Site LI

WIPO set “Get up, stand up. For music” as the theme of World IP Day on April 26, 2015, which has been perplexing people all over the world who enjoy, create, record and distribute music. This research will explore the impact of new technologies such as those applied in the recording and access of music and capital on the music industry in China in order to truly understand the relationship between property ownership and technology and capital. Site LI’s hypothesis is that it is the unique Chinese ownership system and the country’s political institutions that play significant roles in this process through manipulation of laws and other political/economic/cultural regulations in regard to new technologies and capital. The music industry has suffered most and has had to change drastically. Ideally, this research will be deepened using cases from other countries.

Site Li obtained a Master’s Degree from Sun Yat-Sen University in 2005 and a Doctoral degree in legal theory at Peking University in 2009. Since 2009, he has worked at South China Normal University and was promoted to associate professor in 2015. He has taught several courses including jurisprudence, law and politics, sociology of law, and Chinese legal culture. His research interests are jurisprudence and the sociology of law and his recent research focuses on the interplay between intellectual property law and culture industry. In addition, he is interested in interdisciplinary research on law and culture and has published several articles in various Chinese academic journals. He is also the principal investigator of the project entitled “Copyright Problems about Music”.

Li Site. “Why Google Chooses Us?” the Frontier of Information and Communication Technology Law, Vol. 1, 225-238 (2015)

Li Site. “Contract Is Status: the Jurisprudence Critique on the Voice of China,” Tsinghua Law Review, Vol. 7, NO. 2, 124-142 (2014)

Li Site. “Privacy and the Limitations of the Privacy Right,” Law and Social Sciences, Vol. 13, 168-183 (2013)

Li Site. “the Deconstruction and Reconstruction of the Theory of Individual Originality,” Journal of South China Normal University, NO. 2, 111-115 (2013)

Li Site. “Public Domain Systems and Traditional Culture Uses,” Tribune of Political Science and Law, Vol. 30, No. 4, 185-191 (2012)