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News: Apple Faces Suit Over Mussolini On iPhone

February 5th, 2010 by Terri Mock

Italy’s state-owned film company says it will file suit over Apple’s use of recorded speeches and video of Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini.

The film archive is managed by Cinecitta Luce, which alleges the material played from an Apple iPhone application had been copied from a DVD without permission and was placed for sale on Apple’s online store ”with flagrant disregard for international copyright laws,” ANSA reported Wednesday.

Calls of outrage from Jewish groups and other iPhone users allegedly prompted Apple’s iMussolini compilation of more than 100 audio and film clips of il Duce to be removed from the iTunes store.

For full article, please see Post Chronicle

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