Lawyer
1172 Stories

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.

Thursday, September 24 2009 11:10 AM

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.

Thursday, July 17 2008 10:34 PM

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.

Monday, October 20 2008 10:19 AM

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.

Friday, August 21 2009 12:11 PM

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.

Tuesday, September 15 2009 10:25 AM

Tags: Web 2.0, Insurance Company, User Data, attorney, Compensation, Virginia, 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.

Thursday, August 20 2009 10:34 AM

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.

Friday, March 13 2009 11:26 AM

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.

Wednesday, April 22 2009 12:06 PM

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.

Monday, May 25 2009 09:39 AM

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.

Friday, March 13 2009 11:53 AM

Tags: Privacy, Hacking, Bill, Telecommunications, Queensland, computer, Victoria, phone, hacking, Facebook