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.
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/
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