items tagged with Litigation
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: The Register
2007-05-17 03:52:48
Analysis The world just got a little scarier for social network providers. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals just determined that Roommates.com - a networking site for people looking for, well, roommates - did not deserve immunity under Section 230 of the US Communications Decency Act for information that users of the site provide on questionnaires during registration.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2007-05-16 04:39:43
There's an unpleasant trend among music and TV companies seeking to enforce their copyrights: they seem to think that other people should actively apply technology to stop third parties from making unauthorised copies of the content.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: ZDNet UK
2007-05-15 06:46:53
With the tedious inevitability of an unloved season, Microsoft is threatening open source with the law. Linux is in violation of 235 of its patents, says the company. It won't say which. It won't say how. It won't say what it plans to do. It just wants us to know how it feels.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2007-05-14 05:49:37
The thought of Microsoft suing Sun Microsystems for infringing patents it holds for Microsoft Office seems ludicrous. However, according to a leading open source expert that's what Microsoft will have to do if it is serious about trying to uphold its claim that OpenOffice.org infringes 45 of the patents it holds.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: The Register
2007-05-11 04:22:13
Acer is suing a posse of suppliers to share the pain of patent infringement suits filed by rival PC maker Hewlett-Packard.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: The Register
2007-05-09 05:33:13
A former computer forensics expert hired to testify in court cases has pleaded guilty to federal perjury charges for falsifying his resume and lying in open court, presumably about his credentials.
Read More About Man Faces 10 Years For Fudging Computer Credentials...
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2007-05-08 14:07:51
Thailand's ICT Minister Sitthichai Pookaiyaudom is reported to be ready to file suit against Google and YouTube on Friday after reports that Google 'rejected appeals' to remove clips critical of the Thai King.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: Reuters
2007-05-08 07:28:36
BRUSSELS, May 8 (Reuters) - A former U.S. justice official who tried to break up Microsoft (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research seven years ago has urged the European Commission to tread cautiously if it tries to do the same.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2007-05-07 22:21:08
The English Premier League and music publisher Bourne have filed a class action in a US federal court against YouTube and Google, alleging "a deliberate strategy of engaging in, permitting, encouraging, and facilitating massive copyright infringement on the YouTube website".
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2007-05-07 01:38:43
The legal stoushes are set to continue with NBC Universal deciding to issue a ‘friend of the court’ brief in favor of Viacom and against YouTube – should we now call it SueTube?
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2007-05-05 09:19:45
Will anyone give YouTube and Google a break in the Web 2.0 world of user-submitted content? If the latest lawsuit from the English Premier League is anything to go by, the answer is clearly no.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: The Register
2007-05-03 07:09:59
Google has said it will defend itself against a $1bn lawsuit filed by media conglomerate Viacom and has asked a judge to throw the case out without a full trial.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: The Register
2007-05-03 07:06:26
Microsoft has been ordered to stump up $1.5bn for violating MP3 patents owned by Alcatel and Lucent Technologies.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2007-05-02 19:58:16
Kevin Rose knows on which side his bread is buttered. Without the Digg community the site he founded is nothing. However, the events of the past 48 hours show that the social networking phenomenon has run up against its first real challenge - and it's a doozy.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: Reuters
2007-05-02 06:23:51
HELSINKI (Reuters) - New Zealand-based company Michael S Sutton Ltd. has filed a complaint against Nokia (NOK1V.HE: Quote, Profile, Research in the United States for infringing a data packaging technology patent and is seeking damages, court documents showed.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2007-05-02 01:57:50
Most people out of their teens are aware that potential employers are likely to search MySpace and other social networking sites before making hiring decisions, but it seems a student teacher in the US was denied her degree thanks to an innocuous photo she put online.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: Reuters
2007-05-01 06:59:59
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Business software maker Oracle Corp. (ORCL.O: Quote, Profile, Research on Monday asked a U.S. court to make SAP AG (SAPG.DE: Quote, Profile, Research preserve evidence on its computers, saying it was concerned its German rival might destroy electronic information at the heart of a corporate theft lawsuit.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: The Register
2007-05-01 06:40:22
Three owners of online payment processor E-Gold and an affiliated company have been indicted for money laundering and related crimes for allegedly allowing sellers of child pornography, operators of investment scams and other types of criminals to send and receive payments related to their misdeeds.
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