Copyright Violations

Nokia and Research In Motion renew patent license agreement

Espoo, Finland - Nokia announced today that Research In Motion (RIM) has renewed a multi-year patent license agreement. The agreement covers the worldwide use of standards essential patents for GSM, WCDMA and CDMA2000...

Apple adds DMCA violation claims to Psystar suit

Apple has stepped-up its lawsuit against Psystar, adding claims of Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) violations, according to Computerworld. The clone-maker is accused of reverse engineering the piracy protection methods...

State adviser’s role fighting wind farm deemed ethics breach

A Cape Cod man who is a former member of a state fisheries advisory board has admitted to violating ethics laws by working with a group opposed to the wind farm Cape Wind Associates wants to build in Nantucket Sound. Mark...

The cost of illegal file sharing

Saturday 29 November 2008 11:57:16 by Andrew Ferguson Davenport Lyons' is the name that is at the centre of the current round of letters demanding £500 compensation from people who are believed to have downloaded and then...

The Inside Story of the TV-Links Bust

In October 2007, while most tech media attention was focused on the OiNK raid, another large site got police attention. TV-Links, which linked to videos on YouTube-like sites was raided and shutdown, with the admin arrested. A...

ATF Introduces Online Firearms Form To Ease Transactions, Prevent Errors

Every year, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives finds thousands of licensed gun dealers in violation of federal law, often for very minor problems. The agency, which conducts about 11,000 inspections a year,...

Australias second largest ISP sued for copyright violation

iinet, the second largest ISP of Australia, has been sued by the film and TV industry over the violation of copyright by its users. The lawsuit is filed by Village Roadshow, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros, Paramount Pictures,...

Internet usage may be restricted for students violating fi le-sharing policy

Although all students receive a notice concerning copyright laws and illegal file sharing when they first log on to their Electronic Portfolio each year, several students still have their Internet access restricted each...

European Commission opposes French model in fight against copyright violation

The European Commission have presented a compromise proposal for the reform of the European Telecommunications rules including an amendment by the European Parliament insisting on at least a court order before carrying out...

Voting-machine firm sued for GPL violations

Yet another Linux device maker has been sued over alleged GPL violations. Diebold subsidiary PES allegedly used a GPL-licensed copy of the Ghostscript Postscript interpreter in its optical-scan voting machines, without abiding...

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