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Greece Warned Over Gaming 'mess'
News The Greek government has been warned by the European Commission over a law it passed last year that seemed to ban all computer games. The commission said it is also concerned that it was not notified about the law while the law was still in its...
[July 24, 2003, 11:33]
EU Lawmakers Threaten Open Source
News The European Commission has proposed a law that could allow criminal charges to be pressed against businesses using software that is believed to infringe upon another company's intellectual property (IP).
[August 1, 2005, 17:45]
Harsh Sentences Loom For Spammers
News The United States Sentencing Commission (USSC) said on Tuesday that it had sent Congress sentencing guidelines for the Can-Spam Act, short for Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing.
[April 15, 2004, 10:50]
Covert Staff Surveillance 'illegal'
News Firms that secretly monitor staff email and Internet use are likely to be breaking the law, according to the Information Commission. In a draft of its guide on employee monitoring, The use of personal data in employer/employee relationships, the...
[April 9, 2002, 14:28]
Europe Steps Up War On Cybercrime
News The European Commission said legislation and law enforcement — especially across borders — needs to keep pace with new and evolving opportunities for criminals. The European Commission said laws targeting particular crimes — such as ID theft — and...
[May 25, 2007, 10:14]
Lobbyists Prepare For Next Software Patent Battle
News Pro-patent companies and lobby groups are getting ready for the European Commission's next attempt to change the law around patents. The new patent fight is going to be bigger and more complex because the Commission appears to be looking at the...
[January 23, 2006, 16:20]
Microsoft To Appeal Japanese Antitrust Ruling
News Microsoft on Monday said it will appeal a ruling by the Japanese Fair Trade Commission that the software maker's contracts with computer makers violate that country's antitrust law. The decision to reject the ruling follows Microsoft's decision to...
[July 27, 2004, 10:15]
Intel's Response To FTC Administrative Complaint
News June 8, 1998 -- Intel Corporation said today that it believes the Federal Trade Commission's administrative complaint before an FTC Administrative Law Judge is based upon a mistaken interpretation of the law and the facts.
[June 9, 1998, 17:20]
Faster Than Speeding Spam - 2004's Internet Hero
News Among the nominees are Steve Linford of Spamhaus, for work on spam; the Law commission and, separately, Mary Tait from the DTI, and the Information Commissioner, for work on laws relating to the Internet, and e-commerce minister Steven Timms, for...
[December 23, 2003, 12:15]
A Patriotic Day: 9/11 Commission Recognizes Importance Of The Patriot Act
White Papers Though often derided by its detractors as a knee-jerk reaction to the September 11 tragedy, the law represented reforms that, as witnesses before the commission correctly noted, had long been needed to improve U.S.counterterrorism efforts.
[February 8, 2005, 2:00]
European Parliament Accepts Telecoms Competition Laws
News In cases where a decision could affect the dominant power in the market or infringe community law, the Commission will retain the right to intervene. This is the largest legislative package passed during this Commission, especially on internal...
[December 13, 2001, 16:20]
EC: Software Is Not Patentable
News The European Commission said last week that computer programs will be excluded from patentability in the upcoming Community Patent legislation, and that the European Patent Office (EPO) will be bound by this law.
[May 24, 2006, 15:25]
A Year Ago: Intel's Response To FTC Administrative Complaint
News June 8, 1998 -- Intel Corporation said today that it believes the Federal Trade Commission's administrative complaint before an FTC Administrative Law Judge is based upon a mistaken interpretation of the law and the facts.
[June 8, 1999, 6:33]
US Mulls Compulsory Tag On 'adult Spam'
News The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday proposed a mandatory tag for commercial email that contains pornographic material -- a stipulation of the new federal anti-spam law enacted this month. In another example of the FTC's duties related to the...
[January 29, 2004, 15:05]
EC: A Q&A On The Microsoft Decision
News But the EU case also presented different facts, and given the European Commission's duty to uphold EU law in the European single market, the remedies are designed to fit with the specifics of the EU case.
[March 24, 2004, 11:20]
Government Acts Over High-tech VAT Fraud
News Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) said on Friday it would be able to more effectively combat "carousel fraud" if the European Commission allows the changes to UK law. I hope that the Commission and other member states will look favourably on...
[January 27, 2006, 13:25]
Software Patent Limits 'go Too Far'
News The decision to adopt several amendments to the highly controversial directive, fundamentally altering its effects, is likely to lead to the directive's withdrawal by the European Commission, according to Alex Batteson, IT expert at British...
[September 26, 2003, 17:50]
European Commission Keeping An Eye On RFID
News She said that instead of issuing regulations, the commission plans to develop a set of guidelines — a "soft law", by Santucci's characterisation — by year's end to lay out its expectations on issues like privacy and security.
[April 3, 2007, 9:17]
Data Protection Laws Still Face Uphill Battle
News France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands were taken to the European Court of Justice over the matter in 1999, and France remains a holdout, sticking to its 1978 law, the Commission said.
[May 19, 2003, 16:24]
UK Defies US On Software Patents
News The Europe Commission is currently debating the issue. She said that business methods should remain unpatentable and called for "urgent" clarification by the European commission on its plans. The European Patent Office voted in January against...
[March 12, 2001, 11:47]
