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09 May 2000
A district judge in California has rejected a request by Napster, the internet song-swap service, to have a major copyright infringement lawsuit against it thrown out.
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09 May 2000
Microsoft has made a small advance in its long-running case against Sun Microsystems. Late yesterday, US District Judge Ronald Whyte accepted Microsoft’s request for summary judgement, dismissing Sun’s claims of copyright infringement. However,...
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08 May 2000
A 27 year old bank worker, Reomel Ramones, has today been arrested by the Philippine National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) in connection with the Love Bug computer virus. His 23 year old girlfriend, Irene de Guzman, is expected to turn herself in later...
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08 May 2000
The judge behind the decision of a US court that MP3.com, the internet music service, violated the copyrights of five major music labels, has made it clear that his decision was a simple one.
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08 May 2000
The UK Government is introducing measures to give part-time employees the right not to be treated less favourably than full-timers. The regulations, subject to Parliamentary approval, will come into force on 1st July 2000 and cover pay, pensions, training...
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08 May 2000
24/7 Media, the internet advertising network, is suing DoubleClick, its rival on-line advertiser, for patent infringement. The action, brought in a New York District Court, seeks damages and an order against further infringement.
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08 May 2000
Police in Manila believe they have identified the author of the Love Bug virus which is claimed to have reached 45 million users and corrupted over 3 million files worldwide to date. The author used the name "Spyder" in the code of the virus.
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08 May 2000
The E-commerce Directive has been approved and passed by the European Parliament in record time, making way for it to become law throughout the EU within an 18 month period expiring on 17th January 2002.
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08 May 2000
A dispute settlement mechanism is being set up specifically tailored to the needs of the application service provider (ASP) industry. The announcement came from the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) and ASPIC, the ASP industry consortium....
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05 May 2000
It has been reported that lawyers for the Microsoft Corporation may ask a federal judge to throw out the Justice Department's plan to break up the company by arguing that the US government improperly based its proposal on evidence that had not been presented...
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