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31 Jan 2003
The district government of Dusseldorf county in Germany has passed regulations requiring more than 80 ISPs to filter web content and block access to certain foreign web sites, according to a German campaign group.
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31 Jan 2003
Microsoft has agreed to make "radical changes" to its .Net Passport on-line authentication system, to avoid sanctions for violating European data protection legislation, according to an announcement yesterday by EU privacy regulators.
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31 Jan 2003
US-based Mattel, maker of Barbie, has lost its legal battle against MCA Records, the label behind Danish pop group Aqua's 1997 hit Barbie Girl. The US Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear an appeal from Mattel which argued that the song infringed its...
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31 Jan 2003
Dobby, the floppy-eared and pointy-nosed computer animated elf in the latest Harry Potter film, could become the subject of an international legal dispute. According to reports credited to Russian newspapers and radio stations, a group of Russian lawyers...
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30 Jan 2003
A federal court of appeals yesterday dismissed a patent lawsuit against US chip-designer Rambus, over its role in developing high speed memory chips for PCs. Rambus and its German rival Infineon have fought a long-standing patent dispute, with each company...
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30 Jan 2003
The Government's consultation document Entitlement Cards and Identity Fraud "does not lead a properly constructed and informed public debate on the privacy implications of the entitlement card scheme," according to the editors of Data Protection &...
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30 Jan 2003
AOL Time Warner has posted a 2002 net loss of $98.7 billion, more than twice what Wall Street analysts anticipated. The loss by the US media giant is the biggest annual net loss in US corporate history.
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30 Jan 2003
In reversing a lower court's decision, the 3rd US Circuit Court of appeals has ruled that judges should not only consider the on-line interactivity of commercial web sites, but also their non-internet activities, to determine jurisdiction, according to...
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29 Jan 2003
A group of MPs investigating the retention of and access to communications data for law enforcement purposes, has issued a report recommending that current data retention legislation for ISPs and telcos should be "dismantled" in the UK and in the EU....
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29 Jan 2003
The London High Court yesterday ruled that the easyInternetcafé chain infringed copyright laws by offering a commercial service that involved burning downloaded music onto recordable CDs for customers. But founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou has vowed...
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