{"id":60745,"date":"2023-12-26T01:00:26","date_gmt":"2023-12-25T16:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/25\/confusion-china-rights-dancing-frog-intellectual-property-copyright-infringement"},"modified":"2023-12-26T01:00:26","modified_gmt":"2023-12-25T16:00:26","slug":"chinese-dancing-frog-goes-viral-doing-the-worm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60745","title":{"rendered":"Chinese dancing frog goes viral doing the worm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Frog seller\u2019 trend sparks debate on intellectual property amid concerns over copyright infringement<\/p>\n<p>An anthropomorphised frog has joined <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/06\/chinese-influencers-using-ai-digital-clones-of-themselves-to-pump-out-content\">celebrity live-streamers<\/a> and social media commentators among China\u2019s ranks of influencers, as a trend that began with street sellers in Chinese cities takes on a new life online \u2013 and raised questions over who, if anyone, owns the intellectual property rights to a dancing amphibian.<\/p>\n<p>Alternatively known as a \u201cfrog seller\u201d or \u201cfrog influencer\u201d, the meme involves a person in a frog suit with a blue neckerchief selling frog-themed products such as balloons and toys.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/25\/confusion-china-rights-dancing-frog-intellectual-property-copyright-infringement\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Frog seller\u2019 trend sparks debate on intellectual property amid concerns over copyright infringementAn anthropomorphised frog has joined celebrity live-streamers and social media commentators among China\u2019s ranks of influencers, as a trend that began wi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3580,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,236,1094,86,238,235,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-digital-media","category-intellectual-property","category-law","category-media","category-social-media","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60746,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60745\/revisions\/60746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}