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Article | 6/04/2011 More foreign brands use China's Taobao for e-commerce
More foreign brands like Adidas and Gap are expanding their reach into China's market by tapping the user base of the country's largest online retaile...
Article | 1/04/2011 China's Baidu to compensate songwriters for music downloads
China's largest search engine Baidu said it will start paying an agency representing songwriters for every music download on the site, after years of ...
Article | 31/03/2011 Baidu's online library shrinks following piracy cleanup
China's largest search engine Baidu is deleting millions of documents from its online library platform, in response to growing criticism from a group ...
Article | 30/03/2011 Nokia files another ITC complaint against Apple in US
Nokia has filed a new round of complaints against Apple with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) and with a Delaware court, the Finnish phon...
Article | 27/03/2011 RIAA thinks LimeWire owes $75 trillion in damages
The music industry wants LimeWire to pay up to US$75 trillion in damages after losing a copyright infringement claim. That's right . . . $75 trillion....
Article | 26/03/2011 Trade commission revives Kodak complaint against Apple, RIM
Apple received good and bad news from the U.S. International Trade Commission on Friday.
Article | 23/03/2011 Google Books settlement proposal rejected
A proposed agreement drafted by Google, authors and publishers to settle their yearslong copyright litigation has been rejected, a major setback to Go...
Article | 22/03/2011 Microsoft sues Barnes & Noble over Android
Microsoft has filed a patent lawsuit against bookseller Barnes & Noble, accusing the company of running infringing software on its Android-based N...
Article | 22/03/2011 Man who stole Goldman Sachs code gets 8-year sentence
A former Goldman Sachs computer programmer has received a stiff prison sentence for stealing source code used in the company's high-frequency trading ...
Article | 18/03/2011 Android violates Linux license, experts claim
Google's Android mobile operating system's usage of the Linux kernel may violate open source licensing with a misappropriation of Linux code that coul...
Article | 17/03/2011 Baidu's online library accused of piracy by Chinese authors
An online library operated by Chinese search engine giant Baidu is drawing criticism that its becoming the next online hotbed for pirated works.
Article | 12/03/2011 Google, Amazon face lawsuits over search
Software development company MasterObjects sued Amazon and Google this week, charging the companies with infringing on a patent for technology that pr...
Article | 10/03/2011 Senate passes patent bill, but kills limits on damages
The U.S. Senate has passed an overhaul of the U.S. patent system, but has removed some controversial provisions limiting damage awards in infringement...
Article | 9/03/2011 Defense contractor charged with stealing secrets on laptop
A former engineer with U.S. military contractor L-3 Communications is facing as much as 20 years in prison on charges that he illegally exported milit...
Article | 8/03/2011 Customer sues Infor after ERP license audit
A New York manufacturer is suing ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendor Infor following a dispute over whether it should have to pay nearly US$150,...