{"id":34554,"date":"2020-02-28T15:11:22","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T15:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=34554"},"modified":"2020-02-28T15:11:22","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T15:11:22","slug":"seven-years-on-laser-designer-bruce-kirby-wins-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2020\/02\/seven-years-on-laser-designer-bruce-kirby-wins-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven Years On, Laser Designer Bruce Kirby Wins Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has taken seven years in a long legal battle to prove that the builder of Lasers has infringed on Bruce Kirby&#8217;s name for commercial benefit. For over two years the company sold the boats without paying royalties to the designer. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whipgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Kirby-Jury-Verdict.pdf\">jury<\/a> of his peers awarded Mr. Kirby more than $6 million. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whipgroup.com\/blog\/whipgroup-obtains-6800000-willful-infringement-jury-verdict-on-behalf-of-legendary-designer-of-laser-sailboat\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has taken seven years in a long legal battle to prove that the builder of Lasers has infringed on Bruce Kirby&#8217;s name for commercial benefit. For over two years the company sold the boats without paying royalties to the designer. A jury of his peers awarded Mr. Kirby more than $6 million. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":34534,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34554"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34555,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34554\/revisions\/34555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}