Mod chip seller infringed copyright in game elements, even if not in whole game: “A man who sold computer chips that enabled pirated video games to be played on consoles was rightly convicted of copyright…
The strange death of illegal downloading: “(Guardian) This year is the most successful in the UK’s history for singles sales. More than 117m have been sold ? comfortably beating the previous record of 115.1m, set…
Yaman Akdeniz, an Associate Professor of law at the Faculty of Law, Istanbul Bilgi University today (29 September, 2009) made an appeal to the Beyoglu Criminal Court of Peace to overturn the blocking decision involving…
MÜYAP: No Intention to Block Access to Last FM and MySpace: “MÜYAP chairman Forta claimed: ‘Ownership rights are stolen, we fight for our right. Turkish law blocked access to the websites’. Forta argued that MÜYAP…
Copyright Protection Without Harm to Freedom of Speech: “In the course of the discussion of blocked access to the entire contents of MySpace, RSF pointed out that the Turkish Internet legislation violates the European Convention…
Reporters Sans Frontières: Prosecutors violate online free expression to protect copyright Published on 23 September 2009 The social networking website MySpace has been blocked in Turkey since 19 September over a copyright dispute. Anyone trying…
As of Friday, 18 September, 2009 access to popular social networks Myspace and Last.fm are blocked from Turkey. The blocking order is issued by the Beyoğlu Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office (order no 2009/45 dated 26.06.2009)….
Lily Allen hits out at file sharers as Tories mock government plans: “The battle within the music industry over how to deal with internet pirates intensified today as the Conservatives announced their opposition to government…
Mininova Must Remove all Friggin Torrents: “While few are crying over The Pirate Bay, Mininova is a different case. Mininova has been fighting BREIN, the Dutch copyright authority, but unlike The Pirate Bay, this isn’t…
Oz gov suggests world’s worst copyright protection scheme: “ Desperate to retain internet villain of the year title After taking the prize of internet villain of the year for worst internet blocking proposal on the…