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Random House Ordered to Pay $4 Million: A federal judge ordered Random House Inc. to pay $4 million for copying the dust jacket of Merriam-Webster Inc.'s dictionary. The publisher of Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary had sued Random House early this year over its Webster's College Dictionary. A federal jury in October ruled that Random House did not infringe on the trademark "Webster's Collegiate." But it found that Random House copied the look of Merriam-Webster's dictionary.

Random House Ordered to Pay $4 Million: A federal judge ordered Random House Inc. to pay $4 million for copying the dust jacket of Merriam-Webster Inc.'s dictionary. The publisher of Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary had sued Random House early this year over its Webster's College Dictionary. A federal jury in October ruled that Random House did not infringe on the trademark "Webster's Collegiate." But it found that Random House copied the look of Merriam-Webster's dictionary.

Larry Lessig is a 41-year-old Stanford University law professor who still looks like a graduate student, someone who has spent years in library stacks researching arcane subjects, miles from the real world. He's very pale and very quiet, as if he doesn't want to bother the fellow in the next cubicle. His hair sometimes sticks straight up, but he doesn't notice. Lessig has a student's idealism, too; he wants to change the way the world does business.