Ancient works focus of copyright dispute

A lawsuit filed by century-old Chinese publisher Zhonghua Book Co was recently dismissed after the court found it had sued the wrong company.

Zhonghua's suit against the maker of the Hanvon e-book reader was filed in 2009 claiming infringement of its copyright on the punctuated version of Twenty-Four Histories, one of four e-books Hanvon was selling.

The suit asked for more than 4 million yuan ($617,600) in compensation from Hanvon.