New Chinese law finds Yahoo in copyright violation

@ 2007/12/23
Chinese courts handed the world's recording industry a significant victory Thursday, finding the search giant's Chinese music service was committing copyright infringement.Under new laws passed by the country last year, a Beijing court found that Yahoo China violated copyright by allowing users to search, download, and play pirated music from its Web site.

Comment from Sidney @ 2007/12/23
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Originally Posted by Shogun View Post
I hope companies begin to realize that they have to be extremely careful as they try to do business in China. Yahoo has taken an extreme beating - though I won't say it's unjustified - over the past year.
You don't say; one of Yahoo's founders is Chinese. He is still running the company today.

http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/press/management.cfm
Comment from Shogun @ 2007/12/23
I hope companies begin to realize that they have to be extremely careful as they try to do business in China. Yahoo has taken an extreme beating - though I won't say it's unjustified - over the past year.

 

 

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