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Article | 20/12/2012 European Commission drops court challenge of ACTA legality
The European Commission has finally killed the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) by withdrawing its bid to have the treaty's le...
Article | 18/12/2012 Google scores another book-scanning win in deal with Japanese writer group
Google has signed a legal peace treaty with a major Japanese writers' group over the company's book-scanning project, the latest in a string of global...
Article | 13/12/2012 Belgian news publishers settle copyright dispute with Google
Belgian French-language news publishers settled a copyright dispute with Google, agreeing to promote each others services while Google will pay all le...
Article | 10/12/2012 Top 10 tech stories of 2012: a busted IPO, spotlight on workers, titans in transition
Change in any industry involves conflict. Evolution and revolution in tech this year took place not only in the marketplace but also in the courtroom,...
Article | 7/12/2012 Pirate Bay co-founder's detention restrictions eased
Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg's remains in a Swedish jail but is no longer detained with restrictions and can communicate with others...
Article | 6/12/2012 Megaupload's Dotcom allowed to seek damages against NZ spy agency
New Zealand's High Court ruled Wednesday that Kim Dotcom and a Megaupload colleague can pursue damages against police and one of the country's spy ser...
Article | 29/11/2012 German parliament to discuss controversial online copyright bill
The German parliament is set to discuss a controversial online copyright bill that is meant to allow news publishers to charge search engines such as ...
Article | 29/11/2012 UK man settles with US over TVShack.net copyright charges
A British man has struck a deal to avoid extradition to the U.S. on copyright infringement charges for creating a website that directed users to popul...
Article | 21/11/2012 Hardware vendors sue Dutch government over copyright levies
Hewlett-Packard, Acer, Dell and Imation are suing the Dutch government over new levies on hard disks, smartphones, tablets and MP3 players that are me...
Article | 19/11/2012 US lawmaker asks Reddit for ideas on website seizures
A U.S. lawmaker has asked users of Reddit for their ideas about legislation to address the controversial recent practice by two U.S. agencies of seizi...
Article | 16/11/2012 Parents not liable for their son's illegal music sharing, German court rules
A German couple are not liable for the filesharing activities of their 13-year old son because they told him unauthorized downloading and sharing of c...
Article | 12/11/2012 Pirate Bay co-founder now suspected of serious fraud and another data intrusion
Swedish authorities now suspects Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg of serious fraud and another data intrusion in addition to the alleged ...
Article | 9/11/2012 Michigan man charged with selling counterfeit Microsoft software
A man from Michigan was arraigned in a U.S. federal court on Thursday on charges of mail fraud and selling counterfeit software worth over US$1.2 mill...
Article | 5/11/2012 Twitter leaves placeholder message for copyright violations
Under a new policy, Twitter will leave a placeholder message when it removes content resulting from a complaint by a copyright holder.
Article | 1/11/2012 With bombast and flair, Megaupload's successor appears
With characteristic bombast, Kim Dotcom unveiled a splash page on Thursday for his Mega file-sharing service, a successor to the imperiled Megaupload ...