E-paper provider loses lawsuit
Wanfang Data, an Internet information content provider in China, has been ordered to pay more than 1 million yuan for copyright infringement. The company included 364 unpublished masters and doctorate dissertations in its database. The dissertations were then sold to public and college libraries for profit, the court of Chaoyang District in Beijing said recently. Wanfang Data also charged Internet users money to view and download the dissertations.
Wanfang Data was ordered to pay between 2,300 yuan and 5,100 yuan in damages to 364 academics. It was ordered to remove the plaintiffs' dissertations from its database and publish an apology on its website.
(Source：China Daily)
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