Megaupload challenges U.S. indictment
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) ... Read the full post ...
EuroDIG: Will governments let civil society rescue Net governance?
IP Watch reports on the European Dialogue on Internet Governance (EuroDIG) in Stockholm last week, at which it was said that civil society should act to protect fundamental rights in cross-border law enforcement situations as governments increasingly fail to do so. ... Read the full post ...
Over 1900 new gTLD applications received by ICANN
Details of the 1930 applications received in the first round allocation of new gTLDs show that nearly one-half of all applications are from North America, and one-third are from Europe. Of the 42 applicants from Australia, the most common industry sectors are banking/finance and higher education. 230 new gTLDs are the subject of competing applications by 751 ... Read the full post ...
Cyberspace defamation reform proposed in UK
Claimants increasingly target ISPs to have allegedly defamatory material removed quickly. This, combined with a low harm threshold and ease of establishing jurisdiction in the UK has, according to the government, had a “chilling effect” on freedom of speech. The draft Defamation Bill plans to change all this. Read here a discussion of the background to the Bill ... Read the full post ...
ICANN announces further details of Trademark Clearinghouse
The Trademark Clearinghouse is one of the enhanced rights protection mechanisms established by ICANN as part of its new gTLD program. The Trademark Clearinghouse will accept and authenticate rights information, and will support both trademark claims and sunrise services, for all new gTLDs. ICANN recently announced it has appointed Deloitte and IBM as service providers to the ... Read the full post ...
French court backs Google in YouTube piracy case
The Tribunal de Grande Instance has ruled that the effort made by Google to remove copyrighted content uploaded by its YouTube users was sufficient to avoid liability for copyright infringement (Reuters) ... Read the full post ...
ITU battle will ‘Determine the future of the Internet’, says US
The United States stands united in its opposition to any international proposal to regulate the internet or to expand the jurisdiction of the United Nations International Telecommunication Union (ITU) over the Web, US officials said on 31 May (IP Watch) ... Read the full post ...
Google publishes report on copyright infringement allegations
Google has released a detailed report which contains various data on content removal requests submitted by copyright holders from July 2011 to mid May 2012 (1709 Blog) ... Read the full post ...
Self help remedy against use of a trademark as Google AdWord
Brand owners have a simple and practical tool to prevent misuse of their trademarks in keyword advertising. As Norton Rose reminds, brand owners can exclude their trademarks from being purchased by their competitors as a Google keyword by using Google’s ‘AdWords trademark complaint’ process. The process allows for 2 types of complaints: a complaint against all users (which removes the ... Read the full post ...
Divisions over future of Internet governance arise at WSIS
Concerns were expressed at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum 2012 about the reluctance of the UN to hire an executive secretary for the Internet Governance Forum, the reluctance of the ITU to allow the global public to see and contribute to the coming International Telecommunication Regulations (ITR), and the need for ... Read the full post ...
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