Shopify Inc. SHOP-T and a group of textbook publishers, which accused the tech company of profiting from content that is pirated or infringes on their trademarks, have asked a U.S. court to dismiss the case.
The joint filing made in a Virginia court this week says Shopify and the companies have resolved the issue and want the case dismissed with each side covering their own legal fees.
The court battle began late last year, when the textbook publishers alleged Shopify allowed merchants using its software to illegally reproduce and sell textbooks, test banks and other manuals that are identical or “substantially indistinguishable” from their products.
The five publishers that made the accusations against the Ottawa-based technology company were Macmillan Learning, Cengage Learning Inc., Elsevier Inc., McGraw Hill LLC and Pearson Education Inc.
Shopify denied all of their claims and argued that it has swiftly responded to all of the publishers’ notices of infringement and takedown requests.
The company counted more than 5,000 takedown requests or trademark infringement notices the publishers have filed under the U.S.’s Digital Millennium Copyright Act.