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Twitter joke case reaches court of appeal
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Paul Chambers challenges criminal conviction over tweet about Robin Hood airport closure and 'blowing the airport sky high'A Doncaster man who said on Twitter that he would blow up a snowbound airport if it was not reopened in time for him to fly to see his girlfriend will appeal to...
BT and TalkTalk lose challenge against Digital Economy Act
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Internet service providers lose final appeal after court rules the Digital Economy Act is legal and compatible with European lawThe government has been given the green light to implement the Digital Economy Act after the final legal challenge by two internet service providers was thrown out at the court of...
Kaleidescape DVD servers granted a temporary stay
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Things have been looking bleak for Kaleidescape's DVD servers since a Judge ruled against them on appeal, and earlier this month issued an injunction that was to have taken effect on April 8th. We say was because CEO Michael Malcolm is now saying the California 6th District Court of Appeal...
French court declares itself competent to judge Facebook
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In an interesting turn of events, a French court declared itself competent to judge a case against Facebook, the French regional newspaper Ouest-France reports. The lawsuit was brought forward by a French user based in Bayonne, who complains that he suffered damages when the social network decided to close his...
Why UK anti-piracy laws won’t spark SOPA-like protests
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London’s Court of Appeal has told BT and TalkTalk — Britain’s two biggest internet providers — that they must abide by the provisions of the Digital Economy Act, the government’s controversial legislation aimed at curbing online piracy. The law, which was snuck through parliament shortly before the 2010 election, introduces...
Nokia Loses UK Patent Appeal Against IPCom, Repercussions Debated
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London's Court of Appeal has dismissed Nokia's attempt to overturn a ruling that it infringed on an IPCom patent. Nokia said the decision won't affect its......
UK ISPs Must Write Letters To Pirates, Other Measures Some Way Off
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UK ISPs will have to write warning letters to illegal downloaders identified by rightsholders, after the ongoing protests of two of the largest ISPs were apparently floored by a court ruling on Tuesday finally. Under the Digital Economy Act, passed controversially in mid-2010, copyright holders could send a “copyright...
Can A Company Be An 'Author' For The Purpose Of Copyright?
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Paul Keating points us to an analysis of an interesting copyright ruling in Singapore last year, which said that companies can't be "authors" for the purpose of copyright. They can be owners of the copyright, but not the authors: The Court of Appeal drew a distinction between authorship and ownership....
Kaleidescape Loses Another Round In The Courts—Will It Be The Last?
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It’s doubtful that the U.S. Supreme Court will ever hear digital movie server maker Kaleidescape’s case against the studio backers of DVD’s copyright protection system. But it’s not for lack of trying by Kaleidescape. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company has vowed to keep on fighting, even though a Santa Clara,...
Patent holding firm settles with Boeing for $10 million
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Pendrell Corp., the Kirkland patent holding firm led by former Clearwire execs, said today that it has withdrawn a petition for review with the California Supreme Court related to litigation involving its ICO Global Communications. Pendrell was initially awarded $603 million for breach of contract, fraud and tortious interference in 2008. But...
Nokia loses UK patent appeal against IPCom
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London's Court of Appeal has dismissed Nokia's attempt to overturn a ruling that it infringed on an IPCom patent. Nokia said the decision won't affect its current products....
AP Vows To Sue Meltwater As Its UK Copyright Fees Are Agreed
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As one long lawsuit over online copyright drew to a close, another opened for the news monitoring service Meltwater on Tuesday. Shortly after the UK’s Copyright Tribunal gave Meltwater a partial victory over license fees its customers must pay to publishers, Associated Press said it would sue Meltwater for...
Nokia Loses U.K. Patent Appeal
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The U.K. Court of Appeal said it had upheld an earlier High Court ruling that software in certain Nokia products infringe on a patent held by IPCom....
Charity Asked to Pay for Linking to Newspaper Website
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(Illustration by David Saracino / New York Observer.) Earlier this month, an Irish newspaper licensing body sent a cease and desist letter to a domestic violence charity for the crime of linking to a newspaper article without paying a license fee. In the letter, Newspaper Licensing Irish Limited (come and get...
