Showing posts with label infringement. Show all posts
Showing posts with label infringement. Show all posts
27 October 2013

Latest 'Think Of The Children' Scaremongering: Pirated Films Might 'Disturb' Them

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Just last week we heard how Russia has extended its "think of the children" law to include copyright infringement. That was ...

As Russia Expands Its 'Think Of The Children' Laws To Copyright, Agency In Charge Investigated For Infringement

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Last week we wrote about how the Russian equivalent of SOPA had been amended in order to ban swearing online. Although that was worth ...
20 July 2013

McAfee Patents System To 'Detect And Prevent Illegal Consumption Of Content On The Internet'

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As a post on the French site Numerama reminds us ( original in French ), the department responsible for implementing the three-strikes p...
06 January 2013

Israeli Bill Would Allow Secret Courts To Issue Confidential Warrants To Block Web Sites Allegedly Involved In Copyright Infringement

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One of the most depressing developments in recent years has been the gradual adoption of legal approaches to tackling copyright infringem...
10 August 2012

UK Politicians Don't Seem To Mind That Every Web Page You Load Is Copyright Infringement Under Current Law

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Last year Techdirt wrote about the almost unbelievable Meltwater decision in the UK, where the courts said that viewing a Web page withou...
29 July 2012

Digital Economy Act Consultation Response

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Last week I wrote about the extremely short consultation period for aspects of implementing the Digital Economy Act. Time is running ou...
15 July 2012

What Happens If File Sharing Can Also Be Prosecuted As Trademark Infringement?

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In the arguments over ACTA, one criticism seemed widely accepted: that it tries to bundle together two quite different challenges -- tack...
30 June 2012

UK's 3-Strikes Plan Continues To Grind Through The System; Still Not In Force, Still Awful

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As Techdirt reported in 2010, the passage of the Digital Economy Act was one of the most disgraceful travesties of the UK parliamentary ...
06 June 2008

GFDL Smackdown: RMS vs. Beijing Underground

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Seems like the Beijing underground authorities have infringed on an image from Wikipedia, which uses the GNU Free Documentation Licence: ti...
26 February 2008

Patents to Stifle Competition? - Surely Not

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Another judge gets it : A federal judge recently got so infuriated by the conduct of two highly regarded trial attorneys that he overturned ...
28 February 2007

Patent Abuse

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Oh, look. Here's yet another reason to get rid of patents: Guess what? Radio frequency identification tags are insecure. But don't ...
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