Yahoo! loses copyright suit
 The Beijing Higher People's Court upheld a lower court ruling that ordered Yahoo! China to pay damages to 11 major record companies for facilitating free music downloads.
Yahoo! China appealed to the Beijing Higher People's Court after losing the lawsuit at the Beijing No 2 Intermediary People's Court in April. The Beijing No 2 Intermediary Court ordered Yahoo! China to pay 210,000 yuan in damages to the companies, which include EMI, Warner Music, Sony BMG Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group. It also ordered the Web portal to remove links that enable Internet users to download songs from other sites.
The record companies began court proceedings in early January, saying that the music had been played or downloaded without their permission and asked for 5.5 million yuan in damages.Yahoo! China insisted that it only provides links in its music search results and should not be held responsible for the content of third-party websites.
(China Daily)
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