Microsoft may face legal action over copied code
News Microblogging site Plurk says that Microsoft's apology over code a contractor copied for its MSN China site is not enough to settle the matter [18 Dec 2009]
- Poor Plurk - Shibley R
Microsoft: Our blogging app did copy rival's code
News The software maker has said its own investigation showed that the Juku microblogging application on MSN China did swipe code from a rival [16 Dec 2009]
- Big Surprise... NOT! - J.A. Watson
- aye.. - CA
Microsoft suspends China blog site amid code claims
News The software maker is investigating allegations that MSN China's Juku microblogging site improperly uses code from rival Plurk [15 Dec 2009]
Apple hits Nokia with copyright countersuit
News In response to the Finnish phone maker's October suit against Apple, the iPhone maker says Nokia is violating 13 patents belonging to Apple [14 Dec 2009]
Single European patent moves closer to fruition
News Intellectual property experts have praised the agreement on a single EU-wide patent scheme, but have warned that the issue of translation remains unresolved [07 Dec 2009]
- Omission of certain fundamentals - Shibley R
The importance of copyleft
Blog Copyleft is one of the 20th century's most important technological achievements, on a par with computers and the World Wide Web. There, I've said it. Copyleft is the principle whereby the... [21 Nov 2009]
Reports: Mandelson to create file-sharing offence
Blog The government intends to create a new offence of downloading copyrighted material without consent, according to reports that refer to a letter sent by business secretary Lord Mandelson to the... [19 Nov 2009]
Judge rules for Apple in Psystar case
News A summary judgement says Psystar's creation of Mac clones running OS X violate 'Apple's exclusive reproduction right, distribution right, and right to create derivative works' [16 Nov 2009]
Verizon to trial campaign of 'copyright notices'
News The US company, known for its reluctance to intervene in anti-piracy cases, will forward copyright notices on behalf of the music industry to those suspected of illegal downloading [13 Nov 2009]
Steorn renews perpetual promise to show free energy machine
Blog Welcome back my friends to the magnetic machine story that never ends, courtesy of Dublin-based perpetual motion mongers Steorn. One of my two favourite miraculous organisations — in the... [12 Oct 2009]
Judge asks to be shown live BitTorrent demo
News A judge presiding over a copyright-infringement hearing in Australia has asked to see a live demonstration of how BitTorrent is used to download movies [07 Oct 2009]
Google, Apple, others hit by Eolas patent lawsuit
News In a bigger sequel to its years-long patent-infringement case against Microsoft, Eolas has sued Apple, Google, Amazon, Yahoo, Playboy and many other corporate giants [07 Oct 2009]
Microsoft controlling Australian Gov't 2.0 funds
News Australia's Government 2.0 Taskforce has revealed that any contracts for its Project Fund will be between successful bidders and Microsoft, not the Commonwealth [01 Oct 2009]
Court reverses Microsoft patent-infringement ruling
News A US district court has reversed an April ruling that would have seen Microsoft being forced to pay $388m in a patent-infringement case [30 Sep 2009]
Pirate Party makes waves in Australia
News The Pirate Party, which champions issues such as intellectual-property rights, free speech and data privacy, is on its way to becoming an official party in Australia [29 Sep 2009]
Android modders to cut Google Apps out of ROM
Blog The maker of CyanogenMod, a modified version of Google's Android mobile operating system, is to distribute the product without proprietary Google Apps included. The shift in strategy follows a... [28 Sep 2009]
Microsoft infringed patent, says appeals court
News A US court also said the $358m jury award against Microsoft was disproportionate to the small feature in Alcatel-Lucent's patent that appeared to be little-used [14 Sep 2009]
Google offers rivals ability to resell e-books
News The search giant has offered competitors a reseller programme that would let them share some rights and revenue, but Amazon has turned this down [11 Sep 2009]
Google fleshes out Book Search privacy policy
News Privacy advocates had criticised Google's Book Search settlement as incomplete regarding its privacy policy, and the search giant has responded with additional commitments [04 Sep 2009]
Microsoft granted stay of Word injunction
News The landmark injunction would have required the software giant to stop selling its popular Word in its current form by next month [04 Sep 2009]
- Woolly-Bully Patent - Xwindowsjunkie
Google Books deal: Amazon calls in the lawyers
News Google's digital book settlement with publishers and authors is to be challenged in the courts by Amazon [03 Sep 2009]
Microsoft files appeal in Word injunction case
News The company has found fault with rulings that led to a jury's patent-infringement ruling that threatens to halt sales of the current form of Word [27 Aug 2009]
Microsoft signs confidential IP deal over NTFS
News Tuxera, an open-source NTFS company, has signed a confidential deal with Microsoft to co-operate on exFAT, a proprietary alternative to the NTFS file system [26 Aug 2009]
SCO group wins Unix copyright appeal
News An appeals court has ruled that a judge was hasty in deciding Novell did not sell Unix copyrights to SCO Group [26 Aug 2009]
- No but .... - Moley
Even the BSA attacking Mandy over P2P crackdown
Blog Peter Mandelson's proposals for cutting off file-sharers have kicked up an almighty ruckus. Technical and legal experts, as well and ISPs and the Open Rights Group, are lining up to give the... [25 Aug 2009]
Microsoft patents XML word processing documents
Blog The US patent office has granted a Microsoft patent application, 7,571,169, which "... is directed at providing a word-processing document in a native XML file format that may be understood by an... [07 Aug 2009]
Microsoft adopts GPL for Hyper-V Linux components
Blog Mark this day in your diary: Microsoft has decided to use the GPL for some of its software. This is according to Matt Asay over on our American sister site CNet News, who reports that the... [20 Jul 2009]
Software patents, and how to route around them
Blog Microsoft recently used its patents on some aspects of the FAT filesystem to beat TomTom into submission, with the latter ending up having to change its products, pay Microsoft and license some of... [03 Jul 2009]
Government attitude to open source improving?
Blog Last year a Government project called Timely information to citizens was announced, which provided funding to local authorities for projects that gets information out to people faster and more... [26 Jun 2009]
FAT replacement licensing must be pragmatic
Blog The settlement between TomTom and Microsoft may not be the outcome that everyone wanted, but it ends the uncertainty over the company's future, and as Rupert Goodwins noted, Microsoft's statement... [02 Apr 2009]
