Sweeping win for Portuguese Visapress
The Portuguese MMO organizations CISION, MANCHETE and CLIPPING CONSULTORES have been found guilty of using content without authorization from the rights holders represented by VISAPRESS.
In its ruling on Sept 4th the Portuguese intellectual property court finally ended a 6 years litigation process. It confirmed the right of Visapress to license the use of content from press publishers that are VISAPRESS afiliates. The MMOs will now have to be licensed by Visapress and pay retroactive license fees to 2010.
Visapress MD Carlos Eugenio said “Visapress and Portuguese publishers are very happy to see the end of this long running action. We now have a proper basis for working with MMOs. We appreciate the patient support we received from publishers, licensed MMOs, and PDLN colleagues in this long battle”.
