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Chinese search engine triumphs over copyright owners

Date: February 2010

By Peter Ollier - ALP

Music industry association IFPI has again lost to Chinese search engine Baidu in a legal dispute over online copyright infringement.

On January 26 the Beijing no 1 Intermediate People’s Court ruled in two separate cases that Baidu and rival search engine Sogou had not committed copyright infringement by providing deep links to illegally uploaded songs.

The full version of this story is available at www.managingip.com.