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IIPA Demands Canada Be Put on 301 Priority Watch List
The IIPA (International Intellectual Property Alliance) is demanding that Canada be put on the Special 301 priority watchlist. Of course, as with how Canada ended up on the priority watchlist last year, the reasons given fall short of being credible enough to warrant being compared to places like China. It may be a big thorn in the side of major corporations who deal with copyright related matters.
Continue reading »Jail Google execs, say Italian prosecutors
Italian authorities still want four Google executives behind bars. The four are accused of defamation and failure to comply with privacy laws in a case involving a cellphone video . In 2006 a high school student posted a three-minute clip of himself and three others on YouTube.
Continue reading »Ofcom talks to spook firm on filesharing snoop plan
Peering inside your packets Exclusive Ofcom has held talks with ISPs over a monitoring system that would peer inside filesharing traffic to determine the level of copyright infringement, in preparation for new laws designed to protect the music, film and software industries.…
Continue reading »EU block to Mandelson’s filesharing laws removed
Consumer campaign defeated A plan by the European Parliament to restrict the power of national governments to disconnect illegal filesharers has been dumped to win agreement on new telecoms competition laws.… ?
Continue reading »Appeals Court: No Retrial for the Pirate Bay
Rules Judge Tomas Norström wasn’t biased when he convicted the BitTorrent tracker site’s founders for copyright infringement despite being a member of the same pro-copyright organizations as the entertainment industry’s attorneys. It’s official. There will be no retrial in the Swedish District Court which found the founders of BitTorrent tracker site the Pirate Bay guilty for the facilitation of copyright infringement.
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