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2 unusual facts about Douglas v Hello! Ltd


Douglas v Hello! Ltd

The Douglases and OK! Magazine claimed for breach of confidence, invasion of privacy, breach of the Data Protection Act 1998 and intention to damage and conspiracy to injure.

Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones agreed a deal with OK! Magazine which would give the company exclusivity over their wedding which took place in 2000 at the Plaza Hotel in New York.


All Samples Cleared!

The title was a reference to the court battle over an illegal sample Biz used on his 1991 song "Alone Again."

Cabir Maira

Cabir has also worked as the Second Unit Director or Assistant Director for Vikram Bhatt's "Shaapit: The Cursed" (2010), ASA Productions & Enterprises.

Chan Kam-chuen

He became the special Adviser to director for the Cable & Wireless PLC and director of the Hong Kong Telephone Co. Ltd. and Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation later on.

Cobasys

On July 14, 2009, the sale of Cobasys to SB LiMotive Co. Ltd., an electric vehicle battery joint venture between Samsung SDI Co. Ltd. and Robert Bosch GmbH, was announced.

Common Public Radio Interface

The companies working to define the specification include Ericsson AB, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd, NEC Corporation, Alcatel Lucent and Nokia Solutions and Networks Co. KG.

Debarwa

The Japanese company Hitachi once operated a mine near Debarwa, but it was shut down in the 1960s due to the outbreak of the Eritrean War of Independence from Ethiopia.

Donkey Kong

In the case, Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Nintendo Co., Ltd., a United States District Court ruled that Universal had acted in bad faith, and that it had no right over the name King Kong or the characters and story.

Economy of Reading, Berkshire

Other technology companies with a significant presence in the town include Agilent Technologies, Assuria, Audio & Design (Recording) Ltd, Bang & Olufsen, Cisco, Ericsson, Harris Corporation, Intel, Nvidia, Sage, Sagem Orga, SGI, Symantec, Symbol Technologies, Verizon Business, Virgin Media, Websense, Xansa (now Steria), and Xerox.

Estrada de Ferro Santos-Jundiaí

The locomotives for this changeover had been constructed by Hitachi.

Fujimoto Photo Industries Co. Ltd.

Semi Prince (1934), with Schneider lenses and German shutters,distributed by Fukada Shōkai

Grand Upright Music, Ltd. v. Warner Bros. Records Inc.

As early as 1989, Dr. Dre's production was styled around fewer samples per track, studio instrumentation, and heavy sampling from artists – Parliament-Funkadelic most notably in Dre's case – who were amenable to having their music sampled by hip hop producers.

Biz Markie, a rapper signed to Warner Bros. Records, had sampled a portion of the music from the song "Alone Again (Naturally)" by singer/songwriter Gilbert O'Sullivan, for use in "Alone Again", a track from Markie's third album, I Need a Haircut.

Gust Co. Ltd.

On 7 December 2011 the financial news source Nikkei reported that Tecmo Koei had bought all shares of the company from the stakeholders for 2.2 billion yen with the intention to make social games of Gust's Atelier console role-playing game franchise.

Hainaim Publishing Co., Ltd.

The company's translated English titles include He's Just Not That Into You by Greg Behrendt, Love Letters of Great Men by John Kirkland, Comet by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan, and the Chicken Soup for the Soul series.

Hooked! Real Motion Fishing

This game was developed by SIMS, the developer of several fishing games including Sega Marine Fishing, the Dreamcast version of Sega Bass Fishing, and Top Angler: Real Bass Fishing.

HuneX

HuneX is a video game developer formed as a partnership between NEC Home Electronics, Ltd. and Human in 1992.

I Need a Haircut

The resulting case was Grand Upright Music, Ltd. v. Warner Bros. Records Inc., in which the court granted an injunction against the defendants to prevent further copyright infringement of the plaintiff's song by sampling and referred them for criminal prosecution.

IBJ

The Industrial Bank of Japan, Ltd: Japanese bank, one of the predecessors to Mizuho Financial Group

Jacob McArthur Mooney

The book, published by Toronto's McClelland & Stewart, Ltd., is notable for its themes of self-education and for being dedicated to the Wikimedia Foundation.

Kikizo

Video Games Daily is home to over 300 interviews with high profile video game industry executives; as of July 2011 it remains the only consumer gaming site in the world to have interviewed all three console platforms' top-level bosses: Satoru Iwata - President of Nintendo Co., Ltd, Kaz Hirai - President and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc and Robbie Bach - Chief Xbox Officer, Microsoft.

Leonard Outerbridge

Harvela Investments Ltd v. Royal Trust of Canada (CI) Ltd 1986 AC 207, an English contract law case, in which Sir Leonard Outerbridge was involved shortly before his death.

Let's Fish! Hooked On

Created by Sims Co., Ltd and published by Wired Productions with character designs by Poyoyon Rock.

Lexmark

In April 2013, Funai Electric Company, Ltd. announced that it had signed an agreement to acquire Lexmark's inkjet technology and assets for approximately $100 million (approximately ¥ 9.5 billion).

