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...Kodak was ordered last October to pay $900 million for infringing on seven Polaroid instant-photography patents. In a $100 million trademark suit, Mirage Studios, creator of the hugely popular Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles characters, is demanding that AT&T refrain from using such terms as turtle power and cowabunga in a 900-number telephone service for kids. In a far- reaching copyright case, book publishers scored an important victory in March when a federal court in New York City fined the Kinko's Graphics national chain of copying stores $510,000 for illegally photocopying and selling excerpts of books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Creativity: Whose Bright Idea? | 6/10/1991 | See Source »

...youth corps called the Planeteers valiantly fight villainous polluters like Dr. & Blight. The back cover of one issue of P3 (for Earth, the third planet from the sun), a glitzy new environmental magazine for kids, shows a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle shouting to readers, "Hey, dudes! Earth is a cowabunga planet! Let's keep it radical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Endangered Earth Update the Ecokid Corps | 12/24/1990 | See Source »

...discipline; nothing to either side, nothing above or behind, or, more important, nothing blocking the path ahead. On water, even the sixth panel -- solid earth underfoot -- is gone. Michel, savoring these selected uncertainties, asked Janis to name their boat. She reached into her past and chose a surfing cry: Cowabunga...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Florida: Everyman's Dream | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

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