Updated below: Facebook has finally started taking action against its knockoff sites, and has first sued the one most easily accessible in terms of regulatory laws: it has filed a copyright lawsuit against StudiVZ, a German social network which looks very similar, and accuses it of
Updated: Facebook Sues German Knockoff Site StudiVZ; Will Others Follow?
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Updated below: Facebook has finally started taking action against its knockoff sites, and has first sued the one most easily accessible in t…
If StudiVZ is accused by copying Facebook, the German kids community website "Panfu" http://www.panfu.de/ is doing exactly the same business with Clubpenguin.com – panfu was also bought out by Holtzbrinck group. I wonder why the Walt Disney Group doesn't react … maybe a question of time?
I know he would have been ten years old when it happend, but maybe one of his senior yes-men could have have dropped M.Z. a clue about how Planet Earth has historically worked:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_v._Microsoft