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Kazaa Owner Takes Heart From US Copyright Ruling
News Sharman Networks, parent company of the peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing software Kazaa, is rejoicing at the US court ruling that found two similar P2P programs, Grokster and Morpheus, do not violate US copyright law.
[August 20, 2004, 10:00]
Google Suffers Blow In Belgian Copyright Case
News A ruling against Google in a copyright case in Belgium may influence courts in other European countries, but not the US where laws are more permissible, copyright lawyers said on Tuesday. The ruling sends a strong message to Google, said copyright...
[February 14, 2007, 7:48]
Microsoft: We Didn't Break The Law
News Citing copyright laws, a 1998 appeals court ruling and Jackson's findings of fact, Microsoft claimed it is not a monopoly and did not break federal antitrust laws by tying Internet Explorer to Windows or striking exclusionary agreements with its...
[January 19, 2000, 17:10]
Google Scores Copyright Victory
News The ruling comes after a decision last month in which a federal judge in Los Angeles said that portions of Google's image search feature, which displays thumbnail versions of images found on adult photo site Perfect 10 and others, probably violate...
[March 17, 2006, 9:30]
Open-source Licence Victory In Model-railway Case
News A federal appeals court in the US has upheld the right of a copyright holder to distribute software under a free or open-source licence while preventing such code being used commercially without following the licensing conditions.
[August 14, 2008, 17:32]
Norway Piracy Case Brings Activists Hope
News That ruling -- coupled with a US federal jury verdict that ElcomSoft didn't violate criminal copyright charges by selling cracking software -- points to increased sophistication on the part of the legal system when dealing with such matters...
[January 9, 2003, 9:02]
IT Consultant Fired Over BBC Interview
News It was on the back of this that Hanff was asked to appear on Newsnight to comment on the US Supreme Court ruling that peer-to-peer companies such as Grokster could be held responsible for the copyright piracy on their networks.
[July 4, 2005, 16:35]
Canadian Music Industry Readies Lawsuits
News The Canadian record label group had previously warned that it was likely to follow its US counterpart's legal example, but decisions by copyright authorities had clouded the file-swapping picture in Canada.
[February 16, 2004, 9:25]
Ballmer: Mod Chips Threaten Xbox
News Ballmer was commenting on a July ruling by a Federal Court of Australia judge who found that mod chips sold for Sony's PlayStation2 game machine do not violate federal copyright rules outlawing devices primarily intended to bypass copyright...
[October 22, 2002, 7:49]
File-trading Future In Hands Of Court
News Attorneys for the record industry and the movie studios sparred with lawyers for file-swapping services Morpheus and Grokster in US federal court on Monday, as each side sought a quick resolution to a pending copyright suit against the popular...
[December 3, 2002, 13:33]
Napster: Throw Out The Case!
News In its brief submitted to the US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, Napster lawyers argued that the injunction ordered in July by US district judge Marilyn Hall Patel was based on a faulty interpretation of copyright law.
[August 21, 2000, 8:43]
Judges Let Napster Play On -- For Now
News During another exchange, judge Robert Beezer asked RIAA attorney Russell Frackman how Napster should keep track of alleged copyright violations. Hillary Rosen, chair of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), which is suing Napster...
[October 3, 2000, 8:02]
ISP Gets Deadline For Identifying Alleged File Trader
News Today's ruling goes far beyond the interests of large copyright monopolists -- such as the RIAA -- in enforcing its copyrights," Verizon senior vice president John Thorne said in a statement. The case has been closely watched by entertainment...
[April 25, 2003, 7:48]
Google Loses Image Search Copyright Case
News A US federal judge has ruled that portions of Google's popular image search feature, which displays small thumbnail versions of images found on other Web sites, likely violate US copyright law. In that ruling, the court sided with an image search...
[February 22, 2006, 10:40]
ISP To Hand Over File-trader Names
News In a victory for copyright holders, a panel of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia refused to intervene in the case and protect the subscribers' identities while the case moves forward.
[June 5, 2003, 8:34]
Russians To Be Tried Under DMCA
News US District Judge Ronald Whyte found that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) does not violate Elcomsoft's due process and free speech rights. The ruling "doesn't square with a digital world in which copyright holders preclude people from...
[May 9, 2002, 14:02]
US Praises DeCSS Non-publication Decision
News What's more, the government said, Kaplan properly enforced provisions of the controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), a law passed by Congress that expands copyright holders' rights in the Digital Age.
[February 23, 2001, 8:39]
Napster In Court To Plead For Future
News Monday's hearing comes while major shifts are taking place in the online music arena, as copyright holders seek to maintain control over the distribution of music, and new technology companies experiment with innovative ways to transmit music online.
[October 2, 2000, 8:26]
Will Restricting File-sharing Slow Innovation?
News At the heart of the case is the 20-year-old Supreme Court ruling that made Sony's Betamax videocassette recorder legal to distribute without liability, despite its use by consumers to record and save copyright movies and TV shows.
[March 2, 2005, 10:55]
Microsoft Goes Dutch In Lindows Battle
News Now Microsoft is taking the ridiculous position that the US-required copyright notice in tiny text on the bottom of some of the pages of the Linspire.com Web site will confuse consumers.We hope the judge and the world will view Microsoft's actions...
[May 12, 2004, 9:10]
