (2017);
  • ‘Fansubs and Market Access of Foreign Audiovisual Products in China: The Copyright Predicament and the Use of No Action Policy,’ 16 Oregon Review of International Law 307 (2014); and
  • ‘What Can We Learn from Japanese Anime Industries? The Differences between the Domestic and Oversea Copyright Protection Strategies towards Fan Activities’, 62 American Journal of Comparative Law 1009 (2014).

 

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