Apple must pay $165,000 to group of Chinese writers

Fri, Dec 28, 2012

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The Wall Street Journal notes:

A Beijing court ordered Apple Inc. to pay 1.03 million yuan, or about $165,000, to a group of local writers who said the U.S. gadget maker sold unlicensed copies of their books online, according to state media.

The state-run Xinhua news agency said Thursday that the Beijing No. 2 Intermediate People’s Court ordered Apple to pay the money to eight Chinese writers and two companies for violating their copyrights.

Attorneys for the writers had argued that software available from Apple’s app store contained unlicensed digital copies of their books.

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