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Article | 9/11/2009 Norwegian ISP doesn't have to block Pirate Bay, says court
Norwegian ISP Telenor doesn't have to block access to file-sharing site The Pirate Bay, according to a ruling from the district court for Asker and Bæ...
Article | 30/10/2009 Pirate Bay founders threatened with fine if site stays open
File-sharing site The Pirate Bay should be closed, and if it isn't, two of the founders will each have to pay a fine of 500,000 Swedish kronor (US$71,...
Article | 20/10/2009 EU says Europe must scan books as does Google
The European Commission issued a call to arms to European lawmakers and those involved in the process of digitizing books Monday, urging the European ...
Article | 20/10/2009 Pirate Bay appeals postponed until next year
The appeals of those convicted in April in the high-profile Pirate Bay copyright violations trial won't be heard until next year, the court said on Mo...
Article | 7/10/2009 iiNet: AFACT’s 94,942 figure artificially inflated
Legal representatives for Internet Service Provider, iiNet, have claimed copyright infringement figures presented to the Federal Court of Australia by...
Article | 8/10/2009 Google, authors and publishers get a month to fix settlement
Google, the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers (AAP) have been given one more month to rework their agreement to settle copyrigh...
Article | 30/09/2009 AFACT 'goes for the throat' in iiNet case
The Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) has dropped another legal claim against iiNet six days before its Federal Court trial in a b...
Article | 21/09/2009 DOJ: Court should reject Google book search settlement
The U.S. Department of Justice has come out against the proposed agreement to settle copyright lawsuits that authors and major publishers filed agains...
Article | 14/09/2009 Twitter: Your 'tweets' belong to you
Twitter has modified the terms of service that govern the proper user of the microblogging and social-networking site to state unequivocally that mess...
Article | 11/09/2009 Official: Book settlement makes 'mockery' of copyright law
Google's proposed book settlement with book authors and publishers, allowing the company to digitize and sell millions of books, makes a "mockery" of ...
Article | 4/09/2009 Supporters press for Google Books settlement
A proposed settlement between Google and book publishers and authors will give huge new advantages to students, minorities and disabled people, suppor...
Article | 13/08/2009 Judge rules against RealDVD movie copying software
RealNetworks may have lost its bid to sell software that lets people copy DVD movies to their computer hard drive after a ruling on Tuesday.
Article | 3/08/2009 Tenenbaum hit with $675,000 fine for music piracy
In another big victory for the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) a federal jury has fined Boston University student Joel Tenenbaum $675...
Article | 16/07/2009 UK National Portrait Gallery in legal fight with Wikipedia
The National Portrait Gallery has set off a legal fight against Wikipedia.
Article | 10/07/2009 EC's Reding calls for shake-up of online copyright laws
European laws governing the digitization of content such as books, movies and music need a major re-working in order to keep Europe relevant in the di...