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3 Count: Plagiarism Again

Plagiarism Today

However, an element of the bill would make it retroactive for all companies with a market cap of $150 billion, an amount Disney exceeds. According to the lawsuit, which was filed in California, Moonton copied elements of its mobile game, Wild Rift , which is the mobile version of League of Legends. million settlement in 2018.

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The Bizarre Career of Damien Hirst

Plagiarism Today

Though he clarified that they were not “direct copies”, he claimed there were similarities in style, color choices and techniques used that were overwhelming to him. In a 2018 interview, he openly admitted that “All my ideas are stolen anyway,” which many of his fellow artists saw as an open confession to plagiarism.

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3 Count: Copyright Exhaustion

Plagiarism Today

Without this rule, many authors fear the UK market would be flooded with cheaper international copies. However, that was defeated by the German Supreme Court in 2018. According to authors, this enables authors and publishers to sell books at different prices for different countries.

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Rebrand the name, change the way we eat, and save (at least part of) the ecology: the story of copi

The IPKat

You may not love Asian carp, but you will hopefully love copi (and will give the fish a try at your favorite restaurant, thereby preventing ecological disaster). This recasting was done by a Chicago marketing company, Span Studio , which came up with a new name for the fish—"copi". There may be a lot to this change of name.

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Digital Textbook Pirate Handed Suspended Prison Sentence

TorrentFreak

However, there are those who have made cottage industries out of the sale of illegal copies at significantly lower prices. One such individual, a 28-year-old man from Denmark, was spotted by Rights Alliance selling copies of textbooks via DBA, Denmark’s most popular online marketplace. Man Handed Suspended Prison Sentence.

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Red Hex Rivalry: Valcrum Hubcaps vs. Dexter’s Fortress

Indiana Intellectual Property Law

In Cyprus, Texas , Valcrum, LLC (“Valcrum”), a company specializing in trailer and axle market products, is engaged in a legal dispute with Dexter Axle Company, LLC (“Dexter”) from Indiana over trademark and trade dress infringement regarding a hubcap design.

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Takedown Notice Wipes Game Boy Advance Emulator From GitHub

TorrentFreak

” This worked out initially but soon after GitHub took action, copies started to appear. This included one shared by the user “jsemu3”, which Nintendo took down in 2018. As history has shown, new copies are bound to pop up. Again, it was uploaded by a user with a familiar-sounding name; jsemu2.

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