Meltwater consents to Isentia injunction restraining use of services
The Australian representatives of US-based media monitoring service Meltwater have agreed to comply with competitor Isentia’s legal demands not to access the Australian company’s services following court proceedings this week.
Isentia made an application to the Federal Court last week seeking orders to restrain Meltwater along with Melbourne staffer Shasank Mohapatra and his wife from using Isentia’s content, alleging the US company was breaching the service’s terms and conditions in accessing the media monitoring services and making false representations under Australia Consumer Law.
Sydney-based Isentia also went on to make claims Meltwater is engaging Indian associates to ‘scrape’ Isentia’s content and has been depriving Australian media companies of copyright royalties.
Isentia’s court hearing seeking the injunction didn’t proceed this week as Meltwater, Mohapatra and his wife all consented to the Federal Court making the orders effectively preventing Meltwater’s access to Isentia-supplied content from 20 June 2017.
