Shopify settles copyright lawsuit with rival Shopline

Canadian e-commerce giant Shopify and Hong Kong-founded, Singapore-based competitor Shopline settled their copyright lawsuit this week. The news: Shopify sued Shopline two years ago , accusing the subsidiary of global tech firm Joyy of copying its e-commerce software “wholesale” to build a competing platform. The Ottawa company claimed Shopline infringed upon its copyright by producing and selling “a thinly-disguised knockoff” of its Dawn storefront template called Seed.