Chinese Internet Giant Tencent Opens Cyberlaw Center, Invests in Research

Chinese internet giant Tencent (HKG:0700) has today announced the opening up of its Tencent Cyberlaw Research Center and accompanying website. It boasts a team of experienced legal practitioners and researchers – of whom more than half have doctorates – who will write, lecture, and co-operate on national and global issues relating to e-commerce, online gaming, IP law, security and hacking, and internet-related competition law.

The site, at law.tencent.com, features a mix of legal cases, professional advice on cyberlaw, and a series of video lectures. As the site quietly soft-launched a month ago, it already has a great deal of content, which is a blend of original and aggregated stuff.

The review of the Cyberlaw Research Center on Tencent-owned QQ Tech describes it as a kind of “corporate social responsibility” venture that will “promote improvement of China’s Internet law.” And so Tencent will be putting an undisclosed sum of money into research as well, which goes to partner universities and institutes such as Beijing University, and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

Tencent is one of China’s biggest web companies, encompassing social networks and IM, social gaming, e-commerce, its Soso.com search engine, lots of mobile apps, and many other things.

[Source: QQ Tech news – article in Chinese]