Copy watch? Copy CD? Copy Titanic VCD? Copy Leo T-shirt? Recent raids on pirate CD factories in Hong Kong haven't stemmed the flow of copied items on the streets of this and other cities in China.
Lawyers refer to copyrighted stuff as 'intellectual property', despite the blatant absurdity of describing films by the likes of Jean-Claude van Damme as 'intellectual'.
But few people realise that China introduced the world to the whole idea of recording and mass-producing intellectual properties, and dominated the field until recently - that's 'recently' in historical terms, meaning the past half-millennium.
In China, in the year AD 150, a priest had the idea of pouring paint on to carved stone tablets. He got some beefy fellow-monks to help lift the tablets and press them down on surfaces. Smudgy reproductions of his religious texts could be just about deciphered. It was the precursor of the rubber stamp. Yes, he had invented the first provisional legislature - no, I mean, printing system.
Another 250 years passed before a fellow countryman refined the technique, brewing the first ink. The reproductions looked better, but were a little rough compared to the full-colour 3000 dpi resolution of modern printing. And heaving rock pages around was hard work.
A couple of centuries later, in the year 600, Chinese intellectuals discovered that certain types of wood could do the job of stones, and the first woodblock prints were laid on paper, another Chinese invention.