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#cockygate is a hashtag created when a romance author named Faleena Hopkins wanted to stop her competition by suing them and trademarking the word cocky. It ended up blowing up in her face and exposed a bunch of other scams in the self publishing world.
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So that's yet another entry in the long list of people who have played stupid games and won stupid prizes over copyright. See also: that time Games Workshop tried to trademark "Space Marine" and sue everyone who used it no matter what; that total moron who sued J.K Rowling over the word "Muggle"; Lars Ulrich making an ass of himself over Napster.