美国会酝酿知识产权紧箍咒：或拿迅雷上市开刀

The U.S. should impose sactions against Chinese companies that violate intellectual property, said Michael R. Wessel, a member of the United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission, at a hearing held Wednesday in Washington, D.C.

Many Chinese internet companies that have gone public in the U.S. such as Baidu, Sohu and 163.com will be affected if Wessel's proposals are authorized.

Wessel also proposed that listed companies' performance on intellectual property rights should be supervised in the U.S.

"We can file a lawsuit against the management staff, whose companies have violations of intellectual property rights," he said.

Xunlei Network, a Chinese video and music file-sharing company partly owned by Google, is planning to go public in the U.S. by the end of this year. Michael Schlesinger, who represents the International Intellectual Property Alliance, suggested that Xunlei's performance on intellectual property rights should be reviewed as one of the conditions for its IPO in the U.S.

Some P2P transmission services companies in China, such as Xunlei Network and VeryCD, are directly involved in film and music piracy

5月4日，美中经济与安全评估委员会USCC委员魏塞尔(Michael R. Wessel)在华盛顿举行的听证会上提出，对存在知识产权保护问题的在美上市中国企业进行制裁。

如果魏塞尔这一设想得以落实，百度、搜狐、网易等众多在美上市互联网企业都将受到影响。

魏塞尔希望将知识产权保护方面的表现也纳入对中国企业的监管范围之中。

"我们可以在美国的法庭上起诉那些有侵犯知识产权行为的公司管理层，"魏塞尔说。

迅雷有意在2011年之内登陆美国股市的消息在3月传出。国际知识产权保护联盟负责人施莱辛格在听证会上建议将知识产权保护方面的内容也作为迅雷赴美上市的条件之一。

迅雷、VeryCD等提供P2P传输服务的企业与中国互联网上电影、音乐盗版问题有直接联系。