Editor's Notes:

After days of difficult negotiations with Chinese writers over the copyright dispute, Chinese search giant Baidu finally agreed to remove unauthorized online works, admitting they had been uploaded by internet users without prior approval from their authors. 

 

Baidu:

Robin Li, CEO of Baidu

 

Baidu, China's biggest online search engine, has deleted 2.8 million unauthorized works of literature, or more than 99 percent of the material in the literature category that had previously been freely available on its Wenku system. (More)

 

 

 

 

 

 

The writers:

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Han Han (L) and Jia Ping'ao

 

"Our condemnation of Baidu is not for personal gain but for the benefit of all writers and the Internet industry as well, because this industry has never established legal game rules before" (More)

 

 

 

 

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