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Making IP Infringement A Crime
News In March last year the European Parliament (EP) approved a directive that allowed harsher sanctions against infringers on the intellectual-property (IP) rights of others. Crucially this directive, known as the Intellectual Property Rights...
[August 1, 2005, 17:30]
EU Struggles With Vista
News The Commission fined Microsoft nearly half a billion euros in its 2004 decision and ordered sanctions, including the sale of a modified version of Windows. But the Commission has unfinished business trying to enforce its earlier sanctions against...
[May 10, 2006, 9:45]
Government 'bang To Rights' Over HMRC Fiasco
News Where there is flagrant breaching of data-protection principles, there should be tougher sanctions. Louise Townsend, a data-protection law specialist at Pinsent Masons solicitors, agreed that there was a need for tougher sanctions, and said it...
[November 21, 2007, 13:13]
Microsoft Steps On Samba's Toes
News Nine states and the District of Columbia are seeking stiffer sanctions against the software giant than those found in a November settlement reached by the US Justice Department and nine other states. In pursuing those harsher sanctions, lawyers for...
[May 10, 2002, 12:04]
France May Sanction P2P Downloads
News In a move that could thwart the entertainment industry's attempts to seek legal sanctions for copyright violations, French Parliament members voted 30 to 28 late Wednesday night to accept an amendment proposing such a move.
[December 23, 2005, 8:25]
Microsoft: We'll Comply With EU Ruling
News But the judge upheld the EC sanctions today and Chris Parker, director of legal and corporate affairs at Microsoft UK, told ZDNet UK sister site silicon.com the company will now comply with the sanctions ahead of the full appeal.
[December 22, 2004, 14:45]
Europe Should Accept US Settlement, Says Microsoft
News The document brought to light this week gives an insight into Microsoft's strategy for evading further legal sanctions, and also reveals the types of sanctions that the software giant would most like to avoid -- such as being forced to reveal more...
[December 4, 2001, 12:34]
RealNetworks Stands Alone In Microsoft's Way
News The European Court of First Instance is expected to issue a ruling, possibly as early as this month, on whether Microsoft will have to abide by the European Commission's sanctions immediately, or whether enforcement can wait until the outcome of...
[November 15, 2004, 11:10]
Gates' Gamble: One Bluff Too Many?
News By so completely embracing the government's accusations, the decision portrays the giant software maker in the worst possible light, justifying the harshest possible sanctions, including a corporate breakup and fines to cover the government's...
[April 5, 2000, 8:41]
Is It Finally Over?
News Kollar-Kotelly approved the proposed settlement with few additions, rejecting a call by the nonsettling states for stiffer sanctions. If the nonsettling states do choose to appeal, legal experts predict they'll have a difficult time, especially...
[November 4, 2002, 8:37]
Interpol: Give Us The Tools To Fight Cybercrime
News Whether the sanctions are proportionate to the damage caused remains to be seen," Jean-Christophe le Toquin, an attorney for Microsoft in Europe, told ZDNet UK. We need an integrated legal framework to exchange data.
[March 21, 2006, 12:35]
EU Lawmakers Threaten Open Source
News The proposed directive, which was adopted by the European Commission last month, would allow criminal sanctions against "all intentional infringements of an IP right on a commercial scale". This threat would enable SCO to cast a larger legal cloud...
[August 1, 2005, 17:45]
MS To Antitrust Judge: Give Us More Time
News The hearing would help the judge determine what sanctions to make against Microsoft for its antitrust violations. In Friday's 19-page legal filing, Microsoft argued that the original schedule put forth by Kollar-Kotelly no longer made sense because...
[December 24, 2001, 9:27]
Australian Murder Trial Aborted Over Web Site Prejudice
News The Attorney General has received advice from Victoria's Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) that CrimeNet has been given notice and that there could be serious sanctions if information on the Internet site continues to interfere with trials in...
[May 26, 2000, 15:17]
A Year Ago: Australian Murder Trial Aborted Over Web Site Prejudice
News The Attorney General has received advice from Victoria's Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) that CrimeNet has been given notice and that there could be serious sanctions if information on the Internet site continues to interfere with trials in...
[May 26, 2001, 6:28]
Microsoft Antitrust Ruling Faces Appeal
News But the judge largely rejected the states' request for stiffer sanctions. Legal experts predicted Massachusetts could face tough going, particularly if no other states join in on the appeal. But he agreed with legal experts that "there are serious...
[December 2, 2002, 7:12]
UK Advertising Authority Introduces Anti-spam Rules
News The 11th edition of the CAP Code, which went into effect on Tuesday, introduces sanctions specifically aimed at stemming the use of unsolicited email, mobile phone messages and even pop-up and banner ads on the Web.
[March 5, 2003, 14:27]
25 More States Join Fight Against Microsoft
News They are looking for stiffer sanctions than those proposed by the Justice Department and the settling states. In three separate legal briefs filed Friday, a total of 34 states opposed a Microsoft motion that a federal judge should dismiss the...
[March 18, 2002, 9:32]
Lawsuit Targets Microsoft And The DoJ
News It supports the proposals of nine states calling on Kollar-Kotelly for stiffer sanctions against Microsoft for violating antitrust law in preserving its monopoly in personal computer operating systems.
[January 25, 2002, 9:46]
Record Industry Mounts IM Campaign Against File Swappers
News The message sent to German file-swappers said that in their own interests their attention was being drawn to the fact that offering music for download on the Internet without authorization from the copyright holder breaks copyright law, which can...
[August 15, 2003, 17:40]
