Chinese Court Upholds Ruling Yahoo Music Site Breaches Copyright; Ditto For Baidu

Yahoo lost its appeal against a court ruling that its Chinese music website promotes copyright abuse. The site, which offers deep links directly to hundreds of illegal MP3 and other files on third-party web servers, was declared illegal and fined 200,000 yuan in April under new laws introduced in 2006 ; Yahoo appealed, arguing both that search engines should not be held liable for content they ...