From BBC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8433345.stm
"A Beijing judge has told the Chinese novelist Mian Mian, who is suing Google over its plan to create an online library, to hold settlement talks.
After a two-hour hearing, the court ordered both sides to talk but did not set a deadline for reporting back, according to the author's lawyer.
She is seeking damages of 61,000 yuan ($8,950; £5,576) and a public apology.
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[OT] one thing i want to say is that i never heard any one's first name and last name is same , like here Mian Mian!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
Very, very rare, in many countries laws even don't accepct this. |
First of all, you didn't hear it, you read it in English transliteration online; the whole name may well be incomplete from our Western/Caucasian [I presume] point of view. Also, while both its parts may well be written alike, that doesn't mean they are pronounced the same, nor that any Chinese-speaker would ever mistake (or fail to distinguish between) their parts. Besides, for all we know, this may be a literary pseudonym, chosen precisely for its double-segment "symmetry" because it has a special meaning within the chosen cultural or other context ["Mian Mian writes risque novels about China's underworld of sex, drugs and nightlife."], of which we here –as a whole & by and large– are blisfully ignorant.
Back to on-topic: what does Mian Mian expect to accomplish by –in effect– having her novels removed from search indices, which is what drives book inquiries and sales these days? |
Thanks for sharing these facts (about OT) to us. |
