A Chinese lawyer has asked two Web sites - www.baidu.com, a leading search engine, and www.net.cn, an email service provider, to compensate him more than one million yuan (13.5 million U.S. dollars) for the exposure of his email content last year.
Guo Li, a lawyer from Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province, said he found in August 2006 on Baidu.com a link to one of his personal emails when he was searching his name through the Web site.
An affiliated document of the email sent via the www.net.cn in July 2006 was also exposed via a service of the Baidu search engine, Guo claimed.
Guo notified the two Web sites and demanded the links and his email contents be deleted, which was done one month later.
The trial, dubbed as the first of its kind on the Chinese mainland, began in the Haidian District People's Court in Beijing on Friday.
Guo asked in court the two defendants to apologize in public and compensate him 2,628 yuan (355 U.S. dollars)in economic losses and one million yuan (13.5 million U.S. dollars) in emotional comfort fee.
The www.net.cn said Guo's email was just a common job-hunting letter and could also be seen on some other Web sites. The exposure did not cause any loss to him or infringe on his copyrights, it added.
The Baidu.com insisted the exposure was caused by the flaws of the email service provider while the search Web site was not responsible for the incident.
No ruling was made at Friday's trial
Source: Xinhua
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