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World
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April
2007
In vogue
IP protection for
fashion design Fashion
has been characterized
as a low intellectual
property protection
regime. A copyright bill
introduced in the US
House ...
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Turning a blind eye Corporate
liability for employee
file sharing The battle
by copyright-based
industries to clamp down
on illegal peer-to-peer
file-sharing has never
been far from the ...
Case Comment
Fresh air or thick fog?
Proctor & Gamble (“P&G”)
owned a registered
Community design for the
shape of an air
freshener canister which
featured a
trigger-operated top
section. P&G brought ...
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Going for a song
The long running case of
Peer International
Corporation v Termidor
Music Publishers Limited
and Editora Musical de
Cuba (EMC) reached a
no-score draw with ...
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Made for sharing?
The appeal judgment of
Justice Beeson in HKSARG
v Chan Nai Ming [TMCC
1268/2005] (aka “Big
Crook” from his online
pseudonym) for the
moment ...
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Stepping out
In December 2006, for
the very first time in
Canadian copyright law,
the Federal Court of
Canada (the “Court”)
applied the maximum
award of statutory ...
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Who wants to get
electing?
Arecent decision of the
Court of Appeal, Point
Solutions Ltd v Focus
Business Solutions Ltd
and another [2007] EWCA
Civ 14, suggests the
possible ...
News
Beijing news settles
suit with tom.com CHINA – The
Beijing News has settled
its copyright
infringement lawsuit
against web portal
tom.com after the latter
apologised and offered
monetary compensation.
The ...
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CD-WOW loses fight
against record companies
UNITED KINGDOM – Online
music store CD-WOW has
been ordered to pay
damages to record
companies after it was
found guilty by the UK
...
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China to adhere to WIPO
copyright treaty
CHINA – On 9 June 2007
the People’s Republic of
China will accede to the
WIPO Copyright Treaty
1996. The decision to
join the ...
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Comedian sues Fox over
Family Guy appearance
UNITED STATES –
Texas-born comedian
Carol Burnett has filed
a lawsuit in Los Angeles
against 20th Century Fox
over her portrayal in an
episode ...
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Court of Appeal rules
on computer game
structure
UNITED KINGDOM –
According to the UK
Court of Appeal the
general ideas and
structures behind
computer games and
programs can be copied
so ...
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High Court cracks down
on software sharing
UNITED KINGDOM – An
English mobile phone
engineer that was
discovered to have
illegally shared
software over
peer-to-peer networks
has been ordered by the
...
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Microsoft enters into
the Google Books debate
INTERNATIONAL –
Microsoft, the software
company that is being
sued by Alcatel Lucent
for patent infringement
and Office Live for
trademark infringement
in the ...
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Online radio stations
worried over new rates
UNITED STATES – Internet
music broadcasters are
worried that a recent
ruling by the US
Copyright Royalty Board
of the Library of
Congress could ...
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Patent Office to change
name
UNITED KINGDOM – The UK
Government has taken the
advice of Andrew Gowers
and has decided to
change the name of the
UK Patent ...
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RIAA cuts a deal with
students
UNITED STATES – The US
recording industry’s
trade group, the
Recording Industry
Association of America (RIAA),
has said that it will
give students caught ...
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RIAA opposes Fair Use
bill
UNITED STATES – Two US
congressmen are
attempting to introduce
a fair use bill for
digital copying. The
Freedom and Innovation
Revitalizing US
Entrepreneurship ...
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SpankMaker results in
fisticuffs
UNITED STATES – The
Electronic Frontier
Foundation (EFF) and
Discovery
Communications, Inc. are
currently embroiled in
an argument over an
online template called
the ...
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Stuck in the middle with
YouTube
UNITED STATES – Viacom,
the owner of MTV, has
filed a $1 billion
lawsuit against Google
over its newly-acquired
YouTube service. The
suit, ...
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Who’s in the news
Beijing News Bell-Fruit
Discovery Communications
Electronic Frontier
Foundation FAST Google
IFPI Jones Day Mazooma
Games Microsoft ...
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Yahoo! China sued over
pirate links
CHINA – Eleven music
companies have filed a
lawsuit against Yahoo!
China. The suit, which
was filed in January but
only just accepted by
...
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Case Comment
Fresh air or thick fog?
Proctor & Gamble (“P&G”) owned a registered Community design for the shape of an air freshener canister which featured a trigger-operated top section. P&G brought ...
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Going for a song
The long running case of Peer International Corporation v Termidor Music Publishers Limited and Editora Musical de Cuba (EMC) reached a no-score draw with ...
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Made for sharing?
The appeal judgment of Justice Beeson in HKSARG v Chan Nai Ming [TMCC 1268/2005] (aka “Big Crook” from his online pseudonym) for the moment ...
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Stepping out
In December 2006, for the very first time in Canadian copyright law, the Federal Court of Canada (the “Court”) applied the maximum award of statutory ...
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Who wants to get electing?
Arecent decision of the Court of Appeal, Point Solutions Ltd v Focus Business Solutions Ltd and another [2007] EWCA Civ 14, suggests the possible ...