Internet governance on a shoestring
The recent UN-led Internet Governance Forum in Baku, Azerbaijan was used as a stage for some very targeted messages on the upcoming World Conference on International Telecommunication, it saw yet another round of exchanges on some of the tough questions of digital society from privacy and security to future copyright, and had the most intensive ... Read the full post ...
Australian court orders Google to pay $200,000 damages for defamatory search results
The Supreme Court of Victoria has ordered Google to pay damages of $200,000 for publishing search engine results found by a jury to be defamatory. In Milorad Trkulja v Google Inc, a jury found that certain images and web pages generated by the Google search engine in response to a query using the plaintiff’s name imputed that “the plaintiff ... Read the full post ...
How have virtual goods been treated by courts globally?
The term “virtual goods” does not have a precise definition, but is generally understood to refer to any intangible objects that exist in an online environment, typically in-game items in online computer games There are questions about whether or not virtual goods can be construed as “property” at law, as this summary by King & ... Read the full post ...
Greater transparency under new Twitter copyright takedown policy
Under a revision to its copyright notice and takedown policy, when Twitter takes down an alleged infringing tweet it will now automatically post a tweet in the user’s feed stating the material has been withheld in response to a report from a copyright holder. And, as it already does with other requests to block or remove ... Read the full post ...
No reasonable expectation of privacy for accessors of child pornography
The Court of Appeal for Ontario has determined that an Internet user who accesses child pornography does not have a reasonable expectation of privacy so as to preclude an ISP from disclosing the user’s identity to police, reports McCarthy Tétrault. ... Read the full post ...
Enforcement issues in the new gTLD program – post-Toronto update
Steptoe & Johnson report on program developments, upcoming deadlines, and potential enforcement options, including development of strategies to detect and deter possible infringement, following from the October ICANN meeting in Toronto. ... Read the full post ...
“F*** You, This Is My Culture!” Pirate Party Rep Tells UN Meeting
Amelia Andersdotter, member of the European Parliament for the Swedish Pirate Party, in no polite words told the participants of the 7th Internet Governance Forum in Baku what she thought about the lack of progress in adapting copyright to the digital age, reports IP Watch. ... Read the full post ...
Pirate Bay’s move to the cloud is futile, says anti-piracy body
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 ... Read the full post ...
Nominet finds critical website not an abusive domain name registration
Nominet, the organisation that manages the .uk top-level domain, has refused to order the transfer of the domain name <opticalexpressruinedmylife.co.uk> to the owners of Optical Express DCM (Optical Holdings) Limited. RPC reports that Nominet found that the domain name was not an abusive registration, since its purpose was the genuine criticism of Optical Express. This ... Read the full post ...
Megaupload’s motion to dismiss federal charges denied by US federal court
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. ... Read the full post ...
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