Music industry sues Baidu
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Linking to songs Three multinational record companies have filed copyright infringement claims in a Beijing court against China's most popular internet search engine, Baidu.com Inc.â¦
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A Beijing court has rejected&#160;Yahoo China&#39;s appeal&#160;against a fine of 210,000 yuan ($28,400) for infringing a 2006 copyright law.The suit, filed in January by the 11 members of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), accused Yahoo China of infringing copyright by deep linking, through its music search engine, to MP3 files distributed by third party Web sites without the copyright holders&#39; permission.The Beijing No. 2 Intermediate People&#39;s Court&#160;found Yahoo China guilty&#160;on April 24, imposing the 210,000 yuan fine -- far less than the 5.5 million yuan sought by IFPI -- and&#160;Yahoo China promptly appealed. The Beijing Higher People&#39;s Court rejected that appeal on Thursday.Yahoo China is wholly owned by Chinese company Alibaba.com, in which Yahoo owns a 44 percent stake. The offending music search engine allowed visitors to Yahoo China&#39;s site to find and play copyright music tracks without leaving the Yahoo site, according to the IFPI.IFPI blames such sites for what it says is an abnormally low level of music sales in China: around $76 million in 2006, representing less than one percent of global recorded music sales, according to the group. It estimates that 99 percent of music downloads in China infringe copyright.A separate suit filed by IFPI against Chinese search engine Baidu.com in September 2005 resulted in an acquittal for Baidu. IFPI appealed the ruling, but its appeal too was rejected Thursday, leaving Baidu in the clear, said IFPI spokesman Alex Jacob.&quot;The Baidu case was judged on the old copyright law, so our appeal was rejected,&quot; Jacob said.
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Record companies in the UK are for the first time to sue music fans who download tracks illegally from the internet. The British Phonographic Industry, the trade body for record labels in the UK, is to announce
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The Chinese Internet company Baidu has launched a search service to help Internet surfers navigate through the millions of Chinese bloggers and their sites.  Baidu's is the first Chinese search service dedicated to blog searches, the official state news agency Xinhua said.
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Legal action against train operator after footage uploaded to Youtube and Chinese video-sharing websites
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The state of Illinois is suing the Dave Matthews Band for illegal sewage dumping in a river. It is alleged that the driver of the band&#39;s tour bus dumped the contents of the vehicle&#39;s septic tank, weighing about 360kg into the Chicago River on August 8.
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LOS ANGELES -- The music industry is continuing its campaign against people who illegally download music through file-sharing sites.
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But look to lawsuit stick rather than iTunes carrot for the cause
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Chinese Web search leader Baidu is working with Taiwan's Rock Music Group to offer streaming music services.
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The US music industry sues 750 computer users believed to be distributing music illegally over the internet.
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LOS ANGELES -- The recording industry filed copyright infringement lawsuits against 761 computer users in the latest round of litigation in the record companies&#39; effort to stamp out unauthorized trading of music online.
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Five record companies are suing Sharman Networks, creator of the file-swapping technology Kazaa, for music piracy in Australia&#39;s Federal Court.
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Three of the world's most influential music labels launched fresh legal action against China's top Internet search engine Baidu for pirating music files, according to the recording industry's trade body.
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LOS ANGELES - The recording industry on Thursday filed another round of copyright infringement lawsuits against people it said were illegally distributing songs over the Internet.
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A small Chinese high-tech firm is suing  Microsoft Corp because it says the software giant has stolen  its creation that allows Internet users to type Chinese  characters, but Microsoft countered the claim on Friday.
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The lead singer of U.S. rhythm and blues band The Gap Band sued EMI Music Inc. and Heineken Inc. on Friday for using a song he recorded with rapper Snoop Dogg in a commercial without his permission.
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A Beijing-based software company has filed a lawsuit against the creator of the "World of Warcraft" and the game's local operator for allegedly using its Chinese character fonts illegally.