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31 Oct 2007
US internet service providers, newspaper publishers, journalists and book publishers have joined together to lobby the US Court of Appeal. They are asking the court to find an anti-pornography law unconstitutional.
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31 Oct 2007
A company’s claim for ownership of the copyright in a piece of software has failed because it was not explicitly stated in a contract. Meridian International Services had said that its ownership was an implied term of an agreement.
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31 Oct 2007
A ban on taxing internet access and email will almost certainly become law in the US. Both houses of Congress have approved an extension to the existing law, and President George Bush is expected to sign the bill within days.
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30 Oct 2007
Goodwill in trade marks can last for 40 years even if the mark is rarely used in that time, the High Court has ruled. The Court ruled in favour of the Football Association (FA) which was defending its ownership of a mascot from the 1966 World Cup.
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30 Oct 2007
Tarzan’s distinctive yell cannot be registered as a trade mark because it is almost impossible to represent graphically. Sounds can be registered as trade marks, but the ruling could limit that to sounds that can be written in standard musical notation....
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29 Oct 2007
Europe's regulatory regime for the trading of securities is overhauled this week by the Markets in Financial Services Directive (MiFID). The new law comes into force on 1st November.
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29 Oct 2007
The Scottish Information Commissioner has ordered a health board to disclose the details of a private finance initiative (PFI) hospital deal worth ₤1.2 billion. The decision could have far-reaching consequences, says a freedom of information law...
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26 Oct 2007
The UK Government is considering setting up a new national police unit to tackle computer crime, just two years after the National High Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) was disbanded.
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26 Oct 2007
The New Zealand performance artist who brought down Amazon.com’s one-click patent said that he gained much of his information from a subsidiary of Amazon itself. He also said that he acted because so little happens in New Zealand that he was bored....
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26 Oct 2007
The body that regulates the structure of the internet is investigating whether unscrupulous operators are stealing domain name ideas from customers.
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