A few years ago, the database company Oracle sued Google, arguing that Google's Android operating system infringed the copyright of Oracle's Java technology.
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The battle centers on Oracle&aposs claim that Google unfairly infringed the copyright of key parts of its Java technology to build the Android operating system.
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Last year, a Paris court decided that Mr. Koons had infringed the copyright of another French photographer to make a porcelain sculpture of two naked children holding some flowers.
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Take Fo' Records unsuccessfully sued Cash Money Records alleging that Juvenile's "Back That Azz Up" infringed the copyright of DJ Jubilee's "Back That A$$ Up".
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In 2017, Lastrada Entertainment claimed that "Uptown Funk" infringed the copyright of Zapp & Roger's 1980 hit song "More Bounce to the Ounce". A total of three lawsuits had been filed by different parties.
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Columbia Pictures sued Krasna and the filmmakers for plagiarism, claiming the story infringed the copyright of a story they had bought in 1942 called "Dear Mr Private" and intended to make with Lee Bowman. Columbia was unsuccessful, appealed the decision and lost the appeal.
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Fictional band member Murdoc Niccals stated the following about "Stylo" in a track-by-track commentary: Reggae singer Eddy Grant claimed that this song bears similarities to his 1983 song "Time Warp" stating that "I am outraged that the Gorillaz have infringed the copyright of my song Time Warp, claiming their song Stylo to be an original composition" and within weeks of its release he began consulting lawyers.
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Kulatunga, a Sri Lankan computer engineer,wrote a program in Visual Basic for an English–Sinhala dictionary, using the dictionary entries from the English–Sinhalese Dictionary of Gunapala Piyasena Malalasekera. The program was marketed from 23 November 2002. In 2008 he started a free internet version of it, the first online English–Sinhala dictionary. Kulatunga later admitted that he had infringed the copyright of the Malalasekera English–Sinhala dictionary in creating his software, but he said in 2015 that he no longer infringed on copyrights.
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In December 2014, Dailymotion was fined €1.3 million. The Paris Court of Appeal found that the site had infringed the copyright of French television station TF1 and news channel LCI. The court ruled that Dailymotion had failed to take action against users illegally posting TF1 content online. According to Guillaume Clément, Chief Product & Technology Officer, as of 2017 the company employs a combination of human curation and automated tools to ensure copyright holder rights are protected within the destination, and it is able to remove questionable or illegal content within two hours.
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"She's Not Cryin' Anymore" is a mid-tempo, backed by piano and steel-string acoustic guitar. In it, the male narrator explains that his lover is "not cryin' anymore", now that she has left him for another man. He also expresses his regret for having ignored her when she needed to be loved. In April 1993, Georgia based songwriter Danny Mote filed a lawsuit against Cyrus and the writers of "She's Not Cryin' Anymore", claiming that the song infringed the copyright of Mote's own 1973 composition "Crying Eyes".
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In April 2006, Smith ruled that Dan Brown had not infringed the copyright of Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, authors of the pseudo-historical book The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail. While Brown had taken ideas from the earlier book, he did not copy the "central theme" of his book from there. As ideas themselves cannot be copyrighted, Smith ruled that Brown had therefore not substantially copied the original work. Within his printed judgment,Baigent & Anor v The Random House Group Ltd (The Da Vinci Code) [2006 EWHC 719 (Ch) (7 April 2006)], England and Wales High Court (Chancery Division) Decisions which was delivered on 7 April 2006, the judge embedded a coded message, apparently placed for amusement.
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