copyright

Government abandons plans for website blocking legislation

by Kenny Hemphill on 3 August 2011 in News

The Government has abandoned plans to use the Digital Economy Act to introduce legislation to allow websites to be blocked by ISPs if they infringe copyright.

Business Secretary, Vince Cable, said that the Government was ‘looking at other ways of achieving the same objective, the blocking objective to protect intellectual property in those cases, but in a way that’s legally sound.’

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Non-stick plan

by Adam Banks on 15 April 2011 in Editorial

Ed Vaizey, this week’s minister for everything beginning with C, has a cunning plan. Ed often has cunning plans. Last autumn, he had a cunning plan to support net neutrality by making a speech saying internet service providers (ISPs) ought to be allowed to ditch net neutrality. In December, he had a cunning plan to [...]

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ISPs win file sharing judicial review

by Simon Aughton on 11 November 2010 in News
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BT and Talk Talk have won the right to take the Digital Economy Act to court.

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Apple fails in bid to ban jailbreaks

by Simon Aughton on 27 July 2010 in News
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The US Copyright Office has rejected Apple’s call for a ban on jailbreaking — hacking iOS in order to install unapproved software and use unsupported networks on an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. Apple had objected to an application by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) asking the Copyright Office to allow jailbreaking under US Digital Millennium [...]

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Crime and punishment

by Adam Banks on 13 May 2010 in One More Thing

The government seeks to protect copyright by coming down hard on infringers, but surely a more flexible approach would be better for everyone… Nobody was shocked when the Secretary of State for Business announced three strikes. There could be a lot more than that by the end of the winter. As it turned out, though, [...]

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