Copyright

Google YouTube Targets MP3 Ripping Websites

Google is flexing its legal muscles against websites that extract MP3 audio from YouTube videos

12 years ago

BT Starts Blocking The Pirate Bay

BT becomes the sixth major UK ISP this year to block The Pirate Bay but there's plenty of ways to…

12 years ago

TalkTalk Kills Access To Pirate Bay

All major UK ISPs are now blocking The Pirate Bay in the UK, apart from BT

12 years ago

FBI Accused Of Illegal Conduct In Megaupload Case

Seven hard drives of evidence obtained by the US agents were not supposed to leave New Zealand, lawyers claim

12 years ago

Dutch Parliament To Reject ACTA And Its Lookalikes

Motion D66 tells the government to scrap the controversial agreement

12 years ago

Google Takedown Data Shows Secret Piracy Battle

Transparency Report now features figures on copyright infringement claims

12 years ago

EC Refers ACTA to European Court Of Justice

ECJ to see if controversial agreement is compatible with European treaties

13 years ago

Dutch Pirate Party Ordered To Stop Hosting Pirate Bay Proxy

Will the UK Pirate Party also be forced to stop helping file-sharers avoid the block on the Pirate Bay?

13 years ago

TalkTalk Gets Hit By Anonymous – Despite Anti-DEA Stance

TalkTalk is disappointed Anonymous initiated a DDoS on its site, after its strong opposition to draconian anti-piracy measures

13 years ago

Jury Hands Oracle Partial Victory Over Google

The jury in Oracle's lawsuit against Google has agreed Google infringed Oracle's Java copyrights, but deadlocked on the issue of…

13 years ago

Neelie Kroes Accepts ACTA Is Doomed

Controversial agreement is unlikely to pass the vote

13 years ago

Microsoft: Patents Aren’t Perfect, But They’re The Best We’ve Got

Patents may be the best man-made invention ever - but they need perfecting, says Microsoft's Ron Zink

13 years ago

Microsoft Backs Patent Promotion Group

Ideas Matter preaches the benefits of patents to inventors, but is quiet on their use in corporate warfare

13 years ago

Oracle Lawyers Focus On Google Internal Emails

Oracle's questioning in its Google lawsuit has focused on establishing whether Google's Android project leader knew the company needed a…

13 years ago

YouTube Loses German Copyright Case

German court ruling may force Google to apply filtering and pay royalties on copyright material

13 years ago

Megaupload Trial May Never Happen, Says US Judge

FBI failed to serve Megaupload with formal charges, a US judge has said

13 years ago

Judge Preserves Megaupload Data For Two More Weeks

Interested parties have two weeks to agree on what is to become of the 1,100 powered-down servers that hold 25…

13 years ago

Oracle Finally Takes Google To Court

Oracle versus Google, the "World Series of court cases" starts today

13 years ago

Google’s Brin Warns Internet At Risk From China, Apple, Facebook

China has contained the Internet, and Facebook and Apple are restricting it, warns Google founder Sergey Brin

13 years ago

Portugal Proposes Terabyte Tax To Pay Copyright Holders

Portugal is planning a tax of up to €0.5 per Gigabyte, to pay copyright owners

13 years ago

Russian Law Could Hold ISPs Responsible For Piracy

Changes introduced to the Civil Code will wipe out local file-sharing networks

13 years ago

O2 Must Hand Over Details Of Alleged Porn Users

O2 Broadband must give details of over 9,000 alleged filesharers to pornographer Ben Dover - but it doesn't mean they…

13 years ago

Swedish Police Begin New Pirate Bay Investigation

Swedish web hosting company says police asked it to reveal personal details about Pirate Bay domain owner

13 years ago

Home Secretary Approves O’Dwyer Extradition

TVShack creator faces up to five years in prison over copyright infringement charges

13 years ago

German Law To Make Google Pay For News Snippets

A planned German copyright law would introduce a fee system for news aggregators, as well as search engines such as…

13 years ago

Pinterest Users Blocked From Sharing Flickr Photos

Photo sharing site implements 'do not pin' code as Pinterest reaffirms commitment to copyright protection

13 years ago

HTML5 Copyright Protection Proposals Branded “Unethical”

Google, Microsoft and Netflix lend their support to DRM for HTML5

13 years ago

Opposition To ACTA Grows As UK Braces For Protests

Two European countries have frozen work on ratification, and a day of protests is planned for 11 February

13 years ago

BitTorrent Site BTjunkie Closes In Megaupload Aftermath

BTjunkie, one of the world's most popular BitTorrent sites, has voluntarily shut down following recent anti-piracy moves

13 years ago