Yahoo China to face legal action in music copyright dispute

0 Comments | AFP, July, 2006

LONDON (AFP) — Music industry body IFPI has said that it will pursue Yahoo China under Chinese law to stop the group infringing record companies' intellectual property rights.

John Kennedy, chairman and president of the IFPI, said in a brief statement: "Yahoo China has been blatantly infringing our members rights. We have started the process and as far as we're concerned we're on the track to litigation."

Kennedy, who was in Beijing on Tuesday for talks with government officials on the issue, added: "If negotiation can prevent that, so be it."

The IFPI, or International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, wrote to Yahoo China last April on behalf of its member record companies to request it to "take the necessary steps to stop the infringement" of their...