sentences:  The justification given by Virtual Map was that enough skill and effort was made in using SLA data to create maps that the company can claim its own independent copyright to, and suffered from a loss of potential profit when businesses reproduced their maps online without paying any licensing fees.Such use constituted, as Virtual Map claims, infringement of the Copyright Law and has angered existing clients who have legally paid to license their maps.This position was endorsed by the High Court of Singapore, which gave Virtual Map the green light to send cease and desist letters to hundreds of companies and organisations who have used the maps on their websites in a similar manner, demanding that they either pay up to $10,000 or more, or to face legal action.