Apple fined by Chinese court for Copyright infringement of ebooks

A?Beijing?court ordered Apple Inc. to pay 1.03 Million yuan/about $165,000 for selling unlicensed copies of 8 local writers via their app store.

Apple usually requires developers to sign an agreement stating that they have all the rights of the material in their apps that will be sold in Apple?s app store, but the attorneys for the writers argued that the?a?software that was sold in the app store contained unlicensed digital copies of writer?s books.

This is the second time in four months that Apple had to pay for infringement. The company had to pay 520,000 yuan to a Chinese encyclopedia publisher during?September.?Apple also had to pay $60 Million to a local arm of a HongKong company to settle trademark disputes over ?iPad? name.

Source: WSJ

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