In addition to the millions of dollars that were awarded, Judge Scola also signed off on a permanent injunction to sign over the websites’ domain names to the media giant. The company has managed to score dozens of millions in damages from a wide variety of streaming sites with relative ease. The media giant initially suggested that it would request the maximum of $2 million in trademark infringement damages per site, but has opted go “only” for half.ĪBS-CBN’s most recent win follows a pattern of similar verdicts in recent months. In addition, four of the defendants received an additional $30,000 in copyright infringement damages on top. These damages are not for copyright infringement, as one would expect, but for violating ABS-CBN’s trademark. In his verdict, US District Judge Robert Scola Jr orders the 19 websites to pay $1 million in damages each. This prompted ABS-CBN to file for a default judgment which was granted this week. “Defendants’ entire Internet-based website businesses amount to nothing more than illegal operations established and operated in order to infringe the intellectual property rights of ABS-CBN and others,” the company wrote in its original complaint.ĭespite facing hefty damages, none of the defendants turned up in court. These sites also attract visitors from other countries, including the United States, where they target people of Philippine origin.
The lawsuit in question was filed in April and targets, ,, and several other streaming portals that specialize in Philippine content. This week a federal court in Florida signed a default judgment against 19 websites that offered links to copyright infringing streams of ABS-CBN owned movies.
ABS-CBN, the largest media and entertainment company in the Philippines, has booked another victory in the United States.
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