A House committee takes the first step toward a rewrite of US copyright law.

The U.S. government lost a bid on Thursday to withhold some evidence in advance of the extradition hearing for four Megaupload defendants charged with criminal copyright infringement.

The parliament followed the recommendations of five of its committees that had examined the treaty.

The judge's ruling holds that the Java APIs in Android are not covered by copyright, though it does not extend to all APIs.

But the jury was deadlocked on the question of fair use.

The jurors will be given until Monday to try to agree on one final copyright issue.

The issue at hand is whether storage providers are liable for secondary criminal copyright infringement.

So far, strong opposition to the copyright bills hasn't changed many minds.

General monitoring of consumer Internet traffic is prohibited by the EU law and violates civil rights, the European Court of Justice said.

The start of the trial in Oracle's lawsuit against Google over alleged Java copyright and patent violations in the Android mobile OS could be delayed, according to a judge's ruling issued Monday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

A U.S. Senate committee has unanimously approved a controversial bill that would allow the U.S. Department of Justice to seek court orders requiring search engines and Internet service providers to stop sending traffic to websites accused of infringing copyright.

Three men found guilty of being accessories to crimes against copyright law for their part in running The Pirate Bay have lost their appeal, while a fourth man still awaits trial.

Sikertelenül fellebbeztek, a bíróság helyben hagyta az ítéletet, miszerint illegálisan osztottak meg szerzői jog védelme alatt álló tartalmakat. Még hátra van a legfelsőbb bíróság.

Three men found guilty of being accessories to crimes against copyright law for their part in running The Pirate Bay have lost their appeal, while a fourth man still awaits trial.

Novell's copyrights for the Unix operating system will remain under Attachmate's control as part of the companies' pending merger, a Novell spokesman said Wednesday.

SAP has admitted to the "massive and prolonged" infringement of Oracle's copyrights and should pay at least US$1.7 billion in damages, an Oracle attorney said Monday as the companies' corporate theft lawsuit entered its final stages.

The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee has approved a controversial bill that would allow the government to seek court orders to shut down websites offering materials believed to infringe copyright.

A TNS nyilvánosságra hozta a Microsoft megbízásából készült felmérését, amelyben világszerte több mint 38 ezer felhasználót kérdeztek meg a hamisított szoftverekkel kapcsolatos véleményükről és tapasztalataikról idén ősszel.

Negotiators working on a controversial international copyright-enforcement agreement have finalized the language in the proposed pact, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative said Monday.

Third parties, not Google, would be liable for any Java copyright violations in the Android mobile OS, according to a filing the vendor made Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.