Margaret Weis

Her newest company, Margaret Weis Productions, Ltd, publishes RPG line based on several licenses including Serenity and Battlestar Galactica as well as Ed Greenwood's new solo venture into roleplaying, Castlemourn.

Marvelman

Marvelman, also known as Miracleman for trademark reasons in his American reprints and story continuation, is a fictional comic book superhero created in 1954 by writer-artist Mick Anglo for publisher L. Miller & Son.

MGM Studios, Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd.

Fearing lawsuits similar to MGM v. Grokster, Mark Gorton, the chief executive officer of the firm that produces LimeWire, has said that he plans to stop distributing his file sharing program.

Mitsubishi 500

The Mitsubishi 500 was the first passenger car produced after the Second World War by Shin Mitsubishi Heavy-Industries, Ltd, one of the companies which would become Mitsubishi Motors.

MV Claymore 2

In August 2009 she was purchased by Nigle Jolly, of Stoney Creek Shipping Co. Ltd and is contracted out by the Pitcairn Islands Government for 4 scheduled trips out of New Zealand to deliver cargo supplies to Pitcairn Island and also carries passengers to and from Pitcairn Island out of Mangareva totaling 8 scheduled trips to and from the Island each year.

Nexon Co. Ltd.

Nexon went public on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on December 13, 2011 in an initial public offering, the largest in Japan for 2011 and the second largest by a technological company for 2011 worldwide.

OPA co. ltd.

opened the 'Oriental Park Avenue' store in September 1988 in front of the Sanyo Shinkansen Shin-Kobe Station.

OpenMAX

Promoting members in 2008 were AMD, Apple, ARM, Creative, Dell Inc, Ericsson, Freescale, Imagination Technologies Group plc, Intel, IBM, Motorola, Nokia, Nvidia Corporation, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd, SK Telecom, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc and Texas Instruments.

Poly Technologies

Poly has established business relations with hundreds of enterprises and governmental organizations of nearly 100 countries and regions, including many world famous multinational corporations such as Boeing of the United States, Bombardier Inc. of Canada, Chevron - Texaco of the United States, Benz of Germany, Ferrari of Italy, State Corporation 'Rosoboronexport' and Japanese Sagawa Logistic Co., Ltd.

Ritesh Sidhwani

Ritesh Sidhwani (born 1973) is a Bollywood film producer, who founded a film production house under the banner of Excel Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. Along with long-time friend Farhan Akhtar, he brought to the audience Dil Chahta Hai, his first film under his banner.

Robert Vesco

In 1970, Vesco began a successful takeover bid for Investors Overseas Service, Ltd., a mutual fund investment firm with holdings of $1.5 billion run by financier Bernard Cornfeld, who had run into trouble with the SEC.

SS Desabla

The SS Desabla was built by Hawthorn Leslie & Co. Ltd at Newcastle upon Tyne in 1913 for Bank Line, Glasgow (Andrew Weir Shipping & Trading Co. Ltd).

SS El Grillo

The steam ship SS El Grillo was built in 1922 at Armstrong W. G. & Whitworth Co. Ltd., Newcastle-Upon-Tyne and operated by The Bowring Steamship Co., based at Liverpool.

SS Lambridge

In 1939 she was sold to Sir Wm. Reardon Smith & Sons, Ltd, who renamed her SS Botlea.

Stallergenes

In 2010, Stallergenes signed an exclusive partnership agreement with Japanese biopharmaceutical company Shionogi & Co., Ltd. to promote the development, registration, and distribution of the "Stalair Program" in Japan.

Synta Technology Corporation of Taiwan

investors, established the Suzhou Synta Optical Technology Co., Ltd in Suzhou (Jiangsu), China (outside Shanghai) as a manufacturing facility producing telescopes for Celestron and Tasco.

The Assassination Bureau

The Assassination Bureau Limited (released in North America as The Assassination Bureau) is a black comedy film made in 1969 based on an unfinished novel, The Assassination Bureau, Ltd by Jack London.

UHAPI Forum

The UHAPI Forum was established in November 2004 by Samsung, Hewlett-Packard, Philips, Access Co. Ltd. and the Digital TV Industry Alliance of China (DTVIA).

Union Steamship Company

It became a P&O subsidiary in 1917 and founded Union Airways of NZ in 1934.

Velasco-class cruiser

The first two ships, Velasco and Gravina, built by the Thames Ironworks & Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd. at Leamouth, London in the United Kingdom, had fewer but heavier guns and were slightly faster than the next six, which were built at various yards in Spain.

Volkswagen Group China

In 1984, a joint venture (JV) was established between Volkswagen Group and Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (now SAIC Motor), creating Shanghai Volkswagen Automotive Co., Ltd. (SVW).

Walter Kotaba

Kotaba is the President and 100% shareholder of Polnet Communications. Ltd., which owns 8 US AM radio stations, as well as of Polstudios, Inc, which runs Polish-language television broadcaster Polvision.

Wayne Sales

Wayne Sales (born December 28, 1949) is the former Chief Executive Officer of Canadian Tire Corp. Ltd..

William Henry Moore

At various times in his life, he was a director of Massey-Harris Co. Ltd., Canadian Colonial Airways Ltd., and Brazean Colliers Ltd.


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