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Google infringe 80,000 Chinese books

By Zhao Chunzhe (chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2009-12-28 17:00
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More than 80,000 Chinese books had their copyright infringed by Google, China Business Times reported today.

According to a list of Chinese books Google had scanned to put up in its digital library, 8,000 pieces of works of 2,600 writers from Chinese Writers Association were involved in the case, said China Written Works Copyright Society (CWWCS). Books published on the Chinese mainland before 1987 were not listed.

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