Chinese Court Fines Apple For Copyright Violations

Posted by samzenpus on Friday April 26, 2013 @12:06AM from the pay-up dept.

hackingbear writes "The Beijing No. 2 Intermediate People's Court ruled in favor of a group of Chinese authors, and Apple will have to pay them in excess of 730,000 yuan (US$118,000) for infringement. Apple had not gotten permission before selling their books on the Apple App Store, it noted. These cases were the second batch of lawsuits filed against Apple by the Writers' Right Protection Union, which includes prominent members like prolific blogger and novelist Han Han who have become a pop culture star through his creative and cynical writings criticizing the (Chinese) government."

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Now that's rich by Opportunist · 2013-04-26 01:56 · Score: -1, Flamebait

A country that locks up writers, forbids them to publish their works and does everything possible to eliminate certain topics from public eye, suing someone for distributing works of... waitasec.
Could THAT be the real reason?

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