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Sampling a song can be fair use, rules US court
The producers of a film defending the anti-evolutionary theories of Intelligent
Design probably did not infringe copyright when they used a sample of John
Lennon's song Imagine in the film, a New York court has ruled.
21/08/2008
Tech giants near agreement on human rights code
Some of the biggest technology and internet companies in the world have agreed a
set of standards to protect human rights online that they hope the whole IT
industry will adopt. The move could affect companies' privacy policies
worldwide.
20/08/2008
Judge lifts gag order on subway security hack
A US judge has ruled that the country's Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is designed
to combat viruses and worms and not to stop people giving out information in a
speech.
20/08/2008
Court orders woman to pay £16,000 for file-sharing
A woman has been ordered to pay out £16,000 for engaging in the unlawful sharing
of a computer game on the internet, according to the game publisher's lawyers.
The payout could lead to games owners taking more action against file-sharers in
the UK.
19/08/2008
ICANN backs auction of disputed domains
The body behind the internet's addressing systems has said that it will settle
disputes over who wins the right to new generic top level domains (gTLDs) by
auction.
18/08/2008
Open source licence conditions are backed by copyright law, rules US court
Breaching the open source licence that came with free software amounted to
infringement of copyright, a US Court of Appeal has ruled. The landmark ruling
has been welcomed as a major boost to the free and open source software
publishing models.
15/08/2008
OUT-LAW Radio: The secrets of the emerging moderation industry
21/08/2008: We talk to the major players in the emerging moderation industry whose workers keep forum comments clean from bases in locations from Kiev to Senegal.
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