Meituan.com and Dianping.com accused each other of picture infringement

2014/07/25

On July 17th, Yang Jun, the vice-president of sales of Meituan.com alleged that the infringement case which Dianping.com stole the group-purchasing photos of the Meituan.com had been judged by Xuhui District Court, Shanghai. In this infringement case, Meituan.com finally won the lawsuit and would receive compensation of 49,400 yuan from the Dianping.com. Soon afterwards, Dianping.com filed a lawsuit against Meituan.com. Dianping.com contended that more than 100 pictures of which it possessed copyright had been infringed by Meituan.com and that some photos were even directly screenshot from it. Now, Dianping.com has instituted legal proceedings to the Chaoyang District People’s Court, Beijing.


(Source: China IP Magazine)