Court ruling questions SCO copyright claims

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US gov questions EC MS ruling

US gov questions EC MS ruling 06/08/2004 04:21 AM
History may judge it 'foolish'

Canadian ISPs win on copyright ruling

Canadian ISPs win on copyright ruling 06/30/2004 05:35 PM
Court says service providers aren't responsible for cached copies of music on their servers.

Important Copyright Ruling Favors
Freedom

Important Copyright Ruling Favors
Freedom 08/19/2004 02:53 PM
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit has upheld the Grokster decision, in which a peer-to-peer file-sharing service was ruled not to be violating copyright law. In that decision, a federal judge ruled, essentially, that a product that has legitimate uses can't be deemed illegal because some people use it for unlawful purposes. The appeals panel's ruling (PDF) makes vital points including these:

"The Copyright Owners urge a re-examination of the law in the light of what they believe to be proper public policy, expanding exponentially the reach of the doctrines of contributory and vicarious copyright infringement. Not only would such a renovation conflict with binding precedent, it would be unwise. Doubtless, taking that step would satisfy the Copyright Owners' immediate economic aims. However, it would also alter general copyright law in profound ways with unknown ultimate consequences outside the present context. Further, as we have observed, we live in a quicksilver technological environment with courts ill-suited to fix the flow of internet innovation. AT&T Corp. v. City of Portland, 216 F.3d 871, 876 (9th Cir. 1999). The introduction of new technology is always disruptive to old markets, and particularly to those copyright owners whose works are sold through well established distribution mechanisms. Yet, history has shown that time and market forces often provide equilibrium in balancing interests, whether the new technology be a player piano, a copier, a tape recorder, a video recorder, a personal computer, a karaoke machine, or an MP3 player. Thus, it is prudent for courts to exercise caution before restructuring liability theories for the purpose of addressing specific market abuses, despite their apparent present magnitude."

This is an important ruling, and let's hope its logic spreads widely. (Via Michael Geist via Interesting People.)

SCO has infringed OUR copyright, claims
IBM

SCO has infringed OUR copyright, claims
IBM 08/21/2004 04:39 PM
Personal Computer World Aug 21 2004 8:48PM GMT

Email chancer claims copyright on @

Email chancer claims copyright on @ 08/17/2004 09:37 AM
Updated Using @ regularly? Better cough up, then

The Market Age claims copyright on
"Gmail"

The Market Age claims copyright on
"Gmail" 04/09/2004 04:06 PM
Google in trademark fight for Gmail.

German Man Claims to Hold @ Copyright

German Man Claims to Hold @ Copyright 08/19/2004 03:14 PM
theWHIR Aug 19 2004 6:56PM GMT

Linus Torvalds Refutes SCO Copyright
Claims

Linus Torvalds Refutes SCO Copyright
Claims 12/23/2003 12:26 AM

McKusick on SCO's latest copyright
claims

McKusick on SCO's latest copyright
claims 12/29/2003 01:33 PM
NewsForge asked longtime Unix and BSD guru Kirk McKusick, who has intimate knowledge of the original AT&T versus BSD legal battles over Unix source code in the early 1990s, to comment on SCO's recent claims of copyright infringement in Linux. McKusick says he believes Torvalds when he says he did not copy the files in question, but notes that may be not the real issue here. McKusick also questions whether the GPL license could applied to the code even if the requisite copyright notices had appeared.

SCO Sues Novell over Unix Copyright
Claims (NewsFactor)

SCO Sues Novell over Unix Copyright
Claims (NewsFactor) 01/22/2004 02:12 AM
NewsFactor - The SCO Group has filed suit against Novell (Nasdaq: NOVL), alleging that its claims of ownership of the Unix operating system are false and have caused irreparable harm to SCO's business.

Paper Casts Doubts on SCO's Copyright
Claims

Paper Casts Doubts on SCO's Copyright
Claims 02/10/2004 06:40 PM
Columbia Univesity law professor and Free Software Foundation general counsel Eben Moglen, points out that SCO's copyright woes could make it almost impossible for SCO to go after Linux users.

Novell applies for Unix SystemV code
copyright ,which Sco claims ownership
,and

Novell applies for Unix SystemV code
copyright ,which Sco claims ownership
,and 12/22/2003 04:15 PM

EU court to review MCI ruling

EU court to review MCI ruling 09/09/2004 12:31 PM
BRUSSELS -- The European Union's (E.U.'s) Court of First Instance will rule on Sept. 28 whether the European Commission had the right to block the aborted merger between U.S. telecommunications giant MCI Inc. (formerly WorldCom Inc.) and Sprint Corp.

Longhorn Threatened By Court Ruling

Longhorn Threatened By Court Ruling 04/15/2005 09:45 AM
TechWeb Apr 15 2005 1:36PM GMT

Court Issues Age Discrimination Ruling
(AP)

Court Issues Age Discrimination Ruling
(AP) 03/30/2005 02:05 PM
AP - The Supreme Court made it easier Wednesday for any worker over 40 to allege age discrimination, ruling that employers can be held liable even if they never intended any harm.

Court issues new barrier ruling

Court issues new barrier ruling 07/01/2004 10:47 AM
Israel's High Court issues a temporary order stopping construction of a section of the West Bank barrier.

