You could imagine that that would really have a chilling effect on other fan homage sort of books, wouldn't it?

It's a really controversial decision.

So one Chinese commentator has said anonymously in a post that if the character names in literary works are protected by copyright law, how much space is left for the public to use freely, suggesting there's very little that fan fiction writers could do without breaching the copyright law.

So I think it would have a big chilling effect.

And it's also, I think, takes the protection that Chinese copyright law gives to authors, quite a long way further than I think many commentators would expect them to go.

And there's a case back in 2015, um, where a Taiwanese author of a romance series that was aired in Taiwan in 1993 called Mi Hua Lao or Plum Blossom Scar.

So that was copied in the early 2010s, um, by a script writer and film production company, uh, I think in Hunan in, in about 2012, 2014.

What a fabulous name.