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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   
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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• 50 Mil perpetual license fee? (Score: 2) by frojack on Sunday July 01 2018, @06:32PM

  by frojack (1554) on Sunday July 01 2018, @06:32PM (#701016) Journal

  Additionally, Kinkeade declined ZeniMax's demand that sales of Oculus headsets be banned.

  Does that mean continued revenue flow for to ZeniMax for continued violations or does the judge think that the 50 million for copyright infringement makes continued future infringement ok?

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