The two factors most closely associated with higher liability costs are the number of lawyers and whether the country has a common-law system like the U.S., where judges decide much of the law governing liability or a civil law tradition, where the rules are set down in a relatively unchanging civil code.

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Copyright infringement is a serious matter that violates U.S. copyright law and subjects infringers to criminal and civil liability.

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The question of product liability would be best left to civil law.

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They are irrelevant as to the issues under discussion, they violate basic and well established principles of law, they are arbitrary, capricious, biased and discriminatory and give rise to both civil and criminal liability, not only against the IOC as a sporting governing body, but also against certain individuals of the Movement.

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