A Beijing company accused Shanda of abusing its dominate position in the online literature market, implementing monopolistic behaviors.

The plaintiff in the case is Beijing Scholar Electronic Technology Co., Ltd, operators of “Reading bar net” Scholar Electronic said in the writ, the company commissioned Kou Bin whose online nickname is known as “do not eat tomatoes” to write “Xingchenbian After”, and put series on “Reading bar net”. However, “the starting point of Chinese net” required the author to stop creation for the “Reading bar net”, and sent the letter of apology on the site.

Scholar Electronic believed that, because of the monopolistic position in the industry, Shanda ordered Kou Bin to stop creation, and subsequently claimed that the novel infringed copyrights demanding “Reading bar net” to remove the work. Therefore, the acts were alleged to abuse the market dominance position.

Scholar Electronic brought the two companies -Shanda and Yuen-ting technology- to the court, and called for an end to monopolistic practices, apology and compensation for the loss. At present, the case is still in progress. It was reported that both the plaintiff and defendant had another reputation case went to the Pudong New Area court, which was also under review.