The AP complaint asserted that AHN reporters had copied facts from AP news reports without paying a syndication fee.

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Some students criticized the Napster service, which uses copy-protection software to prevent files from being copied to more than three computers or burned to a CD without paying the 99-cent fee.

Arkwright-type mills were so successful that sometimes they were copied without paying royalties to Richard Arkwright.