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Philippine government proposes new IPR laws
News Facing mounting piracy, country unveils set of proposed rules to facilitate faster and more efficient resolution of court cases involving intellectual property rights.
Tags: Copyright, Lawsuits, Piracy, Chief Justice, Conference, Business Software Alliance, Philippines, IP, Intellectual Property Right, Government
Chatroom sex offender gets deterrent sentence on appeal
News A man who used an Internet chatroom to meet a 15-year-old schoolgirl, and had sex with her, has had his sentence increased on appeal.
Judge bars Disney from using Go.com logo
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Jilted cyberstalker gets stiffer sentence
News A pest got back at a girl who spurned him by hijacking her email account, reading her messages and sending out obscene accounts of their relationship to her friends. Yesterday, he got his jail sentence increased to a year on appeal.
Disney must strip sites of Go.com logo
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IDA CEO to head Manpower Ministry
News Info-communications Development Authority of Singapore CEO Yong Ying-I is taking over the Ministry of Manpower.
Supreme Court weighs 'obviousness' of patents
News Oral arguments at Supreme Court question whether current legal standard, opposed by some high-tech firms, is too permissive.
Tags: Software, Patents, Government
US Supreme Court rejects Microsoft antitrust appeal
News Novell can continue with its private suit against Microsoft for alleged antitrust behavior in competing with Novell's desktop PC programs in the 1990s.
Tags: Politics, Antitrust, Business applications
Online news site wins First Amendment victory
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"ICQ pimp" gets a year
News An engineering student, who started chatting with a 15-year-old girl on ICQ and then let the conversation degenerate into threats to expose her promiscuous lifestyle unless she let him be her pimp, has been sentenced to a year's jail.
"ICQ pimp" gets a year
News An engineering student, who started chatting with a 15-year-old girl on ICQ, and then let the conversation degenerate into threats to expose her promiscuous lifestyle unless she let him be her pimp, has been sentenced to a year's jail. Two other men, who met the same girl via a chatroom and had sex with her, also got a year each.
Jail for S'pore ICQ blackmailer
News An engineering student, who started chatting with a 15-year-old girl on ICQ and then let the conversation degenerate into threats to expose her promiscuous lifestyle unless she let him be her pimp, has been sentenced to a year's jail.
Law shelters AOL from child porn suit
News The state Supreme Court said Thursday that federal law shields America Online from illegal transactions--in particular, the sale of child pornography--taking place on its service.
Supreme Court weighs copyright question
News The US Supreme Court signaled at least some support for a group of freelance journalists who want compensation from publishers for electronic versions of stories that originally appeared in print
Disney must strip sites of Go.com logo
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