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Police Threatened Past Times Copyright Elevate Claim

Recently inwards the news is Missouri motorist Daniel Smith. When stopped yesteryear constabulary close Independence, Missouri, next a driving accident, threatened to sue them nether copyright laws if they wrote downward his name. Smith, 45, allegedly told officers his advert was copyright protected in addition to that, every fourth dimension it appeared on their documents, he would launch a $500,000 lawsuit. He reputedly added that, if his claim wasn't paid inside 10 days, it would toll them $1.5 1000000 in addition to that, if they didn’t pay upward at that point, judgments would endure entered against all parties involved in addition to their property.

marvels at Smith’s cheek. Even if copyright vested inwards a advert (which does non seem to endure the case: run into Exxon Corporation v Exxon Insurance Consultants [1982] Ch 119), he suspects that Smith is non its writer in addition to wonders whether championship to his advert devolved to him every bit a beneficiary of his parents’ estate. The solely plausible affair most Smith’s assertion (viewed from a European perspective) is the generous scale of the damages you lot tin mail away brand it the United States.

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