Starting relatively late, China is quickly catching up with other countries in copyright protection Since drafting its first domestic copyright law, it has taken China only a little over a decade to join the major international copyright conventions. This path is remark-ably short for adopting copyright conven-tions-it took nearly a century to develop them in Western countries. Starting relatively late, China is quick catching up with other countries in copyright protection Since drafting its first domestic copyright law, it has taken China only a little over a decade to join the major international copyright conventions. This path is remark-ably short for adopting copyright conven-tions-it took nearly a century to develop them in Western countries.