Archive for March, 2006
After a two-year enquiry by the Office of Fair Trading, the regulator in charge of enforcing UK competition law, Eton, Harrow and 48 other leading public schools have agreed to pay the OFT fines totalling...
European Commission requires mobile companies to reduce roaming charges…
The European Commission has told national telecoms regulators to force mobile phone companies to reduce their roaming charges. Roaming is the international service that enables mobile phone users to...
Microsoft faces new actions in EU and US claiming breach of competition law…
Microsoft, which has fought a series of battles in the last few years in the US and EU against regulators that claim its actions have infringed competition law, is now facing further battles. The European...
Nike claims Adidas infringing its patented shoes…
Nike is suing its rival clothing giant Adidas in Texas. Nike is alleging that Adidas has infringed Nike's patents over its Shox cushioned shoes. Nike has a patent for the design features of Shox that...
EMI first music publisher to announce one-stop-shop EU-wide Internet licence …
EMI, the world's largest music publisher, has announced that it has reached agreement with the UK's and Germany's music royalty collecting societies to offer licensees a European Union wide licence to...
Artists’ resale rights come into force…
The Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 has come into force. Those Regulations implement a new European Union-wide law designed to protect creators of any work of graphic or plastic art such as a...
Da Vinci Code dispute may provide test case to clarify how similarities between two books can amount to copyright infringement…
A High Court hearing has begun between the authors of The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail and the publishers behind The Da Vinci Code, the top bestseller. The two books have some similarities in their...
Google’s thumbnail photos from adult websites probably infringes copyright – US court…
Google's image search service probably infringes copyright by displaying thumbnail photographs of nude models without authorisation of the websites concerned in image search result pages, according to...
French court says man uploading and downloading music on Internet without permission not guilty of copyright infringement…
A French court has ruled that someone who uploaded and downloaded music on the Internet without permission of the copyright owner was not guilty of copyright infringement, because - the court said - his...
Check ‘n Go sues Google in US for selling its trade marks as keywords to trigger sponsored link adverts…
Check 'n Go, a US cash advance business, has sued Google for selling its trade marks as sponsored keywords. Under Google's sponsored link scheme, the keywords trigger an advert whenever the terms are...