Chinese Internet Literature: Preserving Born-Digital Literary Content and Fighting Web Piracy

Authors

C. David Hickey, University of FloridaFollow

Keywords

Chinese Internet, web piracy

Abstract

This paper undertakes to define Chinese internet literature (CIL) and discuss the unique circumstances that make the subject of CIL content preservation so problematic. Copyright infringement and text corruption, in which the text is changed or adapted without author’s permission, are major problems in China. Text corruption mostly results from censorship or web piracy. A recently-developed type of anti-piracy scheme called “literary works fingerprinting” can protect the content of the works themselves, guarding them against plagiarism. If as many of the original CIL documents as possible are consistently archived and digitally fingerprinted, then the born-digital works that remain online will not disappear and cannot be altered, nor can they be easily copied on other sites.

BYU ScholarsArchive Citation

Hickey, C. David (2015) "Chinese Internet Literature: Preserving Born-Digital Literary Content and Fighting Web Piracy," Journal of East Asian Libraries: Vol. 2015: No. 161, Article 7.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jeal/vol2015/iss161/7