Europe demands IT import duty rethink

The Wall Street Journal reports that a UK High court Judge has invalidated Qualcomm's claim that Nokia, the world's largest mobile phone manufacturer, infringe over some of its patents. The case was initially filed by the US...

Artists like Lily Allen and Bob Dylan are features on Qtrax, the latest legal P2P service that apparently offers up to 25 million songs online. The service was supposed to be launched at midnight EST (i.e. early this morning)...

He writes: It appears I can't attend Blackhat this year. I was denied entry to the US for carrying trainings materials for the Blackhat trainings, and intending to hold these trainings as a private citizen instead of as a...

Electronic invoicing is underused across the EU due to technical complexity, legal uncertainty and operational constraints, according to a European Commission task force. A new e-invoicing framework could cut business supply...

Earlier this week, we reported that Zango had backed off its case against PC Tools.Now, Zango’s court case against Kaspersky was thrown out because Kaspersky enjoys immunity as a result of the Communications Decency Act. You can...

Digg, one of the websites at the forefront of the user-generated content movement, has chosen to open itself to legal risk rather than incur the wrath of its users over controversial anti-piracy code.Digg works by ranking news...

Digg.com, a useful blogging and `look at this' Web portal, has got itself into potential hot water over its apparent refusal to remove references to stories that include an HD-DVD protection decryption code.According to newswire...

A controversial 1998 US anti-pornography law that has been opposed since the moment it was signed has been struck down in a federal court. The Children's Online Protection Act (COPA) has been deemed unconstitutional.COPA imposed...

A US court has withdrawn its controversial recent opinion that viewing child pornography is legal as long as it is not intentionally saved. The judge had said there was ambiguity in the law over what constitutes "knowing...

The Government will not back a change to the UK's E-commerce Regulations which would give greater legal protection to search engines and other intermediaries. The Government says that changes should be left to a European...

Google appears to be filtering some of its Web searches, but not for the reasons you might think.The giant Web search operation is now flagging up warning pages whenever its searches reveal a potential malware-ridden Web site.The...

FEATURE: A Belgian court ruled against Google’s use of newspaper stories in early September. If you believe Google, it did nothing wrong and failed to defend itself because it was unaware of the publishers’ lawsuit. If you...

The UK Government faces a legal challenge to its brand new employment legislation. A pressure group is challenging the fact that the Act allows employers to permit mandatory retirement ages in contracts.Heyday, an organisation...

Apple's request that its submission to Scandinavian consumer rights regulators be kept secret is being reviewed and could be declined. The Californian computer firm is fighting to prevent a ban on its market-leading iTunes music...

The file sharing network has been locked in battle with the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the UK's International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) for a number of years. The agreement settles...