The Chinese have a very different cultural response to copying, and often see it as a form of honoring.
They would be more than happy if everyone on earth had every Chinese work in existence.
They would be more than happy if everyone on earth had every Chinese work in existence.
Even that is essentialist. In some areas, sharing IP is beneficial to the originators and incentives are aligned. In other areas, not so much.
Duxiu makes money selling access to their collection of scanned books. Their incentives are not aligned with having others use those scans for free. Currently, such cases seem to be mostly handled under the most general provisions of the Anti-Unfair Competition Law (反不正当竞争法), but new amendments are likely to make it more explicitly illegal https://www.whitecase.com/insight-alert/china-releases-draft... ("Improperly obtaining or using another business operator's commercial data")