The Washington Post and other news organizations have accused iPad news reader Zite of copyright infringement and told the Canadian startup behind it to stop displaying their articles.
"The Zite application is plainly unlawful," the 11 media outlets said in a "cease-and-desist" letter sent on Wednesday to Zite chief executive Ali Davar, a copy of which was obtained by AFP.Vancouver-based Zite was launched on March 9 and claimed to have 120,000 downloads of the free application in its first week in Apple's App Store.n their letter, the 11 news organizations said Zite "intentionally and pervasively infringes on our copyrights" by publishing reformatted copies of articles and photographs without permission.
"Your application takes the intellectual property of our companies, as well as the hard and sometimes dangerous work of tens of thousands of people," they said. "It deprives our websites of traffic and advertising revenue."
There was no immediate reply from Zite to an AFP request for comment about the letter.
Zite is one of a number of news readers developed for Apple's iPad.
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