Facebook delivers the first blow. VKontakte stand and be scared!
A month after the launch of the German version of Facebook, lawyers for this social network, one of the largest in the world, filed a lawsuit in California court against a major German player in the Internet market StudiVZ .
On the left is StudiVZ, on the right is Facebook. There are some similarities, but is it enough to win the trial?
The reasons for the claim of Americans - plagiarism. The creators of Facebook believe that StudiVZ copies their idea, interfaces, functionality, and in general all that is the essence of the project. The battle to be serious. And on that, and on the other side the interests of the masses of people. At stake are hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars.
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The Facebook lawsuit can be attributed to the fact that, having entered the German market, they did not get the desired results, they looked around, found the guilty and decided to act.
Vkontakte on the left, Facebook on the right.
Now the main intrigue for Runet - what will Facebook do in Russia? The version of the Russian interface they have recently appeared, but marketing has not yet begun. Facebook, for the time being, as it seems to me, seriously did not pay attention to Russia (like Google until a certain point). But he will. It's unavoidable. And then what? After all, “Vkontakte” is really damn similar to Facebook, and if Americans have complaints about StudiVZ, which at least repainted the interfaces in red and did not use icons identical with Facebook, will they pass by the brainchild of Pavel Durov? The question is open.
Source - http://spiridonov.ru
Reference: StudiVZ - German student social network, which appeared in October 2006. At the moment it is one of the most famous and visited sites in Germany. According to the latest data, over 10 million users are registered at StudiVZ, about 10 billion pages are viewed monthly.
In January 2007, StudiVZ was sold to the largest independent player of the German Internet market, the Georg von Holbrink Publishing Group. The amount of the transaction is unknown. Experts believe that it was about 100 million euros .
On the left is StudiVZ, on the right is Facebook. There are some similarities, but is it enough to win the trial?
The reasons for the claim of Americans - plagiarism. The creators of Facebook believe that StudiVZ copies their idea, interfaces, functionality, and in general all that is the essence of the project. The battle to be serious. And on that, and on the other side the interests of the masses of people. At stake are hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars.
')
The Facebook lawsuit can be attributed to the fact that, having entered the German market, they did not get the desired results, they looked around, found the guilty and decided to act.
Vkontakte on the left, Facebook on the right.
Now the main intrigue for Runet - what will Facebook do in Russia? The version of the Russian interface they have recently appeared, but marketing has not yet begun. Facebook, for the time being, as it seems to me, seriously did not pay attention to Russia (like Google until a certain point). But he will. It's unavoidable. And then what? After all, “Vkontakte” is really damn similar to Facebook, and if Americans have complaints about StudiVZ, which at least repainted the interfaces in red and did not use icons identical with Facebook, will they pass by the brainchild of Pavel Durov? The question is open.
Source - http://spiridonov.ru
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/29418/
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