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British Horseracing Board abused dominant position in charging excessive and discriminatory prices in pre-race data to Attheraces – Attheraces v British Horseracing Board, High Court…

1 January 2006 | Paul Gershlick

BHB compiled and maintained a database containing pre-race information on horse racing meetings.  Attheraces (ATR) supplied websites and other audio-visual media in relation to horseracing in the UK. ...
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Microsoft faces fines of €2m per day for failure to provide interface information to allow interoperability with Windows following 2004 landmark competition ruling…

1 January 2006 | Paul Gershlick

In March 2004, the European Commission fined Microsoft €497m for abusing its dominant position, contrary to Article 82 of the EC Treaty.  It upheld two different complaints.  One was that Microsoft...
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Government reviews UK IP rights…

1 January 2006 | Paul Gershlick

The Government has commissioned an independent 12-month review into UK intellectual property rights, to be led by Andrew Gowers, a previous editor of the Financial Times.  Amongst the remit, they will...
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Apple rival may bring patent dispute over iPod technology…

1 January 2006 | Paul Gershlick

Apple, which has 80% of the market for sales of digital music players is facing a potential patent challenge by Creative, which is a distant second in the market.  Creative claims that technology used...
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Complaints made about proposed restrictions for businesses on names and marks under proposed Olympics Bill…

1 January 2006 | Paul Gershlick

The Advertising Association and the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising have written to Richard Caborn MP, the Sports Minister, expressing their concerns over the proposed new Olympics Bill.  The...
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Draft Artist’s Resale Right Regulations introduced…

1 January 2006 | Paul Gershlick

The Government has introduced the draft Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 to Parliament.  They seek to implement a new European Union-wide law designed to protect creators of any work of graphic...
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Composers and songwriters groups continue online royalty rate wrangle with recording industry…

1 January 2006 | Paul Gershlick

The Music Alliance, a group representing UK composers and songwriters, has proposed that its composers and songwriters earn royalties of 7-9p per legal download rather than the current rate of 5p per download. ...
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Microsoft and eBay work together to remove over 20,000 suspected pirate Microsoft software from UK eBay site…

1 January 2006 | Paul Gershlick

Microsoft and eBay have been co-operating to try to stop sales of illegal copies of the software giant's products from eBay's UK website.  Between August and October, over 21,000 suspect packages were...
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European Commission consults on repealing, replacing, amending or keeping the current database right…

1 January 2006 | Paul Gershlick

The European Commission is consulting on reforming the database right.  It says the current database right is not meeting the original objectives and is causing too much confusion.  The Database Directive...
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Malware threats rose by 50% in 2005…

1 January 2006 | Paul Gershlick

Sophos, the security firm, has confirmed what many people had suspected: that 2005 saw an increase in the amount of malicious software (or malware).  Sophos said that malware threats increased by 48%...
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