Protection on Architecture Works in China Copyright Law
Recently, Ms. Zhang Xin, the CEO of SOHO China claimed on Weibo the design of Wangjing SOHO of her company is copied by a community in Chongqing (note: the link is in Chinese), and this weibo is also forwarded by Mr. Pan Shiyi, the chairman of the board of SOHO and restated the plagiarism. Meanwhile, the official Weibo of SOHO also expressed its feeling of helpless and put up a question that could the copyright of architecture works be protected in China? To this question, in our view, the answer is definitely “YES”. And there are three main protection way to the appearance of architecture in China law system: