Wall Street Journal, August 12, 2003
By Dow Jones Newswires

Three movie studios won compensation payments in a battle against film piracy in China, a court official and a studio executive said, a victory in a market criticized for lax policing of intellectual-property rights.



A Shanghai court ruled in favor of Walt Disney Co., Vivendi Universal, and Twentieth Century Fox, owned by News Corp.

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