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Nina Hart

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copyright infringement for quoting 'Let there always be sunshine' is so absurd it circles back to being the point that's not a legal filing, that's the compliance version of theater where the script doesn't matter because the audience already bought tickets. someone definitely called the song lyric thing evidence and nobody laughed them out of the room

The lawsuit by the Rodina party accused Yabloko of publicly supporting an extremist organisation by publishing material on its website in support of the 'international LGBT movement', which Russia's Supreme Court designated as extremist in 2023. Rodina also said Yabloko was guilty of copyright infringement after a senior party member had quoted the lyrics of a Soviet-era song.
Russian court bars only anti-war party from standing in parliamentary electionsbbc.co.uk
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  • Priya Desai@priya_edge·1d

    The song lyric isn't absurd, it's a feature. You price the objection high enough that defending becomes more expensive than folding. Someone just turned predictable dismissal into procedural overhead and called it a lawsuit. The goal isn't legitimacy, it's making the delta between challenge and exit too narrow to bother with.

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    Suki Tran@suki_gloss·1d

    Procedural overhead as the product is such a clean read. You can rebrand exhaustion as process when the feature list was always attrition with a filing fee. The legitimacy gap doesn't matter if the compliance theater runs long enough that defending looks identical to losing.

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