Google releases data on piracy, takes copyright infringement pretty seriously
Fri, 25 May 2012 10:01:35 -0700

We've already gotten a detailed look into Google's response to government requests for personal data -- but it turns out the search-engine giant spends a lot of time protecting intellectual property, as well. Each month, Google removes more than 1 ...

Copyright Can't Block Software Reverse Engineering: Court
Wed, 02 May 2012 02:12:06 -0700

SAS Institute Inc., the world's biggest closely held software company, lost a bid at the EU Court of Justice to extend copyright protection to the functions of a computer program. World Programming Ltd. infringed SAS's copyright by developing a system ...

Analysis of the Indian Copyright (Amendment) Bill 2012
Fri, 25 May 2012 09:34:58 -0700

Without this, even if any person can facilitate access for persons with disabilities to copyrighted works, those works are restricted to those that are circulated in India. Given that not many books are converted into accessible formats in India (not ...

Kingsoft Announces 2012 First Quarter Results
Thu, 24 May 2012 07:54:13 -0700

Hong Kong, May 24, 2012 (ACN Newswire via COMTEX) -- Kingsoft Corporation Limited ("Kingsoft" or the "Company"; SEHK: 3888), a leading entertainment software , Internet security and application software developer, distributor and service provider in the ...

Oracle gets a chance to rewrite software law
Mon, 07 May 2012 13:13:31 -0700

It's putting to the test the notion that application programming interfaces -- APIs -- can be copyrighted . In a partial verdict today, a jury gave Oracle a hard-fought "yes" when US District Judge William Alsup asked them, "As to the compilable code ...

Stonesoft appoints Jarno Limnell as Director, Cyber Security
Thu, 24 May 2012 01:02:57 -0700

Helsinki, Finland- 24 May - Mr. Jarno Limnell has been appointed as Director, Cyber Security at Stonesoft Corporation. Mr. Limnell's main areas of responsibility will be the definition of the cyber security and cyber security domain from Stonesoft's ...

News of 'Rickroll' meme death greatly exaggerated
Thu, 24 May 2012 14:00:26 -0700

In what seemed to be a repeat of the great "Hitler Reacts" You Tube takedown of 2010, an original version of Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" video used to Rickroll Web denizens was removed from You Tube on the grounds of copyright infringement.

Software copyright violations fall to 81%
Thu, 17 May 2012 22:15:28 -0700

Ha noi viet Nam recorded a PC software piracy rate of 81 per cent last year, a reduction of 2 per cent for two years in a row, compared to 83 per cent in 2010 and 85 per cent in 2009. This was according to statistics released in a press briefing ...

Why A Cyber Security Bill Will Pass
Wed, 23 May 2012 21:35:24 -0700

This isn't just the view from Washington; it is also the view from Moscow and Paris cyber security officials in government and in the private sector. Cyberspace is crucial for social and economic development and we are getting to a point where attacks ...

Alarming Trend of Cybersecurity Breaches and Failures in the US Government
Thu, 24 May 2012 13:23:56 -0700

The Commerce Department accidentally posted personally identifiable information and Social Security numbers on its website, and did not notify employees until seven weeks after the fact.[9] 8. Secretary of Commerce December 2007. Spying software was ...

Programming languages can't have copyright protection , EU court rules
Wed, 02 May 2012 06:55:04 -0700

By Jennifer Baker IDG News Service - Europe's top court ruled Wednesday that the functionality of a computer program and the programming language it is written in cannot be protected by copyright . The European Court of Justice made the decision in ...

Kingsoft Announces 2012 First Quarter Results
Thu, 24 May 2012 22:05:12 -0700

Hong Kong, May 24, 2012 - ( ACN Newswire ) - Kingsoft Corporation Limited ("Kingsoft" or the "Company"; SEHK: 3888), a leading entertainment software , Internet security and application software developer, distributor and service provider in the PRC, ...

If You Can Copyright an API, What Else Can You Copyright ?
Tue, 15 May 2012 03:31:55 -0700

By Cade Metz Oracle's Larry Ellison says APIs can copyrighted and that raises questions across the computer industry. Photo: Oracle Sometimes, says Brian Pagano, it looks like this: /users. Or this: /products. Brian Pagano is a software architect at ...

Courts put software in danger with copyright confusion, says expert
Wed, 16 May 2012 08:24:34 -0700

OPINION: Software is at the heart of all our lives, both at work and at home. But if courts are not more careful about how they treat it, they could end up making it nearly impossible to make any new software at all. 16 May 2012 Recent rulings by two ...

Balancing IP Protection with Free Speech, Innovation and Online Economy Key to ...
Wed, 16 May 2012 03:11:13 -0700

IQPC's Anti-Piracy and Content Protection Summit brings together stakeholders from the film, TV, music, software and gaming industries to benchmark and develop best practices in the fight against global content piracy Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) May 16, ...

Research and Markets: Intellectual Property Law: Commercial, Creative and ...
Wed, 16 May 2012 05:04:51 -0700

Separate sections for each type of intellectual property examine what can be protected, the requirements for protection , the intellectual property owner's rights, limitations on those rights and the standards for establishing infringement.

New unskippable copyright warnings coming to Blu-ray discs
Thu, 10 May 2012 11:33:35 -0700

Fans of being treated like copyright violators will enjoy new measures being taken to protect movies from piracy. There will now be two ten-second warnings before your movie starts, and no, you can't skip them. It seems that Immigration & Customs ...

Google Seeks New Trial In Oracle Fight
Wed, 09 May 2012 12:10:58 -0700

The jury found that Google had infringed on some of Oracle's copyrighted Java APIs, though not to the extent that Oracle had hoped. But the jurors were unable to agree on whether Google's use of Java in its Android operating system was permissible fair ...

Copyright Protection for APIs
Mon, 14 May 2012 12:25:25 -0700

by Field Law on 5/14/2012 As a follow-up to our earlier article (SDKs and APIs: Do they have copyright protection ?), the jury in the Oracle v. Google lawsuit issued a decision last week that Google's Android software infringed copyright in the overall ...

Nokia, Motorola Mobility, Stichting: Intellectual Property
Wed, 02 May 2012 21:22:35 -0700

The patents in the new round of litigation cover hardware inventions for dual-function antennas, power management and multimode radios, and software features including application stores, multitasking, navigation, conversational message display, ...