Shopify Sues Rival JOYY’s Shopline For Copyright Infringement

Canadian e-commerce provider Shopify (SHOP.TO), sued a subsidiary of Chinese technology company JOYY Inc (YY.O), in New York federal court on Tuesday, accusing it of illegally copying Shopify’s software to build its own e-commerce platform.

Shopify said in the lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, that JOYY’s Shopline created a “thinly disguised knockoff” of its Dawn storefront-template technology to power competing e-commerce services.

Representatives for JOYY did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A Shopify spokesperson said in a statement that the company had “taken aggressive legal action against Shopline to uphold the integrity of Shopify’s products.”

Read more at Reuters