Sentence examples for counterfeit act from inspiring English sources

As early as 2010, Swartz emailed Patrick Ruffini, a veteran of online organizing for right-leaning causes, to ask whether he was interested in working together to fight an early iteration of the legislation, the "Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeit Act," which powerful Hollywood lobbyists and their allies on both sides of the aisle were then pushing through the Senate.

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The new seizures also come as a new bill, the Combating Online Infringements and Counterfeits Act, is making its way through Congress.

The Royal Mint says: "Under the Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981 it is an offence to knowingly pass on a counterfeit £1 coin".

"Ms Moran also faces six charges of forgery, contrary to the Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981, where it is alleged that she submitted forged invoices in support of some of her claims," he said.

Stuart Jones, the son of JJB Sports' former executive chairman, who was the firm's head of marketing, is charged with aiding and abetting the use of a false instrument, contrary to the Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981.

The Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act, or Coica, a bill that would give the United States attorney general additional powers to pursue infringing Web sites, stalled in Congress last year, but a modified version of it, the Protect IP Act, has passed the Senate Judiciary Committee and is awaiting a vote.

The move has drawn criticism among many bloggers and Web advocates who see it as a preview of a controversial bill in Congress, the Combating Online Infringements and Counterfeits Act, which would extend the attorney general's power in pursuing Web sites believed to be "dedicated to infringing activities".

Legal experts say it could fall foul of the Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981, which states that "a person is guilty of forgery if he makes a false instrument, with the intention that he or another shall use it to induce somebody to accept it as genuine, and by reason of so accepting it to do or not to do some act to his own or any other person's prejudice".

The original Status Quo drummer John Coghlan has performed with Quo tribute act Counterfeit Quo.

In Britain at the time, counterfeiting was a treasonable act, punishable by death.