The Ottawa-headquartered commerce company got settlements in cases against two people, general counsel Jess Hertz said in a LinkedIn post. In separate lawsuits in U.S. district courts late last year, Shopify alleged the people had “harassed” merchants on the platform by making “knowingly false” complaints that they were infringing the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA) in order to get products taken down. (The Logic)

Talking point: Shopify says it gets “thousands” of DMCA notices every month, with some online sellers increasingly weaponizing them by making repeated claims against competitors in an effort to get the tech company to shut down rival stores. (Witness the number of merchants tweeting at top Shopify executives about the problem.) In December, CEO Tobi Lütke announced it had launched a new reporting tool to try and stem the tide, and would sue what it considered to be bad actors; it’s taking a similar tack with patent trolls. A third DMCA case against John Doe defendants remains open.