Two shops busted for selling pirated Atlas books

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Pettah Police seized two whole sale shops selling Atlas pirated books, abusing the Atlas trademark and brand name, the leading stationery manufacturer announced. The seizure was undertaken through a warrant issued by the Colombo Magistrate Courts.

Atlas, recently obtained the exclusive licence to publish images of several popular children’s cartoon characters and superheroes on its range of stationery products including images of Marvel Superheroes, Wolverine, Thor, Iron Man the First Avenger and the ever popular Spiderman.

The company also obtained rights for the Ben 10 range of images including Ben 10, Ben 10 Alien Force and Ben 10 Ultimate, as well as children’s cartoon The Power puff Girls.