The troubles for the duo behind socio-political website The Real Singapore just keep piling up.
After getting their site shut down by the Media Development Authority and getting charged with seven counts each for publishing seditious articles and failing to produce documents necessary for investigations, 26-year-old Yang Kaiheng and his 22-year-old Australian fiancee Ai Takagi are currently being sued by the Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) for copyright infringement, the media giant's flagship newspaper The Straits Times reports.
They were walking towards the State Courts this morning to attend a pre-trial conference when court papers were served on them. Cold.
In the writ of summons, SPH claims that The Real Singapore infringed copyrights in their content by reproducing and/or substantially reproducing SPH articles as well as authorising their reproduction without the licence and authorisation of the company.
The media company is seeking a declaration that The Real Singapore have infringed copyright, an injunction to restrain them as well as damages or an account of profits they made through copyright infringement and subsequently, payment of all sums found due.
More trouble incoming for Takagi and Yang then. The next pre-trial conference for their case is on July 1.
Photo: @channelnewsasia via Twitter
The troubles for the duo behind socio-political website The Real Singapore just keep piling up.
After getting their site shut down by the Media Development Authority and getting charged with seven counts each for publishing seditious articles and failing to produce documents necessary for investigations, 26-year-old Yang Kaiheng and his 22-year-old Australian fiancee Ai Takagi are currently being sued by the Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) for copyright infringement, the media giant's flagship newspaper The Straits Times reports.
They were walking towards the State Courts this morning to attend a pre-trial conference when court papers were served on them. Cold.
In the writ of summons, SPH claims that The Real Singapore infringed copyrights in their content by reproducing and/or substantially reproducing SPH articles as well as authorising their reproduction without the licence and authorisation of the company.
The media company is seeking a declaration that The Real Singapore have infringed copyright, an injunction to restrain them as well as damages or an account of profits they made through copyright infringement and subsequently, payment of all sums found due.
More trouble incoming for Takagi and Yang then. The next pre-trial conference for their case is on July 1.
Photo: @channelnewsasia via Twitter