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Last month speed camera warning specialist Coyote System was sentenced by a French court to pay €75,000 to its competitor GPS Prevent for copyright infringement. The French court found that Coyote System had copied a speed camera database created by GPS Prevent and resold it to a third party. The third party was not held responsible of copyright infringement.
To prove its case GPS Prevent had introduced a fingerprint in its database and this probe - in the form of three false GPS coordinates of speedcamera sites – was found in the database of the third party which licensed the data from Coyote. These facts happened between 2006 and 2007.
Even if without consequences for selling its own products, this court sentence, issued during the holiday season, is a serious drawback for Coyote which has recently launched a new range of connected speedcamera warning devices. Both Coyote and GPS Prevent are leaders on the French market and their activities have moved to a pan-European focus in the last 18 months.
The full sentence of the court is available below (in French).
Friday December 11, 2009
Ludovic Privat