Facebook verklagt StudiVZ

Nik Cubrilovic von Techcrunch schreibt:

Facebook is pursuing social networks it believes have copied their design or features by suing German social network StudiVZ. The Financial Times has reported that Facebook filed a suit in the Californian Supreme Court against the German company for what it claims is an infringement of Facebook’s “look, feel, features and services”.

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Facebook does seem to have a claim here, as the German site looks like nothing more than Facebook in red and translated in German. Everything from the first public page, the sign-up page and the profile pages look eerily similar to the US-based social network. StudiVZ was acquired earlier this year by the German media group Georg von Holtzbrinck, with an acquisition price in the €100M range. They always say to sue where the money is, and Facebook has certainly found a pile of it by targeting Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck.

Das war wahrscheinlich nur eine Frage der Zeit. Nächste Frage: Welche Konsequenz hätte es für ein deutsches Unternehmen, in Kalifornien schuldig gesprochen zu werden?

Hier könnten Mark Zuckerberg et. al. schon mal die nächsten rechtlichen Schritte planen und prüfen (es handelt sich um ein Angebot der Georg-von-Holtzbrinck-Gruppe. Oh, Ironie.)