In another anti-piracy case in foreign news this week, anti-piracy group BREIN tried to convice a Dutch court that a usenet group (FTD) that publishes the locations of where copyrighted materials can be (illegally) downloaded is equivalent to publishing the material itself. Torrent Freak reports: … Lawyer Gijsbert Brunt began by outlining how FTD operates. He…
Category: Non-U.S.
IE: Record labels lose file sharing case against UPC (updated)
Ciara O’Brien reports that although the High Court was sympathetic to record labels who are losing money due to illegal file-sharing and downloading, it held that Irish law does not permit enforcement of any “three strikes” rule that would require ISPs to cut off users upon notification by the label companies. Warner Music, Universal Music,…
AU: One man fights town’s security cameras
Michael Duffy reports: NSW’s Shoalhaven City Council has spent more than $25,000 in a legal battle with a man who wants it to remove 18 security cameras from Nowra’s central business district. Former resident Adam Bonner took the matter to the Administrative Decisions Tribunal last week. Mr Bonner opposes closed-circuit TV in public places because…
AU: Privacy revisions present risk for offshore clouds
Brett Winterford reports: Changes to privacy legislation under consideration by the Federal Government should pose serious concerns for businesses embracing cloud computing, according to a leading intellectual property lawyer. A revised Privacy Principle 8, released in an exposure draft [PDF] [see page 17] in June 2010, creates new requirements for organisations outsourcing data that identifies Australian citizens to offshore data…