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On one hand, unattributed copying is rampant, widely accepted and even necessary. Much of what lawyers write have only one or two ways that they can correctly be written, thus it’s common to copy the works of others, especially from one’s own firm or their past work. While cases like this one are rare, they do happen.
The three worked with a company named Construction Technologies and, as part of their work, they would activate unlicensed copies of software for customers by using either cracking programs or key generators to remove license restrictions.
As part of their series The Facebook Files , which is an examination of leaked internal documents from the company, the paper published a scathing review of the company’s practices surrounding copied content. Back in 2011, Google had a serious problem. It has an addiction to copied content. Bottom Line.
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Hons) LLB from NALSAR, Hyderabad in 2011 and MSc from Oxford, UK in 2012. The similarity/copying should be slavish and of a high degree between the product of the plaintiff and the product of the defendant. Roshan is a practising counsel, who has been practising for the last 12 years before the Supreme Court and the Delhi High Court.
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