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UK To Undertake Major Revision Of Its Copyright Law To Adapt To Digital Economy

August 10, 2011 By Leave a Comment

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The British gov­ern­ment has announced ambi­tious plans to make sig­nif­i­cant changes to its copy­right law in hopes of help­ing the UK take bet­ter advan­tage of the chang­ing eco­nomic land­scape in the dig­i­tal age.
The pro­pos­als are remark­able both for their sub­stance and the pro­ce­dure planned for the draft­ing and imple­men­ta­tion of the leg­isla­tive revi­sions. [Read more…]

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Suing For All The Tea In China: Court Exercises Jurisdiction Over Chinese Government And Companies In $2.2 Billion Copyright Infringement Case

August 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment

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The Cen­tral Dis­trict of Cal­i­for­nia is allow­ing a soft­ware copy­right infringe­ment suit to pro­ceed against the People’s Repub­lic of China and sev­eral Chi­nese cor­po­ra­tions, in which the pleaded copy­right dam­ages exceed $2.2 bil­lion.  The Amended Com­plaint in CYBER­sit­ter, LLC v. Peo­ples Repub­lic of China, the plain­tiff soft­ware devel­oper alleges that large and impor­tant chunks of its Inter­net con­tent fil­ter­ing soft­ware were copies whole­sale by two Chi­nese soft­ware devel­op­ers work­ing in con­junc­tion with the Chi­nese gov­ern­ment, and that China then essen­tially man­dated that every new com­puter sold or dis­trib­uted within China have a copy of the infring­ing “Green Dam” fil­ter­ing soft­ware installed.  [Read more…]

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