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Google Told By French Regulator To Pay For Re-using News Or Content

Google has been instructed by the French competition authority to pay French publishers and news agencies for re-using content or news

Complaint filed in Europe's top court against controversial copyright law change recently adopted by EU

Legal

Bad news for tech firms and meme creators as European countries approve reform of copyright rules

Reprieve for memes? EU efforts to reform copyright rules hit a delay after key meeting is called off

Merry Christmas! New Zealand court rules the US can have him, but Kim pledges appeal

Legal

The 'ineffective' ban on the Pirate Bay website has been overturned by a Dutch Court

Google has upgraded its search algorithms to downgrade websites that constantly breach copyright laws

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

Cloud

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

Sweden has accepted that a "church" which believes in file-sharing as a religion: a move that will not please the Hollywood studios

The Lib Dems have pledged to repeal some of the more controversial parts of the Digital Economy Act

British tech firms have urged the Coalition government to change copyright law

Cloud

Apple's iCloud is not likely to hit UK shores until next year, due to ongoing negotiations with rights holders

Cloud

BT and TalkTalk are to appeal against the ruling over the controversial copyright measures in the DEA

YouTube is sending users who upload coprighted material to its service to a Copyright School

Preserving the open nature of the Internet can be more complicated than it seems, says the Internet Society's Markus Kummer