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...jury decided Disney must pay $240 million to two plaintiffs...
...stealing their sports-complex idea b) Goofy's mistakes c) burns caused by hot Disney coffee...
...concept for Cyveillance, a sort of dotcom Web sleuth founded in 1997, which uses its proprietary NetSapien Technology to scour the Net for misuse of brand names, copyright infringements and clues as to what impact Web activity is having on a corporation's business. Some Cyveillance findings: Disney and Barbie are among the Top 10 brand names most commonly associated with pornography on the Internet, an abuse of their trademarks; and 4% to 8% of the 7,000 websites selling Rolex watches, Montblanc products and Gucci items actually sold fakes. Now the company has branched out into e-business intelligence...
Enter Irwin Jacobs, the Minneapolis-based financier whose takeover antics in the 1980s struck fear into the hearts of companies like ITT and Disney. Jacobs, a reformed predator, now runs Genmar Holdings, a remnant of his buccaneering days and a company whose principal business is building pleasure boats. Boatbuilding is messy, environmentally hazardous and so unpleasant a job that Genmar has a hard time getting workers to do it. Pyramid built a few test hulls for Genmar, but Kirila's system wasn't refined enough for Jacobs' engineers. "They were 90% there, and we needed 100%," says Jacobs...
...Performances are excellent across the board, with Thomas H. Price '02 playing a convincingly slimy bad guy (note the lower class English accent...maybe this is Disney after all), and perfectly understated acting by the young Eoin Gaj in his role as Mrs. Hapgood's preppy son. Tremendous credit is also due to director Nicholas R. Parrillo '00, who seems to have a gift for quietly taking student theater to a truly professional level...