One of the most popular Chinese author of famous novel “Candy”, Mian Mian is suing the search engine giant Google for stealing her content.Mian Mian, who is famous for tales of sex, drugs and alcohol in the underworld.
It is a first civil lawsuit against Google in China over the scanning of books into its controversial web library.
The 39 year old Mian Mian,who won fame in 2000 with her novel “Candy,” a story about prostitutes, gangsters and artists in the southern boomtown of Shenzhen — is seeking 61,000 yuan (8,900 dollars) in damages.
Google illegally scanned her third novel “Acid Lovers” into its digital library.
According to the China Written Works Copyright Society, tens of thousands of books by hundreds of Chinese authors have been added to Google Books, the US Internet giant’s project to digitise millions of books and post them online.
The All China Writers’ Association has supported Mian Mian and called on the Internet giant to respect the rights of writers.
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really don’t know why Chinese don’t like Google
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Although I Google’s web library is and will be impressive, I think they should really ask the book’s authors if they want to be part of it first. Scanning something IS illegal – sorry Google.
I personally believe that 8k dollars is very less, Come on Chinese author you are suing Google , for God’s Sake demand a higher amount !!!
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