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Court raises penalty for Little Mermaid copyright violation

February 9, 2022 GMT

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — An appeals court in Denmark has increased the compensation a newspaper was ordered to pay for violating the copyright of Copenhagen's The Little Mermaid statue with a cartoon depicting the bronze landmark as a zombie and a photo of it with a facemask.

Twitter bans pro-Trump meme maker for copyright violations

By DAVID KLEPPERJune 24, 2020 GMT

A conservative social media user whose far-right memes have been praised and reposted by President Donald Trump has been kicked off Twitter for repeated copyright violations...

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Minneapolis lawyer pleads guilty to federal fraud, money laundering charges in porn troll scheme

By Dan BrowningAugust 17, 2018 GMT

Paul Hansmeier, a Minneapolis lawyer who pioneered a lucrative scheme suing thousands of people for copyright violations after they downloaded pornography that he and a partner had planted on an internet file sharing server, pleaded guilty Friday to federal fraud and money laundering conspiracy charges.

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