Posted on 02/03/2011 10:44:34 AM PST by Slyscribe
Chinese search engine Baidu is finding that it’s easy to get tangled in nasty copyright issues when it launches websites overseas.
In the case of Japan, the flap involves comic books.
Baidu (BIDU) launched a Japanese version of its service called Baidu.jp in 2007.
The site boasts a Baidu Library file-sharing service where users can upload and download stuff like books and comic books for free. The Japanese site was Baidu’s first website outside of China.
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Chinese copyright issues:
“You go ahead and publish the copyrighted issues of your magazine or whatever, and we in Beijing will copy, for free, and sell, for profit, whatever we like out of your mag’s copyrighted issues.”
See “Beijing Jeep: The Short, Unhappy Romance of American Business in China “ for more.
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