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(Continued)     September 18, 2004 edition
On Tuesday, Google was in the news again when it said it went ahead with its news website, despite threats of legal action and allegations by local media of copyright infringement. The controversies arose after the launch of Google's Hong Kong news on Thursday. The website for Hong Kong news cites news summaries and uses photos from local Chinese language media, including newspaper, radio and television, and provides hyperlinks to their websites.

In its own news report yesterday, Ming Pao said it had issued a letter through lawyers to ask that the US search engine giant stop such practices. Ming Pao said Google had not sought consent from the newspaper before using its news summaries, which it said might infringe copyright.

The head of RTHK's corporation communications unit, Sze Wing-yuen, said the government radio station would ask Google not to use its news until "the matter was cleared up". The chief editor of Sing Tao electronic daily, Raymond Chan Wai-man, warned of "follow-up actions".

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