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Donkey-politician vid keeps two Azerbaijani bloggers in jail
Two Azerbaijani bloggers will remain in jail after using a donkey to represent their government in a satirical YouTube video. Adnan Hajizade and Emin Milli lost an appeal Wednesday asking for them to be released from their respective 2 and and 2.5 year sentences. Their lawyer vowed to continue appealing all the way up to the Azerbaijan’s Supreme Court and the European Court of Human Rights if necessary.
Continue reading »Supreme Court Takes ‘Informational Privacy’ Case
The U.S. Supreme Court is agreeing to decide how much personal information the federal bureaucracy may acquire on its workers. The justices, without comment, decided Monday to review a lower-court decision surrounding the concept of so-called “ informational privacy .” The 9th U.S.
Continue reading »Music Group Gets Court Injunction Against UseNeXT
UseNeXT is a brand operated by Munich and London-based company, Aviteo Ltd. UseNeXT is one of the most popular Usenet services around today and has traditionally advertised extensively within the BitTorrent community and on many torrent sites. On 19 December 2006, performing rights group GEMA, which handles the copyrights of more than 1 million rightsholders worldwide, filed for an injunction against UseNeXT.
Continue reading »Pink Floyd, EMI Brawl Over iTunes Royalties
Pink Floyd and its label, EMI, are battling over online royalties stemming from a contested clause in their decade-old contract. The developer of “The Dark Side of the Moon” and other top-selling albums claims its contract with EMI requires its music to be sold as an entire album, not single tracks that EMI has permitted iTunes to distribute. The band’s attorney, Robert Howe, told a London Court on Tuesday that “It’s a matter of fact that the defendant has been permitting individual tracks to be downloaded online and that therefore they have been allowing albums not to be sold in their original configuration,” Howe said, Bloomberg News reported .
Continue reading »Pirate Bay Users Outside Italy Suffer Collateral Damage
In the summer of 2008, The Pirate Bay was censored in Italy when the country’s ISPs were ordered to prevent their subscribers from accessing the site. The decision was appealed and The Pirate Bay won their case, with the Court of Bergamo ruling that no foreign website could be censored for alleged copyright infringement. The block was lifted temporarily as the case again went to appeal.
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