Tag Archives : intellectual property

Just over a month after its death decreed by the U.S. Justice – for allowing and encouraging users to infringe the intellectual property laws – LimeWire is back. The file-sharing program is now in the hands of a development team that, for obvious reasons, prefers to remain anonymous. On his return, the software is now called LimeWire Pirate [...]

The content-sharing program, LimeWire, had its death decreed by the federal courts of the United States after being found guilty of allowing and encouraging users to infringe the intellectual property laws. The decision is final, is the latest chapter of a case brought by the RIAA – the association of eight major U.S. record labels – and [...]

Bloggers may need to be wary as Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has collaborated with iCopyright, the American copyright bounty hunters used by the Associated Press. Now they plan to offer licenses in order to quote CBC articles on the web. While this may be a warning to people who just use lines from websites in order to quote in an article, it foresees [...]

Apple faces the prospect of having to pay up to $ 1 billion to Nokia, the biggest cellphone manufacturer in the world, for the use of the technology of the Finland’s company in all iPhones sold so far, if Apple lose a lawsuit filed by Nokia, analysts say . Nokia filed the lawsuit in the United States on Thursday, claiming that Apple had infringed [...]

Major negotiating camps in the upcoming climate deal are lapsing into ‘a new and dangerous form of trade and technology protectionism’ in the name of climate change. The unfortunate turn of events is ‘poisoning North-South relations in the two negotiating arenas on climate change and on trade.’ It seems that developed countries, especially [...]

Yesterday it was commemorated thoroughly around of the world the 40th Internet’s birthday. In this same site, an article was published in which the reader could see as the internet developed and the current problems that it faces: tyrannical governments, attacks, virus and the greed of the corporations that threaten more and more the individual freedom. And, [...]

There are some common mistakes in instituting an employee monitoring system. It is a given that organizations should implement an effective and comprehensive employee monitoring program that is replete with logical components. The biggest mistake that business organizations commit in this regard is not creating a company policy on it. Often, employee [...]

There may not be an ethical issue involved in employee monitoring. The workplace is considered to be some sort of a public place, not a private sanctuary. When the barrier of privacy is broken down between employer and employee, the ultimate goal can only be the benefit of employee productivity. Ask any employer about this issue and he is bound to [...]

Infringement of intellectual property rights has been rampant on the Internet through online sales. Imitation of high-tech products have grown in volume. The number of fake fashion labels (clothing, leather goods, watches, perfumes, cosmetics), as well as fake mobile phones, MP3 players, software, and storage media has increased by way more than 100 [...]

Cybercrime costs a cool one trillion dollars worldwide. A new study from McAfee said that data theft and other offenses related to the World Wide Web have debilitated business at that staggering amount. Costs are due to the loss of intellectual property (IP) and expenses for the repair of damage. The study is based on responses to a survey of over [...]