Yahoo! China Sued For Copyright Infringement
(From Pacific Epoch) Eleven music production companies have jointly sued Alibaba for Yahoo! China’s infringements of the production companies’ music copyrights by providing links to pirate music providers, Beijing Second Intermediary Court accepted the lawsuit, reports Xinhuanet. The music companies include Universal Music Group (UMG), UMG Hong Kong (formerly known as GoEast Entertainment), Warner Music, EMI Music, EMI Music Hong Kong, Sony-BMG. The music companies state Yahoo! China provided trial listening and download services for 229 songs from 46 albums from April 10, 2006. The companies are petitioning the court to have Yahoo! China to halt the copyright infringements and pay 5.5 million Yuan in compensation.
