Alibaba, the parent company of Yahoo China since buying it from Yahoo for $750 million last year, now faces another expense - music copyright infringement. The International Federation for the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) spent part of 2005 chasing down China's top search engine, Baidu.com, for infringing on music copyrights. Now the IFPI has Yahoo China in its sights, a Bloomberg MGM v Grokster, the court instead chose to issue an opinion that a website that promotes itself as a way of evading copyright was illegal, and neatly dodged the central question about whether or not people can trade files legally. Tag: Add to Del.icio.us | Digg | Yahoo! My Web | Furl Bookmark murdok: David Utter is a staff writer for murdok covering technology and business.
Yahoo China Draws Music Label Wrath
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