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Re:When a newspaper “rips off” your blog, then taunts you ab... by edanm on Wednesday March 30, 2011 @11:02AM (#2387522)
Reminds of of this case, which happened to famous CS blogger Scott Aaronson:

Australian actresses are plagiarizing my quantum mechanics lecture to sell printers: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=277

tl;dr of the article: Someone created an Australian commercial for a printer. Two models are talking physics/CS to each other, and the tagline is "A more intelligent model". The models' script is copied from one of Scott Aaronson's lectures.

I think he ended up contacting them, and getting them to donate $5,000 to a CS foundation (instead of sewing them for copyright violations).

Re:When a newspaper “rips off” your blog, then taunts you ab... by cjtenny on Wednesday March 30, 2011 @12:20PM (#2387903)
Sounds like even without legal action, the case was /sewn/ shut!