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Online auction giant eBay Inc.'s $1.9 billion deal to sell Skype is bound to get thorny after Skype's founders filed a copyright lawsuit against eBay and the private equity firms planning to buy the Internet-calling business.

Joltid Ltd., a company owned by entrepreneurs Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Northern California on Wednesday. The suit alleges that eBay and Skype's new investors, Index Ventures, Silver Lake Partners, Andreessen & Horowitz and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, are in violation of copyright law. They seek damages that could total more than $75 million for each day they operate Skype.



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