Urgently! "Vkontakte" waiting for the court and closing
A few months ago, in the article “ Facebook strikes the first blow.“ VKontakte stand and fear! ”I told about a lawsuit brought by Facebook against one of the largest German social networks StudiVZ . Americans blamed the Germans for plagiarism, and in the article I mentioned, I thought that if Facebook could win this process, then the first person to fear the next lawsuit was a Russian Facebook clone, VKontakte.
Vkontakte on the left, Facebook on the right.
Then (and the case was last summer) shortly after the filing, the lawyers for the Americans for some reason called off the lawsuit, and Facebook clones (including, of course, and VKontakte) sighed freely.
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However, few people know that after some time a lawsuit against StudiVZ was filed again. The US side found new evidence of violation of its copyright and related rights. The description of these violations in a total volume of more than three volumes was submitted to the court of the highest authority in Berlin at the place of registration of a legal entity supporting the work of the social network.
On the left is StudiVZ, on the right is Facebook.
The process lasted several months. The meeting behind the meeting the hopes of the StudiVZ owners to keep the social network with tens of millions of registered users right at least just in the network dissipated like the morning mist over the Rhine.
And today the verdict of the court was announced. Judge Klaus Luxemburg (by the way, the grandson of the famous revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg), in his final speech, acknowledged the claims of the world's largest social network justified and decided to remove the website StudiVZ from the Internet within ten days.
Judge Klaus Luxemburg (center) reads the judgment
The assembly of several hundreds of active users of the “accused” social network, who came to the court building to support the creators and owners of the site, turned into a spontaneous demonstration, which continues even now, threatening to turn into street riots.
StudiVZ fans driven by the police from the courthouse in the city park
But for Runet users, not only the court decisions, but the words spoken by Facebook’s main lawyer Bernard DiCaprio (this is, by the way, a great-uncle of the famous actor Leonardo DiCaprio), on the sidelines after the process can be fateful. He said: “Now, after we have been able to defend our rights here in Germany, we will deal with Facebook clones in other countries. And the first on our list is one of the largest Russian sites, VKontakte, which copied the appearance and sometimes even the program code of Facebook. And then, maybe we’ll get to Odnoklassniki! And why did they introduce a paid registration? And the units there all the time someone puts good people under the photos! .. Here we’ll celebrate April 1 and take on all of them so that it does not seem like a little! ” .
Source: Spiridonov.ru
Vkontakte on the left, Facebook on the right.
Then (and the case was last summer) shortly after the filing, the lawyers for the Americans for some reason called off the lawsuit, and Facebook clones (including, of course, and VKontakte) sighed freely.
')
However, few people know that after some time a lawsuit against StudiVZ was filed again. The US side found new evidence of violation of its copyright and related rights. The description of these violations in a total volume of more than three volumes was submitted to the court of the highest authority in Berlin at the place of registration of a legal entity supporting the work of the social network.
On the left is StudiVZ, on the right is Facebook.
The process lasted several months. The meeting behind the meeting the hopes of the StudiVZ owners to keep the social network with tens of millions of registered users right at least just in the network dissipated like the morning mist over the Rhine.
And today the verdict of the court was announced. Judge Klaus Luxemburg (by the way, the grandson of the famous revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg), in his final speech, acknowledged the claims of the world's largest social network justified and decided to remove the website StudiVZ from the Internet within ten days.
Judge Klaus Luxemburg (center) reads the judgment
The assembly of several hundreds of active users of the “accused” social network, who came to the court building to support the creators and owners of the site, turned into a spontaneous demonstration, which continues even now, threatening to turn into street riots.
StudiVZ fans driven by the police from the courthouse in the city park
But for Runet users, not only the court decisions, but the words spoken by Facebook’s main lawyer Bernard DiCaprio (this is, by the way, a great-uncle of the famous actor Leonardo DiCaprio), on the sidelines after the process can be fateful. He said: “Now, after we have been able to defend our rights here in Germany, we will deal with Facebook clones in other countries. And the first on our list is one of the largest Russian sites, VKontakte, which copied the appearance and sometimes even the program code of Facebook. And then, maybe we’ll get to Odnoklassniki! And why did they introduce a paid registration? And the units there all the time someone puts good people under the photos! .. Here we’ll celebrate April 1 and take on all of them so that it does not seem like a little! ” .
Source: Spiridonov.ru
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/56117/
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