Baidu, the Google of China, gave an apologetic statement this Saturday addressed to all the writers who were condemning the search engine for the violation of their copyright. It also said that it was going to remove all kinds of infringing items in the next three days ahead.
Kaiser Kuo, the spokesman for Baidu informed AFP that: "We will now make a concerted effort and devote considerable technological and manpower resources towards getting rid of any infringing content in the next three days." He said straight forwardly that "We apologize to any authors or publishers whose feelings may have been hurt by the presence of infringing content on Baidu."The issue began last week, when more than 40 top-selling writers of China, like the author Han Han, collaboratively signed a letter blowing up Baidu and accusing them for their copyright violation and infringement for putting their work for downloads on free price. The local media claimed that the negations between the two broke on Friday, and now perhaps the disagreement will lead to Baidu facing a potential court action by the hands of Chinese writers.
Baidu Wenku reportedly above 10 million books uploaded in their database by the hands of all Internet users. The company even makes claims that they have accumulated 70 percent of all China's online file-sharing market. Hence Kuo has also once understood the matter at hand and claimed that the company is continue sly attempting to remove "tens of thousands of infringing items" from their database uploaded by web users.
Baidu has a very critically history as it has been very much criticized in the past as well, for infringement of several intellectual property rights. The MP3 search service of the company, is also controversial among the recording industry as it is often accused of providing links to pirated music downloads.
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