Apple is still the target of a demand presented in China by the office regulatory of emissions of the country Asian. The reason is none other than the distribution of a propaganda film with more than twenty years old, according to Associated Press.
A Court of Beijing said to the cited half the last Saturday that the case was transmitted to the office by a centre of production State. It alleges that Apple has infringed its exclusive rights to broadcast the film Xuebo Dixiao. The translation of the title could be something like “fight bloody with a ferocious enemy”. It shows the Chinese army battling Japanese soldiers in the North of the country at the beginning of the 1930s.
The demand also goes against Heyi Information and Technology, the company that is behind the application Youku HD, which has been the responsible of allow to users play the film in question. The emissions control office alleges that this has caused great economic losses. We ask that both companies stop immediately the broadcast of the film and a compensation of $7,500 over other $3,000 to cover legal fees and costs of the demand.
Not is the first time that Apple has problems legal with the Administration china responsible of the media. In April this year, books and movies from iTunes stores were forced to close by the same office that now demand. That was related to the publication of an independent film, Ten Years, which Hong Kong’s future, imagine in 2025, with a police force of language, radical protests and riots. Also, the giant technological with base in Cupertino, along with others companies technological seated in Chinese, are object of “reviews of security” in the country, to determine what products are potentially dangerous for China and its consumers.
