Hanhzhou, China - Chinese digital music distributor 5fad.com announced on Wednesday that it has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against leading Chinese search engine Baidu (NASD: BIDU) in federal court in New York. Baidu has been the target of a number of lawsuits from record labels in its home country of China, but this suit filed by 5fad appears to be the first such action to be accepted for review by a U.S. federal court, in this case the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Beijing - Baidu, China's largest search engine, has been sued by a Chinese music site that says Baidu links to sites offering free downloads of its copyrighted works, Variety reported. The website 5fad.com seeks $13.2 million in damages and a halt to Baidu's offending links. Baidu was previously sued by the four major record labels on similar charges of providing links to sites that offered free downloads, but was acquitted in court late last year.