At 01:24 AM 12/8/97 +0000, P Boylan wrote:


>The death penalty has been available to Chinese courts for a number of
>years for a range of cultural property crimes, including museum and
>monument theft, illicit excavation and art smuggling, though few cases
>seem to have been reported to foreign media and I have never been
>able to get any statistics on cultural property crime or penalties
>imposed for these.

Any chance that they'd impose the death penalty for thefts of intellectual
property? <g>

r.baron