intellectual property

News about intellectual property

Article | 16/05/2013 Advocates call for legal protections for copyright consumers
The U.S. Congress should consider a "safe harbor" from legal action for consumers using works protected by copyright as it launches a long-term effort...
Article | 16/05/2013 German case on embedding YouTube videos referred to EU court
Embedded YouTube videos don't infringe copyright under current German law, but they could violate European rules, the German Federal Court of Justice ...
Article | 16/05/2013 Copyright owners denied class status in YouTube suit
A federal court in New York has denied class certification to copyright owners in an infringement lawsuit against YouTube over unauthorized hosting of...
Article | 15/05/2013 Specter of ACTA hangs over TTIP negotiations
European civil liberties representatives on Wednesday advised the European Commission's trade department that the intellectual property chapter should...
Article | 13/05/2013 France should soften Internet 'three strikes' law, says gov't report
France should stop cutting off the Internet access of those accused of illicit file sharing, and close down the agency that polices online copyright b...

Features about intellectual property

Article | 19/02/2013 The Pirate Bay's Peter Sunde: 'They can't take my soul'
We are standing in a parking lot in the city of Malmö, southern Sweden, one of the many places Peter Sunde now calls home. The sky above us is grey, a...
Article | 21/12/2012 Patent cases color mobile market, to continue in 2013
Over the past year, patent battles have been fought by tech companies in courtrooms all over the world. The litigation is far from over though, howeve...
Article | 12/12/2012 2012: The year in quotes
Some of the most memorable IT-related quotes were uttered in courtrooms this year, which involved a steady stream of legal challenges about intellectu...
Article | 7/11/2012 What Obama's re-election may mean for technology
The US presidential election result leaves President Barack Obama in the White House and maintains the balance of power in Congress. In many longstand...
Article | 6/10/2011 Apple and Samsung: What's behind the patent fight
Samsung took a step toward finding a kind of "pax tabletica" with arch-foe Apple in an Australian court last week, offering to remove features from it...