{"id":1407,"date":"2012-01-09T08:02:28","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T08:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=1407"},"modified":"2012-01-09T08:04:36","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T08:04:36","slug":"chinese-authors-sue-apple-for-copyright-infringement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/1407\/chinese-authors-sue-apple-for-copyright-infringement\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese authors sue Apple for copyright infringement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of Chinese authors has sued Apple Inc for 11.9 million yuan ($1.9 million) in compensation for allegedly providing copyright-infringing books for download through its online store, Chinese financial magazine Caixin reported.<\/p>\n<p>The group behind the lawsuit has been lobbying Apple for months to remove copyright-infringing books from its App Store.<\/p>\n<p>The group of nine authors, under the mantle of the China Written Works Copyright Society (CWWCS), sued Apple in Beijing&#8217;s No. 2 Intermediate People&#8217;s Court for copyright infringement of 37 works, Caixin reported on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, the lobby group has waged similar high-profile battles with Baidu Inc and Google Inc over their online book products.<\/p>\n<p>The CWWCS said no one was available to comment for this article. An Apple spokeswoman was not immediately available for comment. Calls to the Beijing No. 2 Intermediate People&#8217;s Court were not answered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of Chinese authors has sued Apple Inc for 11.9 million yuan ($1.9 million) in compensation for allegedly providing copyright-infringing books for download through its online store, Chinese financial magazine Caixin reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[51,257,53,26],"class_list":["post-1407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-apple","tag-copyright","tag-google","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1407"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1415,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407\/revisions\/1415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}