WU Weiguang

Tenured Associate Professor

EDUCATION BACKGROUND

PhD in Intellectual Property Law, Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

LLM of Comparative Law, School of Law, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, USA.

Diploma of European Union Law, EU-China Legal and Judicial Cooperation Program.

Master of Civil and Commercial Law, School of Law, Tsinghua University.

Bachelor of M.E., Engineering Mechanics Department, Tsinghua University.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Intellectual Property Law, Cyber and Data Law

ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS

Committee Member of the Intellectual Property Law Association, the China Law Society

Committee Member of the Cyber and Information Law Society, the China Law Society

Member of the Expert Group of the China Consumers Association

PUBLICATIONS

Journal articles

Wu, Weiguang. (2008). The Liability of the Online Video Servicer to the Users’ Copyright Infringement. Intellectual Property, 4, 62-70 (Republished by China Copyright Yearbook 2009).

Wu, Weiguang. (2011). Inconsistency of Copyright System with New Media’s Technology and its Resolution. Modern Law Science, 3 (Abstracted by High Education University Social Science Academic Digest and China Copyright Yearbook 2012, featured by the academic section of Procuratorate Daily).

Wu, Weiguang. (2011). Legal Protection of Chinese Typeface: the Influence and Choice of International Conventions, Industry Policies and Public Interests. Tsinghua Law Journal, 5 (Republished as a single volume).

Wu, Weiguang. (2016). Critique of the Theory of Protection of Personal Data Information Privacy in the Context of Big Data Technology. Political Science and Law, 7, 116–132 (Republished by Renmin University Civil and Commercial Law’s Reproductions of press materials, and by several major academic websites)

Wu, Weiguang. (2017). Understanding the Particularity of China's Privacy Regime in Light of the Emergence and the Nature of Privacy Interests. Contemporary Law Review, 4, 50-63. (Featured by Procuratorate Daily, republished by Social Sciences Digest )

Wu, Weiguang. (2021). Fiduciary Obligations of Internet Enterprises in Internet Platform Organizations to Protect Personal Information. China Legal Science, 6, 45–60 (Republished in Renmin University Civil and Commercial Law’s Reproductions of press materials).

Wu, Weiguang. (2019). Critics and Reconstruction of Competition Relations in the Anti-Unfair Competition Law: From the Perspective of Systematic Understanding of Legislation Purpose, Business Ethics and Competitive Relations. Contemporary Law Review, 1, 132-139.

Wu, Weiguang. (2019). The Systematic Understanding of Registered Trademark Right and the Corrections of Its Institutional Alienations. Modern Law Science, 1, 96-109.

Wu, Weiguang. (2018). Understanding the Chinese Characteristics of the Freedom of Expression Regime by Analyzing its Nature. Tsinghua Law Journal, 3, 76-94.

Wu, Weiguang. (2018). The Right of Code Space: A New Civil Right in Network Economy. Political Science and Law, 4, 111-123.

Wu, Weiguang. (2009), Legal Protection of Trade Dress - Based on the Principle of Protecting the Function of Source Identification. Tsinghua Law Journal, 3, 45-62.

Wu, Weiguang. (2006), Legal Analysis of Parallel Imports of Trademarks. Global Law Review, 3.

Wu, Weiguang. (2023), On the Rationalization of Enterprises Data Protection by the Proprietary Right of Internet Platforms. Political Science and Law, 11.

Wu, Weiguang. (2025), Internet Enterprise’s Vicarious Liability for Copyright Infringement by Internet Users. Intellectual Property, 1.

Wu, Weiguang. (2017). The Rationale of China's Media Regulation Policy in the Process of the Institutional Transformation. Notre Dame Journal of International & Comparative Law, 7, 64.

Available at: http://scholarship.law.nd.edu/ndjicl/vol7/iss1/5 Included in the reading list for the course ‘Researching Chinese Mass Media Law‘ of the Hauser Global Law School Program at New York University, USA.

Wu, Weiguang. (2009). The Separation of Internet Content Regulation in the face of the Convergence of Information and Communication Technologies: The Controversies, Challenges and Solutions for China. Canadian Social Science, 5, 24.

Wu, Weiguang. (2016). ‘China’s CMC system and its problems from the Copyright Law of 1990 to its third amendment’ in Lee, Nari; Bruun, Niklas; Li, Mingde (eds). Governance of Intellectual Property Rights in China and Europe, 213-231. Edward Elgar Publishing.

Wu, Weiguang. (2018). The Balances of Two Trademark Rights: Generation Systems in Japan's Trademark Laws. The John Marshall Review of Intellectual Property Law, 17, 608.

Academic Books

Wu, Weiguang. (2004). E-Commerce Law. Tsinghua University Press.

Wu, Weiguang. (2008). Copyright Law in the Digital Environment—Crisis and Solutions. Intellectual Property Publishing House (third printing in 2007).

Wu, Weiguang. (2013). Regulation of Internet New Media: Freedom and Restrictions. Intellectual Property Publishing House (Sponsored by Asian Research Center of Tsinghua University).

Wu, Weiguang. (2013). Copyright Law: International Conventions, China’s Legislation and Judicial Practice. Tsinghua University Press (Sponsored by Beijing Social Science Publishing Fund for Theoretical Works).

Wu, Weiguang. (2021). Principles and Practices of Big Data Technology Regulation in the Context of Institutional Change: From Kinship Society to Code Society. Intellectual Property Publishing House.

Textbooks

Wu, Weiguang. (2011). Intellectual Property Law in Cyberspace. High Education Press.

Wu, Weiguang. (2012). Internet and E-commerce Law. Tsinghua University Press (Beijing High Education Classic Text Book).

Wu, Weiguang. (2020). Internet, E-commerce and Data Law. Tsinghua University Press.

ACADEMIC AWARDS

Solo-authored paper ‘The Legal Governance of Media in the Process of Institutional Change—social morphology and principles of media governance’, Outstanding Paper Award, the 5th Qian Duansheng ‘China Rule of Law Forum’, December 2014.

Solo-authored paper ‘Understanding the Chinese Characteristics of the Freedom of Expression Regime by Analysing its Nature’, Outstanding Paper Award, the 11th ‘China Jurists Forum’, August 2016.

Solo-authored paper “Legal Regulation of the Use of Personal Data Information in the Context of Big Data - A Critique on Private Rights Protection and the Sharing of Public Goods”, Second Prize, the 11th ‘Youth Forum of China Legal Science’, November 2016.

Solo-authored paper “China's Institutional Change and Rule of Law Construction: Goals, Obstacles, and Path Selection”, Second Prize, the 10th ‘China Jurists Forum’, July 2015.

The course “Copyright Law Studies” has been selected as a Tsinghua University Postgraduate Course of Distinction, 2020-2026.