Pendrell stock falls 45% after court overturns $603M verdict in Boeing case
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Pendrell Corp., the Kirkland patent holding firm led by former executives of Clearwire, said it was disappointed after the Court of Appeal of the State of California overturned a 2008 verdict involving its ICO Global Communications unit and The Boeing Co. In 2008, ICO was awarded $603 million after a jury...
Interviews: Meltwater Appeals UK Web News Fees As Both Sides Claim Victory
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The Newspaper Licensing Agency (NLA) and Meltwater put their own contrasting spins on Tuesday’s setting by the UK’s Copyright Tribunal of the fees Meltwater’s news monitor clients must pay newspaper websites to receive its story summaries. Meltwater CEO Jorn Lyssegen told paidContent the tribunal’s reduction of some of the rates...
Court rules in favor of cellphone search with no warrant
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The US Court of Appeal for the 7th Circuit just rejected a convicted drug dealer's argument that a phone's digital contents cannot be searched in an way without a warrant. Abel Flores-Lopez was sentenced to 10 years in prison in an Indiana case. Officers there linked phone numbers of handsets...
ISP To Challenge Pirate Bay Blocking Order In The Supreme Court
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During May 2011, the Copyright Information and Anti-Piracy Centre (CIAPC) and the Finnish branch of IFPI announced that they had filed a lawsuit at the District Court in Helsinki. The action, against Finnish ISP Elisa, required a total blockade of The Pirate Bay and was yet another example of rightsholders...
Man granted soldier murder appeal following waterboarding evidence
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Liam Holden, the last man sentenced to be hanged in UK, said confession to Belfast killing was extracted under tortureThe last man sentenced to be hanged in the UK has won permission to appeal against his conviction for murdering a soldier in Northern Ireland, after evidence emerged of British army...
Supreme Court Rules Pirate Bay Appeal Judges Are Unbiased
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Following their conviction in 2009, all four of the defendants in the Pirate Bay trial went on to file for an appeal which was later granted. According to defense lawyer Per E Samuelsson, however, two of three judges set to hear the appeal could be susceptible to bias due to...
Julian Assange enters final stage of extradition battle
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WikiLeaks founder's legal team goes before supreme court in London to fight deportation to SwedenWikileaks founder Julian Assange is to enter the final stage of his legal battle to avoid extradition to Sweden to face questioning over sex crime allegations.After failing to persuade a magistrates and the court of appeal...
Pirate Bay Court Appeal Set For Just After General Election
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In April 2009, all four defendants in the Pirate Bay trial were found guilty and sentenced to one year in prison and a fines of $905,000 each. The defense didn’t accept the decision, and went on to file for an appeal. Their appeal is now expected to head to the...
Pirate Bay Founders’ Prison Sentences Final, Supreme Court Appeal Rejected
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November 2010, the Swedish Court of Appeal found three people behind The Pirate Bay guilty of criminal copyright infringement offenses. Although Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundström all had their prison sentences decreased from the levels ordered at their original 2009 trial, they were ordered to pay increased damages...
WikiLeaks founder's hearing set to boost supreme court audience
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Case of Julian Assange likely to provide useful insight into impact of televising high-profile court hearingsAs the only court to broadcast proceedings live on television, the supreme court is anticipating a substantial boost to its global audience when Julian Assange appears this week.The informality of the two-day extradition hearing in...
US Court: RapidShare Not Guilty of Copyright Infringement
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Last year, adult media company Perfect 10 filed a lawsuit against the leading file-hosting service, RapidShare. Among other claims, Perfect 10’s lawsuit stated that RapidShare was guilty of infringing the copyrights of many of its images. The California-based company called for a jury trial in the United States to settle...
Glenn Mulcaire ordered to reveal phone hacking details by appeal court
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Investigator told to reveal who at News of the World told him to hack phones but is granted stay pending supreme court appealGlenn Mulcaire, the private investigator at the centre of the phone-hacking scandal, has lost his appeal against an earlier high court ruling requiring him to reveal who at...
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