Le.com and Lesports Sued for Default

2017/10/24

Recently, Haidian People’s Court accepted a contract dispute case filed by Great Sports Media Co.,Ltd. (Great Sports) claiming that the defendant Le.com Information Technology (Beijing) Corporation Ltd. and Lesports Culture Industry Development (Beijing) Co., Ltd. had not paid their 1 million yuan which was included in the whole 7.5 million yuan copyright fees after Great Sports had fulfilled its duty of exclusively licensing the information network transmission right and broadcasting right of WTA and Snooker Games and urged the defendants to make the payment for many times with no result. Great Sports held that the defendants’ behaviors had constituted a breach of their contract and thus filed an appeal to the court claiming that le.com should pay 1 million yuan copyright fees and other relevant overdue fine, and Lesports should bear joint liability.