Making it mine - copyright or copy wrong?

Tuntou village's palace-lantern industry shines a light on China's need to develop well-conceived and detailed management systems of intellectual property rights and their role in cultural heritage preservation.

The settlement's industry has no doubt created a brilliant local economy. The average annual salary is 15,000 yuan ($2,400) a year. Few locals migrate to cities. Instead, farmers from other villages migrate to Tuntou, the Party chief told me last year.

Zhang Fengjun, the only provincially designated intangible cultural heritage inheritor of palace lantern-making, says that's partly because he owns nine patents related to the craft born in the Eastern Han Dynasty (AD 25-220).