Chinese company guilty for copyright infringement

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China's top search engine Baidu Inc. has been found guilty of copyright infringement.

12 May,2011 09:30 pm

The company has been asked to pay compensation to a popular literary website. Baidu Inc. has been ordered to pay about 550,000 yuan ($84,722) for infringing its copyright for five novels.Over the past few months, Baidu has been involved in a dispute over its Baidu Library product with a group of authors who claimed that Baidu infringe their copyrights. Baidu apologized and took off the infringing material. It has been found guilty of copyright infringement.The company had already filed an appeal.