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20 Dec 2011
EU ministers have given their backing to a controversial international intellectual property (IP) rights treaty paving the way for representatives of the trading bloc to sign the agreement.
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20 Dec 2011
The Irish data protection watchdog has ordered the country's largest internet service provider (ISP) to stop using its 'three strikes' system for identifying and warning alleged illegal file-sharers, according to media reports.
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20 Dec 2011
Information society service providers are not obliged to monitor users' activity in order to identify and prevent copyright infringement because such a requirement would lead to the invasion of users' privacy, an Italian court has ruled.
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19 Dec 2011
Sky has blocked access to a copyright infringing website following a UK court order, the company has said.
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16 Dec 2011
Databases of football fixture lists are not protected by EU database copyright laws because the creation of the fixtures themselves is not part of what the EU law protects, an advisor to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has said.
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15 Dec 2011
The Government has proposed legalising the creation mp3 copies of CDs for use on an mp3 player, 'data mining' for non-commercial use and allowing for the licensing of material where the copyright holder cannot be traced in proposals to "modernise" copyright...
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12 Dec 2011
The UK Government has appointed an intellectual property (IP) expert to provide advice about the enforcement of IP rights to companies looking to do business in China, it has announced.
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07 Dec 2011
Advertising networks can be found liable for contributing to copyright infringement on websites if they facilitate that infringement, a US court has suggested. It ruled that the ad network in question was not liable, but suggested that others could be...
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01 Dec 2011
Counterfeit goods in transit between non-EU countries cannot be seized by customs authorities in the EU unless there are at least grounds to suspect that the goods will later be sold in the EU, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled.
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01 Dec 2011
A computer program does not infringe the copyright of another one just because it performs the same function as it, but it could do if it copies the means by which the other program works, an advisor to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has said.
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