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US Court issues summary judgment ruling against LimeWire for encouraging illegal peer-to-peer file-sharing

20 May 2010 | Paul Gershlick

The US District Court for the Southern District of New York has decided that it could rule without having a full trial in a copyright infringement case brought against a web service that facilitated illegal...

Tags on this discussion: copyright copyright infringement file-sharing illegal infringement Intellectual property intellectual property rights IP P2P peer-to-peer unlawful

BA executives cleared for their careers to take off following collapse of criminal competition law trial

17 May 2010 | Paul Gershlick

Four British Airways executives have been cleared of dishonestly agreeing to make or implement arrangements whereby different entities would engage in prohibited cartel activity. A person convicted of...

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Music, movies, moolah – free online?

28 April 2010 | Mark Weston

The new Digital Economy Act includes provisions about online copyright infringement (including 'file-sharing' and 'peer-to-peer' transfer). Under the Act, over the next few months OFCOM is to supervise...

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Airlines experience turbulence as OFT alleges illegal sharing of confidential information

28 April 2010 | Paul Gershlick

The Office of Fair Trading has issued a statement of objections to Virgin Atlantic and Cathay Pacific over an alleged breach of the Chapter I Prohibition of the Competition Act 1998. Following a tip-off...

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OFT sends out clear messages to avoid pricing agreements between different supply levels with £225m fine on tobacco companies and retailers

20 April 2010 | Paul Gershlick

The Office of Fair Trading has imposed its largest ever fine for a single case on tobacco suppliers and retailers for unlawfully having an agreement or arrangement that had an anti-competitive object or...

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Digital Economy Act to cost millions of pounds for ‘innocent’ ISPs

20 April 2010 | Mark Weston

The newly passed Digital Economy Act will cost at least £15m a year to Internet service providers. Those figures have been revealed from a Government consultation document. They just cover the estimated...

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Digital Economy Bill passes through Parliament in controversial ‘wash up’ process before anyone has a chance to say ‘cut off’

15 April 2010 | Mark Weston

The Digital Economy Bill has been passed by the House of Commons without much chance for Parliamentary debate with the aim of getting it on the statute books before the General Election - a process known...

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Arguments of being innocent host in copyright infringement case sent to bin – Twentieth Century Fox v Newzbin, High Court

8 April 2010 | Paul Gershlick

The operators of the Newzbin web site – which provided helpful tools to enable people to share unauthorised content such as films – infringed the copyright owners’ content in providing that service...

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Entertainment value really hots up in on-going YouTube / Viacom spat

24 March 2010 | Mark Weston

The gloves have certainly come off in the legal spat between YouTube and Viacom. Viacom – the owner of masses of media and entertainment content – is suing the popular video-sharing web site in the...

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Internet piracy could cost over one million European jobs by 2015

22 March 2010 | Mark Weston

The growth in illegal peer-to-peer file-sharing on the Internet has a real impact on the European economy. There will be a loss of over one million jobs across Europe by 2015 and over £200bn due to the...

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Latest news and views tagged illegal

US Court issues summary judgment ruling against LimeWire for encouraging illegal peer-to-peer file-sharing

BA executives cleared for their careers to take off following collapse of criminal competition law trial

Music, movies, moolah – free online?

Airlines experience turbulence as OFT alleges illegal sharing of confidential information

OFT sends out clear messages to avoid pricing agreements between different supply levels with £225m fine on tobacco companies and retailers

Digital Economy Act to cost millions of pounds for ‘innocent’ ISPs

Digital Economy Bill passes through Parliament in controversial ‘wash up’ process before anyone has a chance to say ‘cut off’

Arguments of being innocent host in copyright infringement case sent to bin – Twentieth Century Fox v Newzbin, High Court

Entertainment value really hots up in on-going YouTube / Viacom spat

Internet piracy could cost over one million European jobs by 2015

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