Music Labels Lose Baidu Piracy Case

January 26th, 2010 admin

LONDON (Reuters) – China’s most popular search engine Baidu has been cleared of piracy in a dispute with the music industry, the IFPI trade body for the music sector said Tuesday. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry said it was disappointed with the ruling after a court in China decided that the search engine had not broken rules by linking to music downloads that infringe copyright. The case was launched in the Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People’s Court by Universal Music, Sony BMG Music Entertainment Hong Kong and Warner Music Hong Kong in early 2008. They accused Baidu of providing “deep links” to hundreds of thousands of infringing tracks on third-party sites. Another site called Sohu was also cleared, the IFPI said. “The judgments in the Baidu and Sohu/…


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