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Amazon's Kindle ignites legal upheaval
Comment With e-books, the challenge faced by lawmakers throughout the world to ensure copyright and intellectual property legislation keeps pace with the rate of technological change will only grow. At this time it started to... [27 Oct 2009]
Christian Engström
AS Profile The party, which campaigns on the issue of copyright and patent law reform, won a Swedish seat in the European Parliament during the recent round of elections. For Engström it is his latest move in his ongoing battle... [08 Oct 2009]
PKI Based Semi-Fragile Watermark for Visual Content Authentication
White Paper Multimedia content owners always endure of copyright protection and ownership verification of their digital assets. Robust watermarking techniques are invented to defeat these problems. However evolution of the... [02 Oct 2009]
Skype founders vs Skype: 'You've violated our patents'
News Joltid, a peer-to-peer software company established by Skype's founders, filed a copyright suit against Skype on Wednesday alleging Joltid's technology is being infringed on by Skype users "in the United States at least... [17 Sep 2009]
Beyond DRM: What Online Publishers Need to Know
White Paper This white paper examines some of the current approaches to Digital Rights Management (DRM) and the considerations for copyright holders striving to prevent the unauthorized duplication of their works. [12 Sep 2009]
Google Books hit with fresh wave of criticism from Microsoft, Open Book Alliance
News Microsoft, now finding itself on the same side of the issue as Reback, argued in a brief that Google should not have obtained clearance to scan copyright protected books through a class-action settlement. [09 Sep 2009]
Bullet-Proofing Instant Messaging
White Paper Messenger or Windows Live Messenger, your company's network is at risk for malware infections, regulatory compliance breaches and copyright violations. Information workers on the job often turn to the same software tools... [09 Sep 2009]
Google seeks to appease Europe with digital books copyright deal
News Plaintiffs alleged that the company's digitising initiative amounted to "massive" copyright infringement. On the first day of the events, Viviane Reding, the EU's commissioner for information society and media, and... [08 Sep 2009]
Amazon steps up Google Books criticism with court filing
News In its filing, Amazon notes it has also scanned books, but has not taken the controversial step that Google took in scanning out-of-print but copyright-protected books without explicit permission. Back in 2004, when... [03 Sep 2009]
SCO Group wins copyright appeal against Novell decision
News SCO Group, whose six-year-old legal case arguing Linux infringes its Unix copyright hasn't been enough to keep it from the bankruptcy courts, nevertheless won an important victory in its case on Monday. [26 Aug 2009]
File-sharers' internet access could be cut off
News The plans, announced by Lord Mandelson's Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, would see ISPs tasked with suspending internet access for users suspected of copyright infringement. Illegal file-sharers could see... [25 Aug 2009]
Microsoft, Amazon, Yahoo! join fight against Google Books
News The Authors Guild, which represents more than 8,000 authors, sued Google in September 2005, alleging that the company's digitizing initiative amounted to "massive" copyright infringement. Under the proposed $125m... [21 Aug 2009]
Top Ten Hidden Costs to OEM Businesses
White Paper Copyright © Embedded systems organizations are in the process of transforming their operations from working with custom mother board design and manufacture, to building on white box and brandname equipment. [03 Aug 2009]
Want to keep eavesdroppers out? HP researchers think they have the answer
News HP has no desire to patent or copyright or release any code," said Wood. Two researchers for HP have created a browser-based darknet, an idea that could make it easier for businesses to keep eavesdroppers from finding... [27 Jul 2009]
EU: Authors - we need you. What do you think of Google books?
News European Union regulators want publishers and authors to weigh in on copyright issues with Google's book scanning and book search project, according to the Associated Press. European Commission officials will meet with... [21 Jul 2009]
