Dispute in Japan Settled for US$800,000.
Published:
4 July 1999 y., Sunday
An illegal software copying dispute between seven foreign and domestic software houses and a Japanese company in Kyoto has been settled for about 100 million yen. The settlement was announced June 21 by the Business Software Alliance (BSA), a nonprofit, U.S.-based organization that promotes the protection of computer software copyrights. BSA has been supporting the case in which the company charged with illegally copying the software must now pay 100,578,318 yen for damages it caused to the seven software houses. The seven software developers are Microsoft Corp., Apple Computer Inc., Symantec Corp., Adobe Systems Inc., Inprise Corp. and Visio Corp. of the United States, plus Justsystem Corp. of Japan. The damaging party_s name was not disclosed. According to the BSA, this case of illegal software copying was first reported by the group of foreign and domestic companies, as well as sources outside those companies. Based on the reports, the seven software developers asked BSA to help solve the case.
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