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		<title>We&#8217;re not the Internet content police, says ICANN</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2015 01:08:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ICANN has declared it is not, and cannot be, a content regulator. In a recent blog post, ICANN&#8217;s Chief Contract Compliance Officer, Allen R. Grogan, states ICANN &#8220;was never granted, nor was it ever intended that ICANN be granted, the authority to act as a regulator of Internet content&#8221;. Accordingly, despite calls for it to do so, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK court extends ISP site blocking remedy to online trademark infringement</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2014 06:38:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The UK High Court has held that trademark holders may be granted site-blocking injunctions against ISPs, despite the absence of an express provision to that effect in the legislation. Site-blocking injunctions pursuant to s97A CDPA are now well established in relation to online copyright infringement.  The judgment in Cartier International and Others vs BSkyB and others [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Italy implements administrative take-down of sites selling fake goods</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2014 01:39:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Copyright in Cyberspace]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Italian Antitrust Authority now has the power &#8211; limited to the Italian territory &#8211; to shut down clone websites selling counterfeit or pirate goods. IP Law Galli reports that the Antitrust Authority has used its power to shut down hundreds of clone websites in response to complaints lodged by IP rights owners.]]></description>
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		<title>UK court issues simplified foreign pirate website blocking orders</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 05:36:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Copyright in Cyberspace]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The UK High Court has made a court order requiring UK ISPs to block access to three hugely popular peer-to-peer file-sharing web sites based outside the UK. The court order requires BSkyB, British Telecom, Everything Everywhere, TalkTalk, Telefonica and Virgin Media to block access to H33T, Fenopy, and KAT, on the ground that each service provider &#8220;has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Substituted service of Australian legal documents via Facebook</title>
		<link>http://achristie.com/substituted-service-of-australian-legal-documents-via-facebook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2013 01:41:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over recent years, a trend has emerged where Australian courts are permitting the service of documents to be effected through Facebook and other social networking sites, reports Colin Biggers &#38; Paisley.]]></description>
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		<title>Pirate Bay’s move to the cloud is futile, says anti-piracy body</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2012 04:18:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Copyright in Cyberspace]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Federation Against Software Theft (FAST) has denounced the Pirate Bay’s move to the cloud as useless, saying measures already exist for governments to access cloud data in cross-border criminal investigations. The Pirate Bay’s move to the cloud is just the latest phase in the on-going technological war between those who wish to proliferate illicit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Megaupload’s motion to dismiss federal charges denied by US federal court</title>
		<link>http://achristie.com/megaupload%e2%80%99s-motion-to-dismiss-federal-charges-denied-by-us-federal-court/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 07:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Copyright in Cyberspace]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The foreign corporation behind the alleged piracy website Megaupload.com has failed in its bid to have criminal copyright charges dismissed on the grounds that it lacked a US mailing address and therefore could not be properly served service of process, reports Arent Fox.]]></description>
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		<title>Google&#8217;s Brazilian chief arrested over allegedly defamatory YouTube videos</title>
		<link>http://achristie.com/googles-brazilian-chief-arrested-over-allegedly-defamatory-youtube-videos/</link>
		<comments>http://achristie.com/googles-brazilian-chief-arrested-over-allegedly-defamatory-youtube-videos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2012 04:39:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Defamation in Cyberspace]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Police arrested Google Brazil head Fabio Jose Silva Coelho on 27 September over his refusal to remove two videos on Google’s YouTube that allegedly slander, insult and defame an election candidate, IP Watch reports. This is not the first time that Google officials have been either arrested or slapped with charges for the defamatory videos [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Megaupload cites lack of jurisdiction in attempt to dismiss US charges</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2012 03:35:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Copyright in Cyberspace]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Attorneys for Hong Kong-based Megaupload have filed a motion to dismiss the US government’s charges of mass copyright infringement, arguing that a foreign corporation that lacks a US office is not subject to jurisdiction within the United States (Arent Fox) Megaupload&#8217;s file-hosting services at one time claimed 180 million users and allegedly generated hundreds of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Megaupload challenges U.S. indictment</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2012 01:31:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Copyright in Cyberspace]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the latest twist in one of the largest Internet piracy actions brought by the U.S. Government to date, attorneys for Megaupload.com and its founder, Kim Dotcom, are challenging whether the United States had the right to bring the action waged against Megaupload and its executives this past January (Baker Hostetler)]]></description>
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