Internet
The Italian Authority seizes 13 websites
Thirteen internet sites that allowed - free of charge - the download of newspapers, magazines and books...
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Google Books wins over the Authors' Guild
After almost a decade of litigation, Google scored a victory last week over the Authors' Guild, which had sued the Company...
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Google in Australia
Australian High Court admitted Google's appeal against the decision of the Federal Court of Australia which had ruled that Google...
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Website owners and use of cookies
In December 2009, European Directive 2009/136/EC (the Directive) entered into force...
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Mediaset does not renew his domain name.com that is bought at an auction by an American citizen
The Cologno Monzese-based company did not renew in time the domain name www.mediaset.com, and after the grace period has expired,...
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The new Google Privacy rules
The new Google Privacy rules are becoming effective in these days...
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Filters and illegal content
With sentence of November 27th, 2011 the EU Court of Justice has stated that, in relation to a controversy between the Belgium...
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ICANN has accepted the registration of domain names with .xxx extension
ICANN has accepted the registration of domain names with .xxx extension for web sites with contents concerning the adult entertainment industry...
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L'Oreal v eBay: a new decision of the Court of Justice on the liability of Internet Service Providers
The European Court of Justice (ECJ), with a decision of July 12, 2011 in L'Oreal v eBay case (C-324/09)...
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Evicting the squatters
The expansion of available domain names continues apace. New gTLDs and more opportunities to use ccTLDs provide businesseswith extra places to do business online. But with that comes danger,as Claudia Strola explains...
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Conviction for Google for the association between a person's name and the words "scam" and "swindler"
By order of March 24th, 2011, the Court of Milan held that the search engine Google was non-contractually liable...
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New gTLDs .brand for domain names
ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the society that manages and regulates domain names...
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EU on GOOGLE: Anti-monopoly probe on its dominant position
Google is facing a preliminary anti-monopoly probe by the European Commission on its dominant position in online browsing and digital advertising...
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Google changes its trademark policy
The rules to protect registered trademarks for advertising on Google are changing: as of September 14th 2010, Google will no more proceed with investigation regarding the use of trademarks as keywords and will only conduct a limited investigation on their use into the ad text......
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Use of third parties’ trade marks as keyword on Google AdWords
On 25 March 2010, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled on the use of a third party’s trade mark as a key word within Google Ad Words...
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First case of criminal condemnation of Google for publishing contents on the web
The Court of Milan has recently condemned three executives of Google Italy for the publication of a video, which showed a child suffering...
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Providers are not responsible for illegal downloading of users
A group of film majors in Australia has lost a lawsuit against an Intenet provider accused of allowing users to illegally download films...
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ICANN announced the possibility to register domain names in non-Latin characters
On October 30, 2009, at the Seoul meeting, ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has approved the use of addresses and web domains in non-Latin characters...
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HADOPI 2: Internet disconnections are effective in France
The law for the protection of copyrighted works on the Internet (Hadopi 2) passed the Conseil Constitutionnelle second scrutiny.
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As dot “yu” disappear, dot “eu” grows
Following by far Balcani’s non recent geopolitical changes, the Internet suffix dot “yu”, meaning Yugoslavia...
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TRADEMARKS - Second Life fights against the illegal exploitation of trademarks
With a press release issued August 12th, 2009, the Linden manager for e-commerce has announced that it will be prohibited on sStreetSL, the e-commerce site of Second Life
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COPYRIGHT: Usenet.com held liable for copyright infringement
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) scores another goal against peer to peer filesharing...
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CHINA: new legal platform for IP
A new search platform for laws and regulations related to IP rights protection and enforcement has been recently...
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The Pirate Bay sold
The Pirate Bay, after having been the protagonist of one of the most preeminent filesharing decisions ever handed down in Europe
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.MX reopening of domain name registrations
The Network Information Center Mexico started the opening of domain name registrations directly under .MX from May 1st, 2009.
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Registrations of domain names. ME
Domain extension .ME will be admitted to registration as from May 6, 2008, to special advantage of business development in Montenegro....
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Serbian Registry of Domain Names News
As from January 10, 2008, top level domain .rs suffix will indicate domain names registration in the Republic of Serbia.
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Regional Domain ‘.ASIA’ to Launch
Registration of domain names suffixed ‘.asia’ will be open in few days
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