intellectual
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Professor Emily Hudson, intellectual property specialist at Oxford University, says copyright laws in the UK are different to those in the US.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
The Year 8 student from Western Australia has Down Syndrome – a genetic condition caused by an extra copy of chromosome 21 which leads to physical and intellectual disabilities.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Disney also unveiled a new partnership with TikTok Wednesday that will allow users of the social-video platform to create content from Disney’s library of franchises and intellectual property.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
He also noted that Churchill Downs made an $85-million offer this spring to purchase the intellectual property rights to the Preakness, but the state of Maryland matched it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
On the Continent resistance to Newtonianism continued into the 1740s and involved key intellectual figures such as Huygens, Leibniz and Fontenelle.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
In 1993 Hutu intellectuals at the National University of Rwanda accused the Tutsi-associated Rwandan Patriotic Front of genocide.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Otero Alcantara, a self-taught performance artist, sculptor and painter, rose to prominence in 2020 as leader of the San Isidro protest movement of artists and intellectuals.
From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026
Hundreds of intellectuals and others have signed letters and online petitions expressing fears of a disastrous denouement: the collection’s prolonged — and possible permanent — absence from Mexico.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
Instead, she places Black Americans, Black intellectuals, and Black constitutional struggle where they have always belonged: at the center of the 14th Amendment.
From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2026
So in 1649, when Queen Christina of Sweden invited him to join the circle of intellectuals that she was gathering in Stockholm, Descartes leaped at the chance.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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