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Plagiarism By MSN India’s Content Partner - 2 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 10 Apr 2008 05:12 AM PST

Content from a post by Melanie Phung on the ”10 Years of Viagra Spam” was allegedly plagiarised by MSN India’s content partner India Syndicate, by “Aditya Mehta”. Phung has a…

Bharatmatrimony Obtains Restraning Order Over Domain Name - 2 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 20 Feb 2008 09:21 PM PST

A warning here for domainers, looking to rely on typos or misinterpretation of spellings of popular domain names: Consim Info (the Bharatmatrimony) has obtained an injunction restraining “bharathmatrimony.net” from infringing…

Scrabulous’ Fate To Be Decided Today? - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 22 Jan 2008 10:26 PM PST

Hectic negotiations are underway between Hasbro, Scrabulous and Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS), and one might either see the Kolkata based Agarwalla brothers either sell or shut down the application today,…

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Scrabble Makers Order Facebook To Take Down Scrabulous - 2 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 17 Jan 2008 02:36 AM PST

Hasbro and Mattel, the marketers of Scrabble, are accusing the creators of popular Facebook app Scrabulous of violating the copyright on the 70-year-old word game and are demanding that the…

Monsoon Multimedia Sued In US Over GPL Violation; Already In Talks To Settle Out Of Court - 2 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 25 Sep 2007 10:25 AM PST

The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) has filed a copyright infringement suit in the US against Noida headquartered Monsoon Multimedia, alleging a violation of the GNU General Public Licence version…

On Startups And Copyrights - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 06 Aug 2007 08:17 PM PST

I’m not getting into the whole copyright vs copyleft debate, but pluggd.in gives the lowdown on copyright issues that startups (for that matter, any company) might face. In India, rights…