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UK court awards Bitcoin creator default judgment in Bitcoin copyright infringement claim

News Team, 05/07/2021

London’s High Court today granted law firm ONTIER UK's client and Bitcoin creator, Dr Craig Wright, default judgment in his copyright infringement action against ‘Cøbra’, the pseudonymous operator and publisher of the bitcoin.org website.

The bitcoin.org website, which promotes the digital asset referred to as ‘Bitcoin Core’, is hosting and publishing a copy of Dr Wright’s academic White Paper “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System”, without Dr Wright’s consent. 

Dr Wright owns the copyright to the White Paper, which he authored and first released in October 2008 under the now-f...


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