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India proposes onerous rules on data privacy, security, and responsibility for third-party content

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • India
  • -
  • February 12 2011

India has released draft regulations implementing parts of the Information Technology (Amendment) Act, 2008 dealing with protection of personal information, data security, and responsibility of service providers for IP infringement and publication of "harmful" content

Art, lies, and the DMCA

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 27 2010

Pablo Picasso once said, "Art is a lie that makes us realize truth."

Why block a website when you can own it?

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • February 5 2011

The U.K. government announced on February 1 that it is reconsidering legislation that authorizes the High Court to order Internet service providers to block websites containing copyright-infringing material

Librarian: I heart jailbreakers

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 7 2010

In his fourth triennial rulemaking under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), the Librarian of Congress has delineated six new classes of works that will be exempt from the DMCA's anti-circumvention provision

Batter up! New decree implements France's three strikes law

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • France
  • -
  • August 14 2010

On July 27, the French government published Decree No. 2010-872, which establishes procedures for implementing a controversial "three strikes" Internet piracy law

French court narrows the scope of website immunity

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • France
  • -
  • April 16 2011

In four recently published decisions (L'affaire Clearstream, Le génocide arménien, Les dissimulateurs, and Mondovino), the Paris Court of Appeals has ruled in favor of copyright holders who sued Google's video search site for linking to unauthorized copies of their films

New Yorkers hurt all over

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 2 2011

at least when it comes to online copyright infringement

A second tussle in Brussels over Google news

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • Belgium
  • -
  • May 21 2011

The Belgian Court of Appeal has upheld a lower court’s 2007 ruling in Copiepresse v. Google, affirming that Google’s practice of posting snippets of newspaper articles (along with links to the newspapers’ websites) constituted copyright infringement

Rogue websites and the ITC: new proposed anti-piracy legislation

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 16 2011

The Congressional debate over how best to police online piracy and digital infringement continues

European High Court rules that ISPs do not have to monitor user traffic for illegal downloads

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • December 3 2011

Internet service providers cannot be required to install filtering systems designed to monitor traffic on their networks for copyright-infringing material, according to a decision last month by Europe’s highest court