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Brampton Factor: Open source stands up for its rights
Comment Open source developers need to guard their intellectual property rights if they want to compete with the big boys, says Martin Brampton. Intellectual property rights (IPR) are usually associated with... [01 Sep 2008]
eBay pays a high price for fakes
Comment Before the decision by the French courts, eBay had already stepped up its efforts to fight counterfeiters through programmes such as its verified rights owner system, which is designed to block sales of counterfeit goods. [01 Aug 2008]
Legal Eye: Trademark landmark
Comment Under the Trademark Directive, trademark owners have exclusive rights to prevent others from using a mark that is identical or confusingly similar to their own. A major European ruling involving mobile operators O2 and 3... [16 Jul 2008]
Legal Eye: Europe's copyright controversy
Comment The EC move is being heralded as the end to a feud between consumer electronics companies and rights owners that dates back to the 1960s. If a member state's copyright laws allow for private copying of already-bought... [18 Jun 2008]
Mike Wright
CIO Profile He also founded and ran a software products company for four years, and was also a non-executive director of another software start up specialising in digital rights management. Mike Wright is head of technology at... [11 Jun 2008]
Legal Eye: Blogging cowboys ride the Wild Web
Comment Our latest research shows only a small number of all internet users - about five per cent - are clear about their legal rights and responsibilities when commenting online. With the explosion in user-generated content,... [05 Jun 2008]
Legal Eye: What's the score for the music biz?
Comment There is pressure to develop so-called 360-degree deals, where a record company manages all the rights of an artist, from tour to television series, not just their recordings. From free downloads to albums you can pay as... [22 May 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 02.05.08
Round-Up The way it works is thus: by taking advantage of the "downgrade rights" offered as part of the Windows Vista licence agreement, PC companies plan to offer machines loaded with XP beyond the cut off date. [02 May 2008]
Dear silicon.com... XP lives, the femtocell 'truth', BlackBerry bashing…
Comment I don't know why Microsoft don't do the blatantly obvious thing, allow downgrade rights on any Windows Vista to XP. Windows XP was getting a lot of attention this week, with silicon.com readers undecided whether the OS... [01 May 2008]
FBI cyber crime chief on botnets, web terror and the social network threat
Comment The cyber crime department's main priority is tackling child pornography but it also combats online fraud, such as phishing, and property rights investigations. Scott O'Neal oversees the FBI's response to computer... [15 Apr 2008]
Legal Eye: Is encryption really the silver bullet?
Comment Earlier this month, Westminster's Joint Committee on Human Rights criticised the loss of 25 million child benefits records as typical of the government's "lax standards" on protecting personal information. [27 Mar 2008]
ID tech tightens up compliance
Comment These systems tie access to resources to the rights associated with a particular user or role. Location-based authentication also means that access rights can be set according to the physical location of... [18 Mar 2008]
Malice, misuse, mistake - security dangers pile up
Comment The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse tracks US security breaches and makes for interesting reading. Just 40 per cent even knew who had access rights. Putting a ring of steel around corporate data is only... [10 Mar 2008]
Legal Eye: Is it wise to hit ISPs over file-sharing?
Comment Protecting privacy: can the internet be policed without impinging on the rights of legitimate users? As it stands, neither the rights' owners nor the ISPs are ready for this watershed - or are likely to... [22 Feb 2008]
Tech Visions: New media floods firms' networks
Comment Locating content and identifying ownership and rights is increasingly important, according to Julie Stoughton, SAP director of industry solutions marketing, media and entertainment. But for many CIOs that future has... [19 Feb 2008]
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