- Mon Jul 8 2002 Court: Hands off that hyperlink
In a groundbreaking legal decision, a Danish court says a news aggregator must gain permission before linking directly to news stories. Is this a sign of things to come?
- Tue Oct 26 2004 Alleged pirate faces labels in Australian court
Man accused of running free "shop" for 2 terabytes of copyrighted material. Defense lawyer says he just provided hyperlinks.
- Thu Mar 20 2008 FBI posts fake hyperlinks to snare child porn suspects
Agency disseminates hyperlinks purporting to be illegal videos of minors having sex, and then raids the homes of anyone willing to click on them.
- Thu Feb 7 2002 BT preps defense of Web-surfing patent
The U.K. telecommunications giant next week will argue that it holds a patent for a feature that's become ubiquitous on the Net: hyperlinking.
- Thu Mar 14 2002 BT hit with ruling in patent case
British Telecommunications suffers a blow in its bid to charge royalties for hyperlinks when a New York judge hearing a case brought against Prodigy Communications issues a ruling.
- Fri Mar 7 2008 MobiTV threatens suit over link providing free video streams
Can posting a link to a Web page violate copyright and trade secrets law? A streaming-TV service says so, and is threatening to sue HowardForums.com over allowing it to be posted.
- Thu Jul 8 2004 Adobe reveals patent suit
A small software maker claims Acrobat uses its technology.
- Thu Oct 10 1996 ISPs hit with piracy suit
The Software Publishers Association files civil lawsuits against three Internet service providers, alleging that their customers are violating software copyrights.
- Tue Oct 8 1996 ISP plays piracy cop
A Georgia ISP has reluctantly complied with a request from a trade organization to pull a customer's page that allegedly promotes software piracy.
- Wed Feb 13 2002 PayPal, Palm and patents
Legal analyst Doug Isenberg writes that current events only reinforce the importance of patent law to the Internet and to new forms of technology.
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