By Herman Lai, posted Mar 26, 2011 at 10:20 AM, 349 views,

Baidu Apologizes For Copyright Violation

China’s largest search engine Baidu apologized to Chinese writers of violating their copyright and promised to delete infringing items within the next three days.

Here is the official reply from Baidu:

“Baidu attached great importance to copyright violation issues with upload documents in our database, and we had received a large number of notices from people in regard copyright infringement. We have put all our effort to mobilize all the department of technology to delete any infringing items in our database. We estimate all unauthorized use of items will be clear within the next three days.”

“In the meantime, we also noticed the presence of infringing contents in the library had hurt writers’ feeling.”

“As Baidu is a free documents share platform, we would like to cooperate with authors and publishers through sharing revenue on advertising and reading fees on users, Baidu would give the majority of revenue to copyright owners.”

This would be an effective step for the giant search engine as well as other companies to concentrate more seriously on copyright issue, and seems to cause a big wave to wash out the majority of infringing items in China.

Source: Netease