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30 Sep 2002
A new law passed in the state of California bans unwanted and unsolicited commercial text messages to owners of mobile phones, pagers and personal digital assistants (PDAs). The law is intended to “curtail unsolicited advertising before the practice...
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30 Sep 2002
The European Commission has issued a proposal for a Directive on the re-use and commercial exploitation of public documents. The proposed Directive aims to set a minimum set of rules governing the commercial and non commercial exploitation “of existing...
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30 Sep 2002
The European Commission has decided that the creation of a central patent court is the most effective way to ensure unity and consistency in dealing with community patent disputes, according to Euromoney’s Legal Media Group. The Commission’s...
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30 Sep 2002
Vivendi Universal’s music division is being sued by US technology company DownloadCard over alleged infringement of proprietary technology and theft of trade secrets. The lawsuit, filed in a district court in Manhattan, followed the label’s...
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27 Sep 2002
The Organisation for Internet Safety (OIS), an alliance of eleven software companies, researchers and consultancies, yesterday announced its formation. The group said that its purpose is to “make it easier for security researchers and vendors to...
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27 Sep 2002
Mike Batt, a former member of British pop group The Wombles, has paid an undisclosed six-figure sum to the John Cage Trust following a dispute over Batt’s use of a John Cage composition called 4’33 which consisted of 4 minutes and 33 seconds...
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27 Sep 2002
Creditors of Napster are likely to challenge German media giant Bertelsmann’s position as a secured creditor in any sale of the bankrupt file-swapping service’s assets, according to Reuters.
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27 Sep 2002
Freeserve has won a small victory in its battle against a Customs and Excise’s decision not to charge Value Added Tax on the money that US-based AOL Time Warner receives from its UK internet service. A London High Court judge on Wednesday ruled...
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26 Sep 2002
The US government has threatened to impose sanctions on Nigeria if the country does not take measures against financial fraud schemes, known as the Nigerian e-mail scam, according to CW360. The scam, also referred to as ‘419’, after the relevant...
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26 Sep 2002
The use of live customer data for testing applications is practiced by 42% of IT departments, according to a new survey commissioned by software tools company Compuware and carried out by research-based marketing consultancy Vanson Bourne. The majority...
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