Intellectual Property Right
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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
Govts urged to help SMEs through downturn
News APEC SME seminar recommends governments reserve part of their ICT procurement budgets toward enabling smaller businesses to ride out economic crisis.
Tags: Government, Funding, Innovation, Business, Small And Medium Enterprise, Asia-Pacific, Information And Communication Technology, Singapore, Malaysia, Intellectual Property Right
Open source stands up for its rights
Insight commentary Open source developers need to guard their intellectual property rights if they want to compete with the big boys, says consultant.
Tags: Open source, Copyright, Creative Commons, Open-source Developer, Intellectual Property Right, intellectual property, software, financial, software-as-a-service, U.S.
Microsoft told to stop some Windows sales in China
News Microsoft ordered to stop selling some versions of Windows operating system in China, following licensing dispute with a local supplier.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Software licensing, Regulations, Microsoft Corp., software, software company, Sales, font, Intellectual Property Right, intellectual property
AP, AHN Media settle intellectual property lawsuit
News All Headline News admits to improperly using AP content in settlement of intellectual property lawsuit involving "hot news".
Tags: Lawsuits, Copyright, VeriSign Inc., Lawsuit, Intellectual Property Right, intellectual property, Associated Press, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Media, U.S. District Court Judge
Microsoft pushes for single global patent system
News Redmond wants to see a single world patent body established to "promote innovation, enrich knowledge, and encourage competition".
Tags: Business applications, Patents, Patent, Innovation, Intellectual Property Right, intellectual property, Texas, Free Software Foundation, Patents, XML
US Congress looks abroad to curb piracy
News Entertainment industry representatives tell the U.S. Congress it should urge other countries to adopt better intellectual property protections, or it may want to consider working with ISPs as Europe has.
Tags: Copyright, Piracy, Piracy, Video, Intellectual Property Right, entertainment, intellectual property, Canada, online video, job
US Justice Dept opens formal investigation into Google Books settlement
News Government investigators will probe whether or not Google's agreement with publishers over the digital rights to index books violates antitrust laws.
Tags: Federal Government, Lawsuits, Corporate law, Digital rights management (DRM), Copyright, Google Inc., U.S. Department Of Justice, Settlement, Intellectual Property Right, antitrust
Software vendors cash in on new copyright law
News Singapore's amended Copyright Act came into effect this January, but not before sparking an eleventh hour rush for legit software.
Tags: Piracy
House OKs cybersquatting bill as part of budget vote
News The US House of Representatives approved legislation intended to protect businesses from cybersquatters, those who register company trademarks as Internet addresses and try to sell them for a profit.
FBI cracks down on Net fraud
News U.S. government officials said that an investigation has exposed Internet fraud schemes that affected thousands of people who lost a total of about $117 million.
ICANN staff opposes ".kids," ".xxx" domains
News In expanding the pool of Internet addresses, the system's governing body should reject proposals for children and adult domains such as ".kids" and ".xxx" but embrace applications such as ".biz" and ".dot," a report released Friday recommends.
Recent deals sketch future wireless power lines
News The axes of power that will shape the business world's wireless Web access are slowly falling into place.
Barnes & Noble hit with suit over Nook
News A Cupertino, Calif.-based start-up claims the bookseller misappropriated its trade secrets in its design of a similar e-reader.
Tags: Copyright, Barnes & Noble Inc., e-reader, Nook, Alex, California, Amazon.com Inc., E-book, Cupertino, marketing
Use RFC 2606 example domains for example e-mail
Techguide Example e-mail domains were created specifically for use in examples, so that people with real e-mail accounts that happen to coincide with your examples don't suffer the fallout of an unfortunate choice of example.
Tags: Security implementation/standards, Security Management, E-mail Address, Security, Domain Name, Domain, CompTIA, Chad Perrin, RFC, e-mail
