File this under the slow march of justice. A German court just ordered Google to remove certain clauses from its terms of service because they might have given the company the ownership rights in cons...
The European Commission has looked at the Google Books deal and likes what it sees. The EC recently proposes rules for online books that generally mirror Google’s plans for online book registry,...
Does the Google Books deal violate copyright law? Opponents in the US haven't yet gone that far, but that's changed with a filing by the German government in the U.S. case.
Privacy and consumer groups have had enough with Internet companies' promises of self-regulation and want Congress to pass legislation to protect privacy. The coalition - including the Center for ...
s the 2006 ban on Internet gambling Constitutional? Online gaming interests have argued that the federal law is impermissibly vague and violates an individual's privacy rights when gambling in the...
British journalist Bill Thompson argues forcefully against the Google Books settlement. It would grant Google a perpetual monopoly over world literature. Those who won't digitize their own past ar...
The United States is ranked 19th in broadband speeds with an average advertised rate of 9.6 megabytes per second, Compare that to Japan with 92.8 mbps, Korea with 80.8 mbps and France with 51 mbps. Th...
In its stinging rebuke (PDF) of the Google Books settlement, Amazon lays out the full, horrendous ramifications of the deal: it rewrites copyright law, creates a monopoly in perpetutity, short circuit...
The European Commission is extending its probe into the $7.4 million takeover of Sun. Neelie Kroes, the European Union’s competition commissioner, expressed concern about MySQL, the open source...
Microsoft can keep selling Microsoft Word - at least until its appeal of a patent infringement verdict is heard. In a good call, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals stayed a Texas federal court'...
