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Category: Literary Works
Adapt or Die, Something Wiki This Way Comes
The academic scientific community conventionally shares research results, ideas and expertise. Not surprisingly, the commoditization of peer reviewed journal articles seems antiquated with cost and accessibility issues when compared with…
Patenting a novel's plot could deprive users of their rights under the Copyright Act
Andrew Knight, a US novelist and a patent agent, was the first to apply for a patent on the unique plot of his novel. Although the US patent office rejected…
French student arrested for posting non-authorized copies of Harry Potter
Being an enthusiastic fan of J.K Rowling’s Potter novels I was infuriated to hear the French student arrested for publishing his own translation of the seventh chapter of the Potter…
French student arrested for posting non-authorized copies of Harry Potter
When a French teen becomes the target of police and is subjected to their interrogation while spending a night behind bars, one would imagine that perhaps the teen had committed…
The Pirate is off the hook in liability Never-Never Land
In August 2007, an unnamed 16 year old from Aix-en-Provence, France, was arrested, detained, and subsequently released for posting his own unauthorised French translation of The Deathly Hallows (the seventh…