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Legal Challenges to Online Education Concerning Intellectual Property: A Study Based on Chinese Judicial Practice

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Published date01 January 2025
DOIhttp://doi.org/10.1177/23220058241302466
AuthorXianwei Zhang
Date01 January 2025
Legal Challenges to Online
Education Concerning Intellectual
Property: A Study Based on
Chinese Judicial Practice
Xianwei Zhang1
Abstract
Since China boasts the highest numbers of online education institutions and users relative to other
countries in the world, it has also been blessed with sufficient materials that may be used for empirical
research. Although some studies have revealed the potential underlying legal risks in online education,
there is still a paucity of scholars who set out to explore how the issues arose during legal practice via
written judgments. This paper sifts through and extracts key information from hundreds of judgments
provided by Chinese courts, based on which its typical issues were discussed. Through the findings
acquired, this research has provided favourable empirical support for subsequent studies.
Introduction
Online education is a novel way of education that employs such modern information technologies as
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2020,3          

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Online education features a wider audience, wider coverage and higher profit/loss to copyrighters in
          
education platforms encounter more new operational challenges, the most critical of which are copyright
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1 Assistant Professor of Law, Shenzhen University, Guangdong, China
2 

3         
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Article
Asian Journal of Legal Education
12(1) 74–85, 2025
© 2024 The West Bengal National
University of Juridical Sciences
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DOI: 10.1177/23220058241302466
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Corresponding author:
Xianwei Zhang, Assistant Professor of Law, Shenzhen University, Guangdong 518060, China.
E-mail: xwzhang@szu.edu.cn

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