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China: Google violating copyrights, authors say.

BBC Monitoring International Reports

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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)

[Xinhua: " Google Violating Copyrights, Authors Say"]

BEIJING, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) - Search engine giant Google is facing accusations that its employees, illegally and without permission, scanned Chinese writers' works into its digital library, Google Books, China Daily reported Wednesday.

"Google's infringement to Chinese authors is very severe," Zhang Hongbo, deputy director-general of China Written Works Copyright Society (CWWCS), the only domestic administration of written works copyrights, was quoted as saying.

Chinese government departments, such as the …

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