The search engine has been at the center of copyright abuse claims
搜索引擎已经成为滥用版权索赔的中心.
BEIJING - China's biggest search engine, Baidu Inc, plans to provide free downloads of copyrighted music from next week. The move comes as a response to increasing criticism of its involvement in copyright infringement.
北京——中国最大的搜索引擎——百度，计划从下周起提供有版权音乐的免费下载。此行为回应于其卷入版权侵犯增长的批评声音。
The new service, Baidu Ting, will see the search giant in head-to-head competition with its rival Google Inc, which has invested in Top100.cn, a website offering legal music downloads.
百度听，其新的服务将看到这个搜索引擎巨头与其竞争对手谷哥之间短兵相接，后者已经在ＴＯＰ100网站投资，而此网站提供合法的音乐下载。
"Copyrighted music will be the direction of Baidu's music business in the future, and our music-search service will also be based on legal content," said Catherine Leung, general manager of the company's digital entertainment business.
版权音乐将是百度在未来音乐业务方向，我们的音乐搜索服务也将基于合法的内容。公司数字娱乐商业总经理Ｌ说。
However, she said Baidu will not shut down Baidu MP3, its music-search service that enables users to search, stream and download music free of charge. The service has long been the target of criticism from the recorded music industry because it directs users to content that infringes copyright.
然而，她说百度将不会关闭百度ＭＰ３,这个音乐搜索服务可以使使用者搜索，接收及免费下载音乐。此项服务长期以来受到音乐录制行业批评的目标，因为其为使用者指向了侵犯著作权的目录。
The International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA), which represents the United States' copyright industry groups, testified at a US Congress hearing on Wednesday that Baidu had "serious infringement problems".
国际知识产权联盟代理美国版权行业团队，周三时在美国国会听证会上举证，百度严重严重侵权问题。
This was part of the United States' efforts to urge China to promote intellectual property protection ahead of the forthcoming Strategic and Economic Dialogue between the two nations.
这是美国在两国即将到来的战略经济对话之前，致力于敦促中国提高知识产权保护的一部分。
An estimated 50 percent of all illegal music downloads in China take place through Baidu, according to an IIPA report.
据国际知识产权联盟报告，在中国所有非法的音乐下载中估计有50%通过百度。
However, Leung, who was general manager of Universal Music Group's China operations before she joined Baidu in 2008, said the company is open to all kinds of cooperation with music companies for their mutual benefit.
然而，Ｌ在２００８年加入百度之前为环球音乐集团中国业务的总经理，她说公司意愿与所有类型的音乐公司合作为其共同的利益。
Google has been providing a legal music search service since 2009. The company has entered into partnership with Top100.cn, a Chinese music website co-founded by the basketball star Yao Ming, to provide copyrighted songs. Google is still running the service, despite shutting down others last year.
谷哥自２００９开始提供合法的音乐搜索服务。公司已与ＴＯＰ１００合作，一个由篮球明星合作创建的中国的音乐网站，以提供版权保护的歌曲。谷哥仍然运行这项服务，尽管去年时关闭了其它的部分。
Leung said there are about 500,000 copyrighted songs on Baidu Ting, and the figure is expected to exceed 1 million within one or two months. In the summer, the company will offer the Baidu Ting client software for iPhones and mobile phones operating on the Android system, according to Leung.
Ｌ说在百度听在有大约５０万首版权保护歌曲，其数字预期在１到２个月超过１００万。今年夏天，公司将在提供百度听顾客软件给数字电话及移动电话的机器人系统运营。
The service, which is undergoing testing and is only open to a limited number of users at present, plans to generate revenue through subscriptions and advertising, among other methods.
这项服务正在测试中，当前只向有限数量的使用者开放，其计划通过订阅及广告产生利润，或其它的方式。
Baidu took 75.8 percent of the country's search market in the first quarter of this year, followed by Google with 19.2 percent, according to Analysys International. Google has seen a decline in its market share since redirecting its mainland traffic to Hong Kong.
据易观国际提供，百度在今年第一季度占据中国搜索引擎市场的７５.８%，随后为谷哥占有１９.２%。谷哥自调整其大陆与香港间的通信量，其市场份额可视下降。
China Daily
(China Daily 05/07/2011 page9）
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