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constitute these niggling items inwards today's Telegraph:

claims that German-based automobile maker Volkswagen took every bit its VW logo a blueprint which was i of 3 commissioned from him inwards 1939. Representatives of the fellowship state in that place is no prove that it always received his designs. The consequence volition presently survive resolved through litigation inwards Austria. Borg maintains that he is non interested inwards the money, merely entirely inwards beingness acknowledged every bit the logo's designer.

resurrected if Nanjing Auto, a Chinese manufacturer, is successful inwards its bid for the MG Rover works life inwards Longbridge. Nanjing, who has lay inwards a £50 1000000 bid for the failed plant, has enlisted the services of applied scientific discipline blueprint grouping Arup inwards producing a nail novel vehicle which it hopes to build there.
 constitute these niggling items inwards today SUNDAY BEST
* The VIRGIN brand, together with thus successful for many products together with services, has failed to pick out care of the public's imagination inwards the plain of ladies' underwear. Virginwear called inwards Hodgsons, the administrators, who convey had problems trying to dispose of to a greater extent than than £2 1000000 worth of VIRGIN stock. Hodgsons' staff are reported to convey been "up to their armpits" inwards unwanted knickers.


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 constitute these niggling items inwards today SUNDAY BESTAnanova reports that Newcastle creative mortal Sally Madge has gone into partnership amongst her pet gerbil. The rodent, which is gnawing its agency through a re-create of the 1933 edition of the New Illustrated Universal Reference Book, is beingness exhibited inwards "A Gerbil's Guide to the Galaxy" at Newcastle's Waygood Gallery. The display consists of remnants of the 72-year former book, an empty cage containing a nest of mass fragments together with a video webcast of the gerbil inwards action. Sally refers to the gerbil's "personal translation" of the mass yesteryear choosing item words together with phrases. When the mass is completely transformed, the shredded newspaper volition survive turned into a novel slice of artwork.

wonders, every bit usual, how much of this concept is protectable yesteryear copyright together with what mightiness survive the parameters of infringement.

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