eBay API and Copyright Violations

John Musser, January 12th, 2007

eBayeBay has recently enhanced their API to allow intellectual property owners to report violations programmatically. A set of three APIs let Verified Rights Owners (VeRO) Program particpants to track and report items that infringe on IP copyright

This story at AuctionBytes points-out that eBay has been sued by IP rights holders like Tiffany claiming that eBay was not doing enough to prevent this type of fraud and violation.

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