No stranger to legal battles, Baidu.com was ordered to pay RMB50,000 on the command of Shanghai No.2 Intermediate People's Court yesterday to recompense Dazhong Transportation and Dazhong Moving for permitting links, which was damaging to the companies, to be illegally available on search pages.
The companies last year discovered that when entering key words of
Dazhong Moving into the Baidu website an advertising column on the site
appears, listing a number of competitors that could take on businesses
in the name of Dazhong Moving. The column is of course paid advertising
service offered by Baidu but the search engine argued that it is merely
the advertiser and was not involved in creating the ad and cannot be
held responsible for content on other websites.
Other cases involving infringement and copyright violation was Wap
Network Technology Co Ltd, ordered to pay RMB200,000 in damages to
Beijing Chinese Online Culture Development for publishing 40
bestsellers online without permission of copyright owners. Ebay also
walked down that route, but came off with a warning for selling illegal
copies of "Si Ku Quan Shu," which was put together during the Qing
Dynasty (1644-1911) and contains more than 36,000 volumes of important
books of Chinese history. The electronic version, valued at HKD85,000
was sold for RMB60, media reports.
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