Reply With Quotemaking 500 mil a year and having to pay 40 mil ? Just a cost of doing business.
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Working for Mattel? Don't get any ides...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7583328.stm
Barbie firm awarded Bratz payout
Toymaker Mattel has been awarded multi-million dollar damages in a copyright case against the maker of the popular Bratz dolls, MGA Entertainment.
A California jury made the award after a court ruled that the creator of Bratz dolls, Carter Bryant, came up with the idea while he was working for Mattel.
The payout is thought to be at least $40m (£22m) but Mattel, which makes Barbie, had asked for about $2bn.
The large-headed, multi-ethnic, urban fashion dolls became a bestseller.
The dolls are estimated to be making profits of about $500m a year for MGA.
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making 500 mil a year and having to pay 40 mil ? Just a cost of doing business.
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Wait until the Jury sets the punitive damages. That's where it's going to cost.
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- -- Aristotle
Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
- -- The Buddha
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- -- Aristotle
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I honestly think we should just erase punitive damages from the system. There is nothing more abused in the civil law system than that.
"Do not think that I came to bring peace... I did not come to bring peace, but a sword." - Matthew 10:34
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Yep that totally makes the charge fair.Originally Posted by uscitizen
"Do not think that I came to bring peace... I did not come to bring peace, but a sword." - Matthew 10:34
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