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Polaroid lawsuit accuses GoPro of copying camera model

GoPro's new camera looks a lot like Polaroid's, according to a lawsuit.

Polaroid hit the wearable camera maker with a copyright infringement lawsuit that was filed Tuesday in New Jersey's U.S. District Court.

C&A Marketing, the manufacturer and marketer behind Polaroid, accused GoPro of copying the model of its Polaroid Cube.

The Cube is a point-of-view action camera that retails for about $100. It was released in January 2014 by the New Jersey-based Polaroid.

C&A Marketing wants the court to award it all of GoPro's sales profits, along with interest and compensation for legal fees.

The GoPro Hero4 Session camera was released in July 2015 -- roughly 18 months after Polaroid released its cube-shaped camera.

C&A Marketing pointed out in the lawsuit that the Hero4 Session differed greatly from its former models, which were not cube-shaped.

The suit comes after GoPro recently cut the price of its Hero4 Session camera from around $400 to roughly $300.

And the company's shares dropped by 16% just last week, their lowest level since GoPro went public in June 2014.

GoPro has yet to issue a statement about the suit.

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