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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Los Angeles, October 29: A trade group representing the US music industry said on Thursday it has filed lawsuits against 750 people it claims used online file-sharing networks to illegally trade in copyrighted songs.
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Seeks $12m damages Record label Sony BMG is suing the maker of digital rights management (DRM) software which was accused of harming computers in 2005. The company is seeking $12m in damages to compensate for the effects of the software.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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The international record industry announced Thursday that it is planning to file lawsuits against individuals who are sharing files, especially music, over the Internet.
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Chinese Web search leader Baidu.com  Inc. has set up a partnership with popular Chinese-language  record label Rock Music Groupto provide an online music  streaming service.
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Entertainment Base, which claims to be China's largest Web site for original music, sued Yahoo China in the Beijing Second Intermediate People's Court over the copyright of 13 songs, and seeking $314,703 in damages.
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The recording industry launched a new round of lawsuits against illegal downloading Thursday (Sept. 30), the same day negotiations intensified between copyright
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Despite more than 20,000 lawsuits filed against music fans in the years since they started finding free tunes online rather than buying CDs from record companies, the recording industry has utterly failed to halt the decline of the record album or the rise of digital music sharing.
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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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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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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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A recording industry trade group  said Thursday that it has filed another wave of lawsuits  against 754 people it suspects of distributing songs over the  Internet without permission.
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Last week in China, A Lot of Baidu and a bit of Microsoft and Google There hardly goes a week by that Baidu is not in the news. They are actively getting into new partnerships, boasting about their Market Share and releasing new services. Google has yet to find a way to counter this. The rest [...]
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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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LONDON: The piracy-battered music industry said on Thursday it will sue British, French and Austrian music fans for the first time as it intensifies its legal crackdown on Internet song-swappers.
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Eleven companies have sued Yahoo's China division for about 5.5 million yuan ($710,690 USD) over accusations of copyright infringement, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry said Wednesday.