AppleInsider Staff
Apple has filed an appeal with a Chinese court's $84,000 judgment pertaining to the sale of apps containing pirated versions of a well-known encyclopedia, claiming the company was not responsible for the content.
First reported by Chinese language newspaper the Jinghua Times (via The Next Web) on Wednesday local China time, the appeal asserts that the court's assessment of the Encyclopedia of China Publishing House complaint was incorrect, adding that the $84,000 (RMB 520,000) fine is too high.
The court decided the case in September, and found Apple to be responsible for the pirated copies as it allowed the content to enter the App Store and profited from its sale.
Apple's appeal is the latest chapter in a case that dates back to 2010, when the Encyclopedia of China Publishing House filed suit against the company after discovering unauthorized versions of its copy-written material in the iOS App Store.
For its part, Apple argued that it did not develop the third-party apps, and therefore had no responsibility for the pirated content. The company will reportedly hold that contention throughout the appeals process.
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If this is happening to Apple I wonder what Google will have to deal with.
whats the bet it was put in the app store by someone involved with China Publishing House for the sole purpose of litigation
Apple fights with all over the world over patent, really can't understand why it want itself lost in the wars of patent, does Apple want to wipe the road just as this article described?
Here is link of the Ariticle.
The communists are NOT to be trusted. They'll do whatever it takes to squeeze every penny out of people any way they can.
Apple makes and enforces the (sometimes arbitrary) rules as to what gets included in the App Store, so shouldn't they bear the responsibility for this?