Tracing Italian Developers’ Features, Asked Facebook to Pay IDR 65.4 Billion

Liputan6.com, Jakarta – Facebook ordered to pay compensation of USD 4.72 million (equivalent to Rp.65.4 billion) to Italian developers.

This compensation payment is due Facebook is accused of plagiarizing a feature made by an Italian developer called “Nearby” on its social network.

Reuters reported, an appeals court in Milan, Italy, upheld a 2019 ruling that said Facebook copied the Nearby feature of the Faround app owned by Business Competence developer.

Quoted from The Verge, Friday (8/1/2020), this case started in 2012. At that time, Business Competence launched the Faround application which was designed to help users find friends. Facebook near them.

The application has succeeded in gaining a lot of users in the Italian market. But a few months later, Facebook launched its own “Nearby” feature, which also competes with companies like Foursquare and Yelp.

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