Yahoo Asia Pacific pays damages to SPH for illegally reproducing content

In a joint statement, Singapore Press Holdings Ltd (SPH) and Yahoo! Asia Pacific Pte Ltd (formerly known as Yahoo! Southeast Asia Pte Ltd) (Yahoo! Asia Pacific) announced that they have reached an amicable settlement of the copyright infringement suit commenced by SPH against Yahoo! Asia Pacific under Suit No. 831 of 2011/F and the counterclaim filed by Yahoo! Asia Pacific.

Under the settlement, Yahoo! Asia Pacific acknowledges that it has, in connection with its Yahoo! Singapore News site, reproduced content from SPH’s newspapers without SPH’s approval.

Yahoo! Asia Pacific has paid damages and costs to SPH, and has also undertaken not to amongst other things knowingly or intentionally infringe SPH’s copyrights.

As publishers, Yahoo! companies strive to respect the intellectual property rights of others wherever they do business, the release said, and that the actions by a small number of Yahoo! Asia Pacific employees are "deeply regretted."

The responsible employees have been disciplined or terminated.

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