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Greek gaming law defeated in court
News A Greek law banning all electronic games in public has been declared unconstitutional by a court that has dismissed two separate cases against three people charged under the law. The decision by the Thessaloniki court could eventually see the law...
[September 11, 2002, 13:27]
US court rejects Web porn law
News A US federal law aimed at curbing Internet pornography violates Americans' free speech rights and is unconstitutional, an appeals court ruled on Thursday. For the second time, the 3rd US Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia struck down a law...
[March 7, 2003, 7:51]
Microsoft 'a Monopoly' rules Judge Jackson
News Microsoft's antitrust case moved from the court of law to the court of public opinion Sunday as both sides turned the nation's TV networks and newspapers to put their own spin on the widely perceived milestone pro-government, anti-Microsoft ruling...
[November 8, 1999, 8:26]
European Patent Office scotches appeal for review
News The European Patent Office has declined a request from the UK Court of Appeal to clarify European software patent law. Court of Appeal judge Lord Justice Jacob asked the European Patent Office (EPO) to review the rules on software patents, saying...
[March 22, 2007, 8:35]
Google stands up to government porn probe
News US Federal prosecutors preparing to defend a controversial Internet pornography law in court have asked Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and America Online to hand over millions of search records — a request that Google is adamantly denying.
[January 20, 2006, 8:40]
Online buyers get new rights
News Consumers buying goods and services in Europe were given new rights on Friday when a law governing where court cases should be heard came into force. And if a retailer wants to take a buyer to court, they will have to do so in the buyer's home...
[March 5, 2002, 6:31]
File-swappers win privacy reprieve
News A US federal appeals court on Friday handed a major setback to the record industry's legal tactics for tracking down and suing alleged file-swappers, in a high-profile case pitting copyright law against the privacy rights of Internet users.
[December 22, 2003, 10:10]
MS: DoJ is trying to rewrite the law ?
News In two documents filed Tuesday in US District Court for the District of Columbia (Response to Plaintiffs' Joint Reply and Response to States), Microsoft argued that the DoJ and 19 state attorneys general are trying to rewrite antitrust law and...
[February 2, 2000, 9:17]
Judge sides with Hollywood in RealDVD ruling
News A federal court has found enough evidence to decide that RealDVD, the software that enables users to copy DVDs and store digital duplicates on a hard drive, violates US copyright law. US district court judge Marilyn Patel on Tuesday issued a...
[August 12, 2009, 8:38]
Court upholds ex-Intel worker's deluge of critical emails
News Setting a new precedent in Internet law, the California Supreme Court ruled on Monday that an ex-Intel worker did not trespass on company computer systems when he emailed thousands of messages critical of his former employer to staffers at work.
[July 1, 2003, 9:22]
Cameron: 'No compassion' in hacker decision
News Tory leader David Cameron on Friday said there was "no compassion" in the law, following a high court decision concerning Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon. McKinnon on Friday lost a bid to avoid extradition to the US, via high court judicial reviews of...
[July 31, 2009, 17:34]
Nasa hacker loses bid to avoid extradition
News According to his solicitor, Karen Todner, McKinnon and his legal team will also appeal to the new supreme court, which is replacing the Law Lords. Gary McKinnon has lost his high court bid to avoid extradition to the US for hacking into military...
[July 31, 2009, 15:20]
Virginia court rejects spammer's appeal
News The Virginia Court of Appeals upheld a state antispam law on Tuesday by affirming the conviction of the first person in the US to face prison time for spamming. The facts of the case were undisputed in the appeal, according to court documents.
[September 7, 2006, 9:30]
Law Lords: Banks liable for overseas purchases
News The Law Lords have upheld a Court of Appeal decision that banks and credit companies should be liable for overseas purchases where the goods fail to arrive or are faulty. In November 2004, The High Court ruled that section 75 of the Act applied...
[November 1, 2007, 15:21]
Net traffic dips on first day of Swedish antipiracy law
News The same day a new antipiracy law went into effect in Sweden, internet traffic took a dive and five audio book publishers went after an alleged illegal file sharer in court. The so-called IPRED law, which went into effect on Wednesday, requires...
[April 2, 2009, 9:17]
Microsoft not off the hook yet
News The judges are required by law to hear appeals from the lower court. While the appeals court by law must hear appeals, the judges said -- in an unusual move -- that the full appeals court will sit "en banc" to hear the case, rather than assign it...
[March 27, 2003, 16:52]
US ruling boosts spam fight
News A federal appeals court said on Friday that a law restricting junk faxes was constitutional, setting a precedent that favours legal attempts to restrict unsolicited email. The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court's ruling...
[March 24, 2003, 11:11]
France adopts three-strikes law for piracy
News In the spring, the court rejected an earlier version of the law. France's top constitutional court approved a revised plan to penalise those accused multiple times of infringing intellectual property, according to a report published Thursday in The...
[October 26, 2009, 14:05]
Geico decision rocks Google
News Paid third-party ads on Google that use the trademark of car insurance company Geico in the text of ads could infringe trademark law and Google may be liable for such ads, according to a recent court opinion.
[August 17, 2005, 9:05]
Contractors lose IR35 appeal
News The Court of Appeal ruled on Friday morning that IR35, the controversial tax on self-employed contractors, is not illegal, rejecting claims from the Professional Contractors Group (PCG) that the legislation broke European law.
[December 21, 2001, 10:55]
