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Title    Facebook Will Only have to Pay ZeniMax Media $250 Million in Oculus Infringement Case
Date    Sunday July 01 2018, @09:14AM
Author    martyb
Topic   
from the I-wish-I-had-"only"-$250M dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/07/01/0226241

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

Original Submission

Links
  1. "takyon" - https://soylentnews.org/~takyon/
  2. "Oculus will pay ZeniMax $250 million for copyright infringement" - https://www.engadget.com/2018/06/28/facebook-zenimax-oculus-lawsuit-payout/
  3. "a little sue-happy" - https://www.engadget.com/2011/09/27/bethesda-tells-mojang-to-lay-down-its-virtual-guns-lawyer-up-fo/
  4. "initial $500 million claim" - https://www.engadget.com/2017/02/01/zenimax-partial-win-oculus-lawsuit/
  5. "John Carmack left" - https://www.engadget.com/2017/02/03/john-carmack-zenimax-lawsuit-facebook-post/
  6. "according to Bloomberg" - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-27/facebook-oculus-virtual-reality-stolen-tech-damages-are-halved
  7. "Oculus headsets be banned" - https://www.engadget.com/2017/02/24/zenimax-wants-to-stop-oculus-from-selling-vr-headsets/
  8. "Facebook/Oculus Ordered to pay $500 Million to ZeniMax" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/02/02/029242
  9. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=27621
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