"Sport-Express" sued the Sports.ru for copy-paste

Two major sports media in RuNet seriously fell out. If before the relationship between them could be called a hidden war, now "hostilities" can move to court.

The newspaper Sport-Express through the Moscow Arbitration Court requires from the Internet project Sports.ru 5 million rubles. for copy-paste three articles. This is the maximum amount of compensation provided by law for copyright infringement, according to Vedomosti .

In this trial, the status of the plaintiff (the oldest paper publication with a classic site) and the respondent (an advanced Web 2.0 project with a rapidly growing audience) are of particular interest. The competition between them looks pretty curious. According to Dmitry Navosha ( navosha ), co-owner of Sports.ru, the monthly audience of their site now is about 1.2 million people, Sport Express - 2-2.5 million.
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Lawyers believe the size of the claims of Sport-Express is too high. For example, the newspaper Vedomosti received from RBC only 2.8 million rubles. Compensation for copy-paste more than 100 articles, and then after a two-year trial.

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