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Filipino court unlikely to recognize Facebook libel
News Lawsuit involving damaging status updates made on social networking site won't go far in court because Philippines has no Internet libel law, says lawyer.
Tags: Lawsuits, Local Government, Web 2.0, Philippines, sexual orientation, entertainment, social networking, Facebook, Internet, general manager
Microsoft faces legal action over Silverlight
News Gotuit Media is suing the software giant over use of video metadata with the Flash rival, which has a featured role in next month's Olympics coverage.
Tags: Lawsuits, Business applications, Software, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Silverlight, Video, software company, San Francisco, online video, Internet video
Microsoft: We're all 'mixed source' firms
News Software maker's top intellectual property lawyer says distinction between open source and commercial software has largely gone away.
Tags: Open source, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Software licensing, Microsoft Corp., Alcatel, Red Hat Inc., IP, Novell Inc., intellectual property
Coalition to challenge Google Books settlement
News Internet Archive is reportedly forming a coalition of tech giants to be led by veteran Silicon Valley attorney Gary Reback.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Web browsers, Web services, Web Browser, Settlement, Class Action, antitrust, Internet, Web 2.0
Facebook fights Virginia's demand for user data, photos
News The state of Virginia has abandoned its US$200-a-day-fine aimed at forcing Facebook to divulge the complete contents of a user's account to settle a dispute over workers' compensation, narrowly avoiding a high-profile privacy battle in federal court.
Tags: Web 2.0, Insurance Company, User Data, Virginia, attorney, Compensation, photograph, accident, Facebook, Web 2.0
Challenge to Google Books settlement focuses on class actions
News Lawyer plans to file a new objection to Google's settlement with book rights holders claiming that class action lawsuits were not intended to strike licensing deals.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Web services, Legal, Settlement, Class Action, RAM, copyright law, New York Times Co., U.S.
BBC buys, uses botnet to show dangers to PCs
News Legal expert says BBC botnet may have broken the law with its spam test, even though the infected computers were not used for harm.
Tags: PC security, Video, computer, e-mail, MSN Hotmail, British Broadcasting Corp., network, Google Gmail, e-Mail Account, PC
Sorting out the Pirate Bay verdict
News What made the Swedish court in the Pirate Bay copyright infringement case go for guilty? CNET News looks more closely at the verdict to find out.
Tags: Piracy, Defendant, Verdict, Sunde, Server, e-mail, co-founder, File-sharing, Web Site, accounting
What to expect from the RealDVD decision
News Judge is known for delivering relatively speedy decisions. But, even if Real loses in this preceding, company could still prevail at trial. We have a long way to go yet.
Tags: Lawsuits, Piracy, Video, Marilyn Hall Patel, Backup, Napster Inc., attorney, RealDVD, Real, Ben Sheffner
Aust state not alone in police hacking laws
News Other jurisdictions besides New South Wales are proposing legislation to allow police to quietly hack into suspects' computers remotely, an Australian cybercrime analyst says.
Tags: Privacy, Hacking, Bill, Telecommunications, Queensland, computer, Victoria, phone, hacking, Facebook
How tech-savvy should lawyers be?
Blogs I recently attended an event for lawyers involved in the technology field. When one of the speakers went up, he aske...
The day tech saved me
Blogs A few months ago, I accepted an invitation from my car manufacturer to attend a driver orientation program. During that ...
ISO offers to take on ODF maintenance
News The move has been prompted by concerns ODF was not being properly maintained by its creator Oasis, says an ISO committee member, rejecting claims of a pro-Microsoft takeover.
Tags: Business applications, XML, OpenDocument Format, India, Office Open XML, Alex Brown, Microsoft Office, blog, technical committee, ISO
Singapore blazes into e-discovery of evidence
Blogs The Singapore courts operate the dispute resolution mechanism by the application of the Rules of Court, as well as vario...
Yahoo settles pay-per-click fraud suit
News As part of a class-action settlement, Yahoo plans to create a new ad distribution option that will give advertisers more control over where ads purchased through Yahoo appear.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Web services, Web browsers, Internet advertising, Yahoo! Inc., Advertiser, Pay-per-click Advertising, advertisement, Web sites
