(Ottawa) Shopify and a group of textbook publishers, which accused the tech company of profiting from pirated content and infringing on their trademarks, have asked a US court to throw out the lawsuit. ‘affair.
Posted at 3:45 p.m.
The joint filing, presented in a Virginia court this week, said Shopify and the companies had resolved the issue and wanted the case dismissed, and that each side would cover its own legal costs.
The legal battle began late last year, when textbook publishers alleged that Shopify allowed merchants using its software to illegally reproduce and sell textbooks, testbanks, and other identical or ” essentially indistinguishable” from their products.
The five publishers who brought the charges against the Ottawa tech company were Macmillan Learning, Cengage Learning, Elsevier, McGraw Hill and Pearson Education.
Shopify denied all of their claims and argued that it promptly responded to all infringement notices and takedown requests from publishers.
The company has counted more than 5,000 takedown requests or notices of trademark infringement under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act.