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Yahoo hits back against Singapore media giant over copyrights
Dec 14, 2011, 1:36 GMT
Singapore - US internet giant Yahoo Inc filed a counterclaim against Singapore's largest newspaper publisher after being sued over alleged copyright violations, Yahoo said Wednesday.
Singapore Press Holdings Ltd (SPH) claimed in November that Yahoo breached its copyright over 23 articles allegedly lifted from its newspapers and sued the internet company in the city-state's High Court.
In a statement posted on its Singapore website, Yahoo denied the allegations.
Yahoo said it filed a counterclaim Tuesday, 'which alleges that on at least two known occasions over the last year, SPH had itself substantially reproduced Yahoo content on its citizen-journalism site STOMP.'
Yahoo countered that 'copyright law does not protect facts and information and that the public has the right to be informed of news and current events in Singapore.'
The publisher, one of Asia's biggest media companies, has until December 28 to file and serve its reply and defence to the counterclaim, the Straits Times newspaper said.
The company has a near-monopoly over Singapore's newspapers, publishing 18 titles in four languages, including the flagship Straits Times.
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