News Corp and The Mail Online have settled their dispute over copyright infringement out of court.
Earlier this year News Corp sent the publisher of The Mail Online a cease and desist letter regarding the site plagiarising its content, The Mail Online has since changed its practices and AdNews understands that this is one of the reasons that the matter could be settled.
Martin Clarke, The Mail Online's Pubilsher, told The Financial Times yesterday that the matter had been resolved, “very much to my satisfaction." However a News Corp spokesperson told AdNews: "We do note there has been a change in the practices of the Mail Online since we made our complaint. We are keeping a vigilant eye for any future breaches of copyright."
The dispute started between the two publishers in June of this year when the News Corp owned newspaper The Australian reported that News Corp Australia’s lawyers sent Mail Online’s owner, Associated Newspapers, its directors and its publisher Martin Clarke a legal letter, threatening to sue for breach of copyright and intellectual property rights unless it provided a legal undertaking to cease and desist from copying original content produced by News Corp journalists.
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