Top court supports Raytheon in ruling

Top court supports Raytheon in ruling 12/03/2003 01:46 AM
Boston Globe Dec 3 2003 1:01AM ET

RIAA stung by court ruling

RIAA stung by court ruling 12/22/2003 05:37 AM
Silicon.com Dec 22 2003 4:45AM ET

Sex.com ruling upheld by Court of
Appeals

Sex.com ruling upheld by Court of
Appeals 04/05/2005 06:42 AM
Game over

Court makes right-to-die case ruling

Court makes right-to-die case ruling 06/01/2004 08:22 PM

Court backs off pro-spam ruling

Court backs off pro-spam ruling 05/13/2004 03:16 PM
A California federal court dissolved a restraining order against SpamCop.net, one day after issuing an order preventing the antispam service from warning ISPs about complaints of unsolicited commercial ("spam") e-mail coming from their networks.

German Court Sets Copyright Tax on New
PCs

German Court Sets Copyright Tax on New
PCs 01/01/2005 06:38 AM
Slashdot Jan 1 2005 11:15AM GMT

Australian Supreme Court Looks At
Copyright Law

Australian Supreme Court Looks At
Copyright Law 09/14/2004 12:29 PM
The Supreme Court in Australia is now taking a look at their version of the DMCA to see if people have the right to modify hardware they've bought or to make backup copies of digital media they purchased. In the old, pre-digital world, when you bought a product, it was yours to do whatever you wanted with it. However, thanks to recent law changes, any product that involves a digital component seems much closer to a rental agreement, where the company that "sold" you the product retains some sort of rights. For obvious reasons, many people think this is unfair. In this particular case, Sony went after a mod-chip trader, claiming that the mod-chips he offered for the Playstation violated copyright law by letting users play copied games, thereby violating anti-circumvention rules in Australian law. It really becomes a question of whether or not certain companies have the right to have their business models protected by regulations, rather than forcing them to keep up with the changing marketplace.

Pinochet May Face First Trial After
Court Ruling

Pinochet May Face First Trial After
Court Ruling 01/04/2005 03:28 PM
Reuters via Wired News Jan 4 2005 6:40PM GMT

Tobacco giants hail court ruling

Tobacco giants hail court ruling 02/05/2005 09:52 PM
US tobacco companies applaud an appeal court decision rejecting a $280bn claim by the government.

Microsoft Longhorn Could Be Threatened
By Court Ruling

Microsoft Longhorn Could Be Threatened
By Court Ruling 04/17/2005 01:27 AM
Techzonez Apr 17 2005 5:03AM GMT

Vatican Theologian Slams U.S. Court Gay
Ruling

Vatican Theologian Slams U.S. Court Gay
Ruling 11/19/2003 11:40 AM
Reuters via Wired News Nov 19 2003 10:27AM ET

Google Asks Court for Ruling on
Trademarks

Google Asks Court for Ruling on
Trademarks 12/04/2003 10:45 PM
Yahoo! Dec 4 2003 10:07PM ET

Lindows wins in US court Microsoft
ruling

Lindows wins in US court Microsoft
ruling 02/11/2004 09:44 AM
Silicon.com Feb 11 2004 2:15PM GMT

Court grants FCC extension on cable
ruling

Court grants FCC extension on cable
ruling 11/19/2003 06:53 PM
CNET Nov 19 2003 6:16PM ET

The appeals court ruling and what
Congress meant

The appeals court ruling and what
Congress meant 03/23/2005 10:19 AM
Applying the law Congress passed rather than the one Tom DeLay wanted, judges on the 11th Circuit reject a request to order the re-insertion of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube.

Court ruling sparks Microsoft-EU spat

Court ruling sparks Microsoft-EU spat 04/29/2004 08:24 PM
MSNBC Apr 30 2004 0:48AM GMT

Google Seeks Court Ruling on Keywords

Google Seeks Court Ruling on Keywords 12/08/2003 11:44 AM
Yahoo! Dec 8 2003 10:54AM ET

Google asks U.S. court for ruling on
trademarks

Google asks U.S. court for ruling on
trademarks 12/05/2003 11:24 AM
Search Engine Lowdown Dec 5 2003 10:36AM ET

Court Ruling May Not Hinder Music Theft
(AP)

Court Ruling May Not Hinder Music Theft
(AP) 03/30/2005 09:36 AM
AP - Even if entertainment companies win their Supreme Court battle for new authority to protect movies and music on the Internet, lawyers say it won't be easy to shut down the decentralized computer links used to trade songs and films.

Appeals court upholds Sex.com ruling
(USATODAY.com)

Appeals court upholds Sex.com ruling
(USATODAY.com) 04/01/2005 06:52 AM
USATODAY.com - A federal appeals court last week may have written the final chapter to a sordid legal saga that helped establish Internet domain names as property. Stephen Cohen's appeal of a 2001 federal court ruling that he pay businessman Gary Kremen $65 million for stealing the domain name Sex.com was rejected.

Microsoft Statement on U.S. Court of
Appeals Ruling

Microsoft Statement on U.S. Court of
Appeals Ruling 07/01/2004 10:33 AM
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Wednesday issued a unanimous, six-judge ruling affirming Microsoft Corp.’s settlement and final judgment with the U.S. Department of Justice and 18 state attorneys general.

Is appeals court ruling on Microsoft the
end of the fight?

Is appeals court ruling on Microsoft the
end of the fight? 07/01/2004 05:20 PM
While Massachusetts could still fight yesterday’s U.S. Court of Appeals decision backing the settlement of the antitrust case against Microsoft, legal experts say the state’s prospects for success are remote.

Court Ruling in Europe Could Affect
Microsoft

Court Ruling in Europe Could Affect
Microsoft 04/29/2004 11:16 PM
The European Court of Justice drew a legal line in the sand on the circumstances under which a dominant company must license its intellectual property for use by rivals.
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