Publisher Fined Record $250M in Copyright Case

22 July 2010
By Alexander Bratersky
A Moscow court has ordered a leading publishing house to pay an unprecedented 7.6 billion rubles ($249.6 million) in damages to a smaller rival for copyright infringement in a lawsuit that lawyers said highlights the shortcomings of Russia's intellectual property rights laws.

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