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| Police arrest teen over Potter translation |
Books |
| Police arrested a teenager suspected of posting his own translation of the latest Harry Potter novel on the Internet weeks before the official French release |
France |
08/08/2007 |
CIB-7-3158 |
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| Abercrombie: Burlington firm sold counterfeit attire |
Clothing |
| Popular youth fashion retailer Abercrombie & Fitch is pursuing what it calls "very significant" counterfeiting allegations against Burlington Brands, a national discounter based in Alamance County. |
USA |
08/12/2007 |
CIB-7-3179 |
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| Tiffany Wins Final Judgment Against Counterfeits Seller |
Luxury Goods |
| Jeweler Tiffany & Co. on Monday said a Federal Court in New York has entered a final judgment against a retailer that had sold fake Tiffany merchandise. |
USA |
08/06/2007 |
CIB-7-3139 |
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| Counterfeiter faces jail over sale of fake DVDs |
Movies |
| A COUNTERFEITER faces jail after he set himself up in business making and selling pirated DVDs, York magistrates heard. |
UK |
08/10/2007 |
CIB-7-3171 |
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| Authorities destroy bootleg CDs and DVDs worth RD$85M |
Movies & Music |
| The National Copyright Office (ONDA) destroyed 350,461 copies of bootleg CDs and DVDs yesterday, which calculated at an average price of RD$100 and RD$250, means RD$85 million less for the “pirates.” |
Dominican Republic |
08/10/2007 |
CIB-7-3172 |
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| Fake FBI Anti-Piracy Label Manufacturers Sentenced In Largest US CD & DVD Piracy Case |
Movies & Music |
| Agents Seized Nearly 500,000 CDs and 6,135 Stampers Capable Of Producing More Than 300 Million Pirated and Counterfeit CDs and DVDs |
USA |
08/06/2007 |
CIB-7-3138 |
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| Trial over killer fake medicine |
Pharmaceuticals |
| Five people involved in making a fake medicine that killed 13 patients have gone on trial, in the latest scandal to hit China's corruption-plagued drug industry. |
China |
08/09/2007 |
CIB-7-3162 |
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| Video Games and Movies Pirate gets 2 Years |
Recreational Goods |
| A Mount Vernon, Ill., man was sentenced in the Eastern District of Virginia to two years in prison for the unlawful sale of copyrighted video games. |
USA |
08/08/2007 |
CIB-7-3167 |
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| Microsoft Software Pirate Slapped With Prison Sentence |
Software |
| Prosecutors alleged that a Georgia man made unauthorized duplicates of the Windows operating system and pocketed more than $226,000 |
Georgia |
08/09/2007 |
CIB-7-3165 |
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| Microsoft plea: Toss ruling on patents |
Software |
| Microsoft Corp. asked an appeals court to throw out a finding that it must pay a Michigan company $142 million for infringing patents for a way to thwart software piracy. |
USA |
08/09/2007 |
CIB-7-3170 |
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