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13 Jan 2012
OPINION: People have sold their unwanted second hand records and CDs for years and one US company is facing a lawsuit for helping its users do the same with their digital music files. So would it be legal in the UK? The answer is a fairly emphatic 'no'....
12 Jan 2012
The European Commission will clarify the procedures for taking down and blocking access to illegal content after complaints that the rules were unclear and resulted in illegal content staying online for too long, it has said.
The organisation that oversees the addressing system for websites will consider applications for new domains submitted from today.
11 Jan 2012
A plan for an EU-wide patent could lead to inconsistent decisions and high legal costs, a committee of MPs has warned.
A Finnish internet service provider (ISP) has been ordered to block access to a web address which points to the website of a digital rights campaign group.
10 Jan 2012
The UK public is being urged to upload works of parody to a new website in order to demonstrate the need for a change to UK copyright laws.
A domain name registrar was not liable for a form of trade mark infringement when a system it operates was used to redirect visitors from allegedly 'cybersquatting' web domain names to a pornographic website, a US court has ruled.
06 Jan 2012
The Canadian Patent Office has granted online retail giant Amazon a patent for a 'one-click' payment method for processing transactions, according to reports.
05 Jan 2012
A computerised method of processing images and categorising features within it into database-searchable words is not excluded from patentability, a hearing officer at the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has ruled.
Creative industry representatives have been asked to give their views on whether the UK's current copyright licensing system is fit for the digital age.