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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...
Article | 10/05/2013 Appeals court ruling could be 'death' of software patents
A U.S. appeals court has ruled that an abstract idea is not patentable simply because it is tied to a computer system, signaling what one judge descri...
Article | 7/05/2013 Megaupload's lawyers: DOJ's charges have no basis in law
The U.S. Department of Justice's copyright infringement case against file storage service Megaupload is "prosecutorial overreach" based on a misreadin...
Article | 7/05/2013 Operator of German file-sharing site sentenced to almost four years in prison
A 33-year-old man was sentenced to three years and 10 months in prison by a German court for running the torrent site torrent.to between December 2005...
Article | 6/05/2013 EU says Motorola abused its position by seeking and enforcing injunction against Apple
Motorola Mobility abuses its dominant position in the E.U. by seeking and enforcing an injunction against Apple in Germany on the basis of its mobile ...
Article | 3/05/2013 Facebook gets to keep its 'Timeline' following trademark settlement
Facebook has reached an agreement with the company Timelines Inc. to settle a trademark infringement lawsuit over the social network's use of the name...
Article | 2/05/2013 P2P piracy putting pressure on Chinese video sites
After spending millions to buy licensed TV shows and movies, China's top online video site is facing a surge in piracy from a new crop of offenders th...
Article | 1/05/2013 SAP loses bid to overturn $US345 million patent judgment
An appeals court has rejected SAP's attempt to overturn a US$345 million judgment awarded to Versata Software, which had brought a patent-infringement...
Article | 1/05/2013 Senator introduces legislation targeting patent trolls
A U.S. senator has introduced legislation allowing the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to review and invalidate controversial patents challenged by t...
Article | 1/05/2013 Belgian ISPs sued for providing Internet access without paying copyright levies
Sabam, the Belgian association of authors, composers and publishers, has sued the country's three biggest ISPs, saying that they should be paying copy...
Article | 26/04/2013 Microsoft prevails in Xbox patent rift with Motorola Mobility
A US judge has ruled that Motorola Mobility is entitled to substantially less royalties than it wanted from Microsoft for the company's use of wirele...