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Online Legal Issues

Pink Floyd Wins Legal Battle Against Single Track Downloads

A judge has taken Pink Floyd’s side in a court battle between the band and its label, EMI, and digital downloads are at stake. The band says its 11-year-old contract only permits EMI to sell complete albums, not individual tracks, but the label has been offering downloads of individual songs through online services like iTunes.

BT chief attacks efforts to cut off illegal file-sharers

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US Patent Office Decides That One Click Really Is Patentable

Ladies and gentlemen, we now have confirmation that the USPTO is a joke. After years of back and forth, it has decided, once again, that Amazon's one-click patent is perfectly valid. This, despite tons of prior art, and basic common sense. We were just wondering what was taking so long for the USPTO to reject the patent. But, of course, it seemed like the USPTO was willing to go out of its way to help keep this patent around. Of course, as some are pointing out, the end result of this patent surviving is that it may be used as example number one for patent reform.

Majority of Swedes aged 18-25 in favour of legal downloads

France Telecom names management team for French operations Telenor Sweden sells Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 online Dutch 2.6GHz auction attracts 9 bidders MTN Group FY revenue up 9.2% to ZAR 111.9 bln Virgin Media trials using telephone poles for broadband China Mobile buys 20% stake in Pudong Bank Telefonica develops mobile phone for use in uncovered areas Unions angry as Vodafone UK confirms 375 job losses Kabel Deutschland sets IPO share price range Cisco triples routing capacity with CRS-3 launch

EU Parliament threatens anti-piracy treaty

Virgin Media has unveiled a new trial using telegraph poles to deliver ultrafast 50Mb broadband to the Berkshire village of Woolhampton. By connecting homes directly to Virgin Media's fibre optic network, the trial will effectively increase broadband speeds more than ten-fold. As well as ultrafast broadband, villagers will be offered Virgin Media's TV service. The trial will start this month and is scheduled to run for approximately six months.

American Inns of Court Joins Alliance Partner Program for LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell Connected Online Legal Network

American Inns of Court Joins Alliance Partner Program for LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell Connected Online Legal Network

Canadian Music Week: Ole's McCarty Tackles ISPs On Piracy

Michael McCarty, president of Canadian music publisher ole, told a crowd at the kickoff of Canadian Music Week that Internet Service providers need to start paying for the content users freely take over their networks.

Nintendo scores another win over R4 piracy

Tags | Super Mario Bros | RSJ IT Solutions | R4 chips. eBay | Nintendo | Australian Customs and Border Protection Service | amazon

Failblog: France's Tough Piracy Law Makes Piracy Rates Go Up

Here's one of those fabulous stats that basically explodes an argument people thought was done and dusted: New data shows that online content piracy has risen in France despite the nation's super-tough three-strikes Net ban law.

Murdoch calls for tough stance against illegal downloaders

Cisco's CRS-3: the router for the next decade Qualcomm hints at multi-function media gateway Alcatel-Lucent makes good catch with Carter appointment FCC needs to check its numbers again Microsoft, Nokia look to take back smartphone market Another international operator dives into M2M market Google goes to the 'last mile' with FTTH tests More commentaries

Health Net Sued for HIPAA Violations

Goedert J – Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has filed a lawsuit charging Health Net of Connecticut Inc. with violations of the HIPAA privacy and security rules following a large breach of identifiable medical records and Social Security numbers.

MEPs reject Acta online anti-piracy deal

Negotiators who are thrashing out a secret international anti-counterfeiting agreement (Acta) may have to revise their strategy following a 663 to 13 vote against it in the European Parliament.

Customs seizes games piracy devices

The Australian Customs Service has seized a number of R4 cartridges, which allow piracy on Nintendo handheld DS and DSi consoles, as well as other gaming products claimed to be counterfeit, according to games giant Nintendo.

Justices rule in online copyright settlement dispute (March 2, 2010)

The Supreme Court held today that the law does not restrict federal court jurisdiction over copyright infringement actions.

Customs seizes games piracy devices

The Australian Customs Service has seized a number of R4 cartridges, which allow piracy on Nintendo handheld DS and DSi consoles, as well as other gaming products claimed to be counterfeit, according to games giant Nintendo.

Illegal 'smart drugs' bought online by teenagers before exams

London, March 10 (MIA) - Josh has an exam and, like most of the other boys at his prestigious public school, he’s keen to put his best foot forward. He’s eaten breakfast and dressed smartly, but before he sets off for class, he reaches for a white pill and pops it into his mouth.

Talent Injection: Syringe Squirts Industry Pro Into Top Spot at Health Net's Legal Dept.

Health Net, Inc., provider of managed health care coverage to some 6.7 million members across the United States, is self-medicating.

European Parliament slams digital copyright treaty

The European Parliament took aim Wednesday at a secret intellectual property treaty that has been criticized for possibly giving copyright holders more power to pull the plug on peer-to-peer users.

European Parliament slams digital copyright treaty

The European Parliament took aim Wednesday at a secret intellectual property treaty that has been criticized for possibly giving copyright holders more power to pull the plug on peer-to-peer users.

Updated: Nintendo scores another win over R4 piracy

Tags | Super Mario Bros | RSJ IT Solutions | R4 chips. eBay | Nintendo | Australian Customs and Border Protection Service | amazon

Companies protest against online piracy bill

Leading British technology companies are lashing out against a British bill that would allow copyright holders to force Internet service providers to block Web sites offering pirated content.

YouTube Copyright Rights

Up In The Air at Art of the Title Sequence And a related story in today’s NY Times, New Honor for the Designs That Get Movies Moving, about SXSW’s film title competition.

Rescuecom Declares Victory... In Dropping Its Lawsuit Against Google

We've covered some of Rescuecom's bizarre lawsuit against Google for selling Adwords based on Rescuecom's trademarks. The lawsuit has been going on for a while, without Rescuecom getting very far. At almost every turn it was pointed out that what was happening was not trademark infringement. Finally, after many years, Rescuecom has given up and dropped the case... but in the process it's declaring "victory" in the lawsuit. Seriously. The explanation for the "victory"? That Google now lets trademark holders remove trademarks from the "keyword suggestion" tool. Only problem? Google enabled this in 2005. Basically, the more likely story is that Rescuecom knew it was going to lose and...

Top UK tech companies protest against piracy bill

Leading British technology companies are lashing out against a British bill that would allow copyright holders to force Internet service providers to block Web sites offering pirated content.

BT Boss Condemns Government Piracy Measures

Lenovo’s W701ds and W510 mobile workstations gain Intel Core i7 processors and top-of-the-line Nvidia graphic chipsets to propel compute-intensive workloads


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