Baidu will launch Baidu Ting sometime in May, said Kaiser Kuo, a Baidu spokesman told Reuters on Wednesday. The service will allow users to stream, download, create libraries of licenced music and will have a social-networking aspect.
Music piracy in China has cost record labels hundreds of millions in profits. Most of the music available through Baidu's current Mp3 search service is copyright infringing.
"Our members want to partner with and invest in China's digital revolution, but they cannot do so while the music service run by the dominant Internet company, Baidu, facilitates infringement of the rights of artists and creators online," said International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, a body representing record companies globally, in a letter to the Financial Times last month.
More: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/06/us-baidu-idUSTRE7351FN20110406
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Music piracy in China has cost record labels hundreds of millions in profits. Most of the music available through Baidu's current Mp3 search service is copyright infringing.
"Our members want to partner with and invest in China's digital revolution, but they cannot do so while the music service run by the dominant Internet company, Baidu, facilitates infringement of the rights of artists and creators online," said International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, a body representing record companies globally, in a letter to the Financial Times last month.
More: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/06/us-baidu-idUSTRE7351FN20110406
