Gates criticizes China for not protecting intellectual property

Microsoft chairman and founder Bill Gates on Wednesday criticized China for doing too little to protect intellectual property. Microsoft has lost hundreds of millions of dollars in China because of law protections for copyrights and patents, straining its relationship with the emerging economic superpower. "They have work to do in terms of obeying copyright laws," Gates said. "They themselves are creating copyrights and patents and things like that and they have artists, scientists and writers so I think over time they will get better on this issue," said Gates. "Certainly, on some of the software copyright things the level of enforcement is quite weak."