With thanks for one of my students for fowarding this to me, the Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People’s Court has today cleared Chinese search engine Baidu on claims of copyright infringement for deep-linking to music downloads that infringe copyrights. Reuters story here.
China Court Clears Search Engine of Copyright Infringement
Posted by Jacqui Lipton · January 26th, 2010 · 1 Comment
Tags: Copyright Law · Intellectual Property Law · Law & Technology
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1 Ethan // Jan 28, 2010 at 3:41 pm
Note this is the 3rd case in (at least) a trilogy of mp3 linking liability cases in China. Baidu 1 (won), yahoo (lost) , and this case Baidu 2 (won). The determining factor in liability (even after accounting for changes in the statute) appears to be the nationality of the defendant.
A fairly detailed summary is at:
http://www.chinahearsay.com/wtf-baidu-wins-mp3-deep-linking-case/