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Software police clamp down on UK firms
The global anti-software piracy body has announced the results legal action against UK companies found to be using illegal software.
Microsoft pulls Word-related versions of Office from sale
Microsoft is forced to temporarily withdraw its software after missing a deadline to purge all versions of Word of an offending piece of XML editing.
Facebook users can 'opt out' of Beacon settlement
Facebook users have until February to 'opt out' of the settlement, which sees the site shut down Beacon and start a privacy foundation.
Italy seeks jail time for Google execs
Italian prosecutors argue that Google didn't take an offensive video down quickly enough.
eBay and Skype founders settle lawsuit
eBay and an investment group have settled a lawsuit regarding Skype, which had been holding up plans to sell off the VoIP firm.
Alan Johnson to be questioned by MPs over McKinnon
A cross-party committee wants to know why hacker Gary McKinnon faces extradition.
Web forces libel law update
The government is looking for feedback on how libel laws should be updated to be more inclusive of web publishing.
Microsoft slams Google digital book settlement
Microsoft has called the settlement an 'unprecedented misuse of the judicial system'.
Confusing Wi-Fi laws could cause mobile broadband trouble
A UK researcher believes Wi-Fi regulation needs clearing up.
Civil cases after EU fine for Intel?
Analysts suggest the EU case against Intel opens the firm up to civil lawsuits – AMD is already lined up for next year.
Pirate Bay judge accused of bias
The judge who found Pirate Bay guilty in its copyright case apparently sits on the board of a copyright protection group.
Microsoft owes $388 million after losing patent case
Microsoft plans to appeal the case, filed by Uniloc over anti-piracy systems.
Oracle appeals liability limits in TomorrowNow suit
The latest twist in the ongoing battle of the enterprise application giants over TomorrowNow‘s “inappropriate downloads” sees Oracle...
Microsoft accused of monopoly abuse over IE
The European Commission has accused Microsoft of abusing its dominant market position to push its Internet Explorer browser.
SAP asks for TomorrowNow lawsuit limits
The German software maker seeks damage limitation, claiming Oracle has made copyright lawsuit too complex in an attempt to bog down proceedings.
TomorrowNow lawsuit mediation fails
The Oracle lawsuit against defunct SAP subsidiary, TomorrowNow is set to continue to court, as mediation efforts fail to reach any agreement.
Open source licences hold up in court
An American court has ruled that open source developers can sue if the licensing terms are broken.
Hacker McKinnon gets extradition delay
Gary McKinnon has been granted a two-week delay on his extradition to the US to face hacking charges, in order to give the European Court of Human...
Court: UK web, call taps breach human rights
The European Court of Human Rights has found that the UK government’s surveillance laws concerning calls and the internet are “not in...
Chinese firm claims Apple is guilty of iPad 'plagiarism'
Great Loong says the iPad's design is a copy of its own P88, and threatens legal action against Apple if the tablet ever launches in China.
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