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European Parliament threatens court action over ACTA secrecy
The European Parliament has threatened to take the European Commission to the
EU's highest court if it does not disclose the details of a secret international
copyright treaty.
11/03/2010
Contract was in place because companies behaved as if it was, says Supreme Court
A deal was governed by a contract despite the two companies involved not
actually signing and exchanging copies of it, the Supreme Court has ruled. The
contract is in effect because the firms behaved as if it was, it said.
11/03/2010
ISPs, publishers and academics voice outrage at Digital Economy Bill
Plans to introduce a law that will force internet service providers (ISPs) to
block access to websites accused of hosting copyright-infringing content have
been condemned by ISPs, publishers, consumer groups, user rights groups and
academics.
10/03/2010
ASA to take over Facebook, Twitter regulation
Advertising regulator the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) will take over
the regulation of companies' social networking pages by the end of the year,
according to advertising industry proposals.
08/03/2010
EU ministers back revival of old IP enforcement law
European Union ministers have told EU governing bodies to revive plans to create
a pan-EU law criminalising intellectual property infringement, and to make more
use of a new body to co-operate on the enforcement of intellectual property
rights.
08/03/2010
YouTube adds captions for all videos to improve accessibility
All YouTube videos can now carry captions created by speech recognition software
in a move that the Google-owned video sharing site said would improve the
videos' accessibility.
05/03/2010
OUT-LAW Radio: 400 years of piracy
11/03/2010: We dive into the rich, deep history of piracy and find that lawmakers have always been reacting, inventing the concept of intellectual property just to stymie the energetic innovations of centuries of cultural pirates.
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