A divided U.S. Supreme Court earlier this week suggested that a federal law designed to restrict Internet pornography violated Americans' rights to freedom of speech, but the court stopped short of a definitive ruling striking down the law as unconstitutional.
Telstra was in the Federal Court last week to fight having to pay an employee's two fees for making an emergency call on a public holiday.
When legal wrangling turns serious and lawyers send corporate IT departments a barrage of emails looking for information to use as evidence in an upcoming trial, the IT geeks often aren't up to the challenge.
The creators of PornoTube, a pornographic video sharing site, have been sued by US adult-film company Vivid Entertainment for infringing copyright by allowing users to illegally post clips from its films.
The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) said it has filed suit against two companies for allegedly violating the General Public Licence, which covers usage of Linux and thousands of other free and open source products.
Australian telecoms is increasingly resembling the US during Prohibition, with Telstra as Al Capone and the ACCC as Eliot Ness.
Will new business models cut down the amount of people breaking the law, reduce the market for pirates and remove the need for litigation?
Virtually everyone in the telecommunications industry has their say in the Senate Standing Committee's public hearing into the pending legislation to split up Telstra, in this week's Twisted Wire podcast.
Facebook's answer as to why it removed vigilante groups that had posted details about accused fire-bug Brendan Sokaluk smells of fear that it may be as responsible as media for content published on its network.
Termination of file-sharing internet users' accounts is coming up for New Zealanders again.
As legal battles heat up over who owns the rights to the operating system, the company that claims ownership of the Unix name says Apple is infringing its trademark.
Twitter coverage of the AFACT vs. iiNet trial is breathing new life into court reporting. Why don't we as a society take the next step and stream it all live to the internet, video and audio?
The landmark ruling of RACV Insurance Pty Ltd v Unisys Australia Pty Ltd (2001) helps to clarify the duties which are owed by software providers to their customers.
CEO Stuart Cohen talks about OSDL's efforts to head off patent claims against the community-developed operating system.
Several organisations argue that SCO's shipment of a Linux product undermines its current attack on the operating system's intellectual-property underpinnings, but SCO says the argument is baseless.
Commentary: SCO's lawsuit against IBM has sparked controversy in the open-source world - here are some things for Linux users to consider.
America Online has quietly secured a patent that could shake up the competitive landscape for instant messaging software.
The software giant is phasing out standalone versions of its Internet Explorer Web browser, according to statements attributed to IE's program manager on its Web site.
Can a T-shirt break the law? Copyleft, the maker of a popular T-shirt displaying code to a DVD-cracking program, is added to a high-profile piracy lawsuit.
The latest lawsuit against Intel could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars and eventually have an impact on every PC maker that uses Pentium processors.
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Google CEO Eric Schmidt
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