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Facebook Will Only have to Pay ZeniMax Media $250 Million in Oculus Infringement Case

posted by martyb on Sunday July 01 2018, @09:14AM   Printer-friendly
from the I-wish-I-had-"only"-$250M dept.

takyon writes:

Oculus will pay ZeniMax $250 million for copyright infringement

Bethesda Softworks parent company ZeniMax Media has always been a little sue-happy. But maybe a recent decision from its case against Oculus (and by extension, Facebook) will cool its jets a bit. A jury recently decided that Zuckerberg and Co. will only pay $250 million of the initial $500 million claim from ZeniMax that when John Carmack left Bethesda-owned id Software for Oculus, he stole his former employer's intellectual property, according to Bloomberg.

Judge Ed Kinkeade ruled that Oculus would have to pay out $200 million for breach of contract and then and additional $50 million for copyright infringement. Additionally, Kinkeade declined ZeniMax's demand that sales of Oculus headsets be banned.

Previously: Facebook/Oculus Ordered to pay $500 Million to ZeniMax

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by anubi on Sunday July 01 2018, @09:55AM

    by anubi (2828) on Sunday July 01 2018, @09:55AM (#700919) Journal

    The lawyers got paid. The buyers of any Oculus products will ultimately foot the bill for this.

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