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Article | 7/09/2010 Secret copyright treaty draft leaked after Washington talks
Another round of negotiations, another leak: Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) published what it says is the latest draft of the secret Anti-Count...
Article | 14/08/2010 Google calls Oracle lawsuit 'baseless,' vows to fight it
Google will put up a fight in response to the patent- and copyright-infringement lawsuit that Oracle filed over the use of Java in the Android mobile ...
Article | 11/08/2010 Linux Foundation offers open source compliance checklist
Organizations that are interested in using open source in their own products but are wary of intellectual property issues might want to examine a new,...
Article | 7/08/2010 Time to give up on The Beatles on iTunes
If there was any hope left that The Beatles' music would appear on iTunes in this lifetime, Yoko Ono just killed it.
Article | 28/07/2010 Why not to jailbreak the iPhone
The United States Copyright Office ruled that jailbreaking an iPhone is not a copyright violation under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA). Be...
Article | 21/07/2010 Hollywood pushes movie streaming standard, UltraViolet
The Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE), a group of 58 Hollywood studios and technology companies, is pinning its hopes for the future of e...
Article | 20/07/2010 Judge refuses to force Dutch ISP to block Pirate Bay
Dutch anti-piracy foundation Brein has failed in its attempt to force Dutch ISP Ziggo to block access to The Pirate Bay. The famous torrent site will ...
Article | 17/07/2010 Disagreements on transparency fail to stop ACTA treaty leak
Disagreements between the European Union and the US over whether to release the current negotiating text of a secretive international copyright treaty...
Article | 15/07/2010 UK royalty society suggests ISPs pay for pirated music
A U.K. music royalty collection society has suggested charging ISPs for pirated content traded on their networks, as the organization claims piracy wi...
Article | 10/07/2010 Judge cuts file-sharing fine to $67,500
Even after cutting a damages award in a file-sharing case to one-tenth the original sum, a judge said Friday the new fine was still excessive.
Article | 24/06/2010 Judge rules in favor of YouTube over Viacom
Viacom's US$1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit against Google's video-sharing site YouTube has been dismissed by the court, ending for now an ac...
Article | 26/05/2010 US copyright official discounts ACTA concerns
U.S. copyright official Steven Tepp said Tuesday he doesn't understand many of the current objections to the proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreem...
Article | 20/05/2010 US lawmakers target The Pirate Bay, other sites
The Congressional International Anti-Piracy Caucus, a group of U.S. lawmakers concerned with copyright infringement, has listed The Pirate Bay and fiv...
Article | 17/05/2010 iiNet confident of Federal Court reaffirming copyright judgement
iiNet is convinced the Federal Court will reaffirm and strengthen its earlier copyright judgement which cleared the company of copyright breaches.
Article | 13/05/2010 Pirate Bay appeal judges are not biased, says Swedish Court
Sweden's Supreme Court has found that two of the judges scheduled to hear an appeal in the Pirate Bay case are unbiased, it ruled Wednesday.