Sentence examples for unauthorized imitation from inspiring English sources
Guthy-Renker claimed National Media Corp. excessively aired infomercials for an exercise machine, the Fitness Flyer, and started selling an unauthorized imitation of the original.
Grampa is hassled twice by lawyers representing the estates of deceased entertainers: the first time representing Charlie Chaplin, for his "unauthorized imitation" of the bread roll dancing scene from the 1925 silent film The Gold Rush (which is in the public domain, despite intervention by the lawyers), and the second time he is approached by them is after imitating Jimmy Durante.
Tommy Hilfiger's licensing unit contends in the suit that Goody's stores infringe its logo by selling clothing with unauthorized imitations of the company's flag trademark.
By 1980 Rubik's Cube was marketed throughout the world, and over 100 million authorized units, with an estimated 50 million unauthorized imitations, were sold, mostly during its subsequent three years of popularity.
The American Heritage dictionary defines plagiarism as: "the unauthorized use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one's own original work".
In 1969, they registered the name with the state's patent office, and when it started popping up in imitation recipes in unauthorized cookbooks, they went to court, winning a case against a local author in 1982.
China has a world-leading knack for churning out copies and counterfeits, and the release of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" last month prompted a surge of peculiarly Chinese imitations as well as a quickie unauthorized translation.
But imitation soon gave way to more inventive forms of theft: "Get Ur Freak On," in particular, lived on in an endless series of unauthorized remixes from around the world.
Success always breeds imitation.
