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IP: is MegaUpload the most important case you've never heard of?

It's perhaps the biggest intellectual property rights enforcement case in the history of such cases. And yet, unless you are young and tech savvy, the chances are that you've never heard of it. But if you are an internet user, the action against file-sharing site MegaUpload is going to rock your world. You just don't know it yet.



How Not To Be A Money Launderer : Cover

How Not To Be A Money Launderer, a straightforward guide to detecting and deterring fraud and money laundering in organisations, has been reissued in paperback.


 
Intellectual Property: how going viral changes legal to illegal with parade parody

When the organisers of Singapore's National Day parade wrote a spoof on the Lady Gaga song "Bad Romance" they did n...

IP: Aus police raise question over re-use of photos from Facebook

When journalist Ben Grubb, employed by Fairfax Media, one of Australia's two dominant print media chains, attended a conference about on-line security and received evidence of the ease with which...

Intellectual Property: Microsoft tries to squash Android

Microsoft says ""The Android platform infringes a number of Microsoft's patents, and companies manufacturing and shipping Android devices must respect our intellectual property rights....

IP: US based industry group settles action with German seller of grey-imports

The Software and Information Industry Association is using hard spin in its media release but the real story is not the one their language implies.

Law: English tribunal says social postings are not private

It might seem a masterly statement of the obvious but now it's a quasi-legal principle, too: what you tweet is in the public domain in all senses of the word.

Intellectual Property: US PTO on the verge of an outstanding error of judgement

American intellectual property laws are already scorned in many quarters but that does not prevent the US Patent and Trademark Office making ever more ridiculous grants. The latest is to be on tr...

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