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Re:Designer gets accused of stealing his own work and billed... by patio11 on Sunday April 05, 2009 @11:18PM (#548237)
I think a certain law firm is going to get a very expensive lesson in the meaning of "tortious interference". God, this is such a canonical example of it you might as well print it in the freaking dictionary next to the definition.
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Re:Designer gets accused of stealing his own work and billed... by mechanical_fish on Sunday April 05, 2009 @11:41PM (#548267)
The definition:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortious_interference

That should save everyone who reads this a few clicks.

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Re:Designer gets accused of stealing his own work and billed... by vaksel on Monday April 06, 2009 @12:29AM (#548329)
based on the way the guy typed, I'd bet he'd let them get away with it, whenever they email him saying that they decided that he is right
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Re:Designer gets accused of stealing his own work and billed... by mattmaroon on Sunday April 05, 2009 @11:45PM (#548272)
Yeah, in my totally unprofessional opinion, if he can prove those are his originally there's a pretty compelling countersuit there. This sort of thing is why we have those.
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