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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
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.
Software body slams EC taskforce over software patents
News Pressure group claims a report into intellectual property by the European Commission is biased towards big business.
Tags: Software, Patents, Government
Fund will help alleged Swedish pirates hit by new law
News Pirate Bay spokesperson and Swedish politicians create fund to help alleged pirates fight accusations after the passage of new antipiracy law.
Tags: Piracy, Funding, Audio Book, Fund, Law, Piracy, Backup, Integrity Association, IP, Green
Swedish antipiracy law: Traffic down, ISP rebels
News Internet traffic in Sweden dropped by almost half after an antipiracy law took effect, but a loophole could take the teeth out of the law.
Tags: Piracy, Web sites, Audio Book, Law, Antipiracy Law, European Union, IP, Netnod, Bahnhof, IP Address
Swedish antipiracy law stirs up political waters
News In a country with a strong tradition of peer-to-peer networks, a new law requiring some ISPs to hand over data on alleged pirates is a hot-button issue.
Tags: Piracy, Law, Survey, game industry, P2P, IPRED, antipiracy, Sweden, File-sharing, Internet Service Provider
Pirate Bay to offer cheap, unlogged VPN
News A new service from The Pirate Bay hopes to provide a low-cost, trace-free VPN to file sharers.
Tags: VPNs, Citrix GoToMyPC, Service, LogMeIn, VPNs, Pirate Bay, IPRED, VPN, Web
Net traffic down on first day of Swedish antipiracy law
News The same day the new law goes into effect, Internet traffic is down considerably and five audio book publishers go after an alleged illegal file sharer in court.
Tags: Piracy, Software licensing, Traffic, Audio Book, IP, Swedish Publishers, computer, antipiracy, Wi-Fi, Sweden
Swedish ISPs vow to erase users' traffic data
News In more fallout from a Swedish antipiracy law that went into effect April 1, some of the country's ISPs say they will erase IP data to protect their customers' privacy.
Tags: Lawsuits, Piracy, Privacy, Traffic Data, Safe Harbor, IP, computer, Sweden, File-sharing, Internet Service Provider
Mobile legal bill now in billions?
News With the mobile industry seemingly overrun with patent disputes, the lawyers' bills could be running into billions of dollars.
Tags: Lawsuits, Patents, Legal
Good reason to strike a compromise
Blogs I had the pleasure of having lunch this week with Stephen Walli, who was in Beijing for a one-day conference on "Open St...
GUI scripting with Zenity
Techguide Zenity allows users to create graphical interfaces for the command line interface, which makes it less intimidating.
Tags: Open source, Linux
Could Sun hold a key to SCO's future?
Insight With the SCO Group pursuing core cases with Novell and IBM, the twist is that Sun Microsystems may have the power to impact the outcome of its legal maneuvers. David Berlind explores the possibilities.
Q-Telecell to roll out WLL technology for voice, data
News Q-Telecell (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd will soon introduce a communications technology that allows the transmission of voice and data via radio signals to outlying areas in the country enabling rural communities there gain access to the Internet wirelessly.
Ericsson, STMicro form semiconductor joint venture
News The two manufacturers have merged their mobile semiconductor and platforms businesses.
Tags: Mobile processors, Processors, Mobile platforms/communications, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, Mobile, Venture, Semiconductor, intellectual property, software, marketing
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