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“Nature abhors a vacuum” (Aristotle) has been proved to have validity over time. We have all watched the music industry being put to the sword by the illegal downloader’s and some have been surprised by the lack of a coherent response from the content owners and distributors.

 

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Within Europe, music licensing has traditionally been dealt with on a country-by-country basis as individual copyright owners assign the worldwide exploitation rights in their works to their national collecting society, which then licenses copyright works on its members’ behalf. This outdated model has restricted the growth of legal online content distribution, which has driven the problem of illicit filesharing

 

Google has been found not liable for defamatory comments in its automatically generated search results. Metropolitan International Schools Limited (the Claimant) filed defamation proceedings against Designtechnica Corporation (Digital Trends) which operates the website www.digitaltrends.com. The Complainant alleged that two forum threads appearing on Digital Trends'' website contained defamatory comments for which Digital Trends was liable. The Claimant joined Google UK Limited and Google Inc as the second and third defendants on the basis that when certain search terms were entered into the Google search engine, snippets containing the defamatory comments were returned in the search results.

Getty Images, the stock photography agency, has won another litigation dispute over unauthorised use of one of its digital images.    

Getty successfully sued AJ Coles, a London-based removal company, for £2000 after Coles used an image exclusively licensed by Larry Williams to Getty called ''Mother with daughter (6-8) looking at each other and smiling'' on its commercial website without having obtained a license to do so.

 

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Professor Ann Holmes,: Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Law and Social Science / Pro-Vice-Chancellor Manchester Metropolitan University will be in favour of the argument.

 

 

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The mother of Baby P and her boyfriend can be finally identified after a court order is lifted that prevented their names and photographs being publish by the media.

 

The court order was lifted after a ruling made by Mr Justice Coleridge who said it was a necessary move to maintain public confidence in the judicial system. The mother named as Tracey Connelly and the boyfriend Steven Barker, of Penshurst Road in Haringey.

 

Story by Yasser Mahmood.

With thanks to the Guardian.

 

The mother of Gary McKinnon said today she welcomed comments from the Welsh secretary, Peter Hain, suggesting he would rather the computer hacker were tried in the UK than extradited to America.

Hain is the first cabinet minister since Friday''s high court ruling in favour of extradition to express his disquiet at the prospect of McKinnon, who has Asperger''s syndrome, facing a potentially lengthy jail term in the US.

In a landmark decision on Australian copyright law, the High Court recently overturned a decision of the Full Federal Court and unanimously held that IceTV had not infringed the Nine Network’s copyright in its television schedules.