This car company ripped off Land Rover. Here’s why it might get away with it

An article in The Washington Post about the legal fight between British luxury carmaker Jaguar Land Rover and Chinese carmaker Jiangling over “shanzhai,” a Chinese term for prideful counterfeiting, of the design of Range Rover’s Evoque and Jiangling’s Landwind X7 quotes Mark Bartholomew, professor of law. “It boils down to economics,” he said. “The Chinese economy doesn’t have this same tradition of the manufacturers like Ford or Hyundai or any of the folks who are making these cars. So if you don’t have these copyright laws, why pay if you can get away with it?”

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