UK bid to ban Tintin book
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A UK racism watchdog calls for a Tintin adventure to be removed from the shelves of a leading bookshop.
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London transport officials have come under fire for banning a poster showing a classic nude painting of Venus on the Underground train system, because it might offend travellers.
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Turning the air blue The inclusion of a paragraph in the bill to nationalise the Northern Rock which exempts the bank from the Freedom of Information Act is completely unacceptable, according to the Tories.â¦
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Arts & entertainment: BBC Radio 1's decision to censor a lyric from  Fairytale of New York looks to have backfired
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Copyright reform unveiled Circumventing DRM to make copies for personal use will remain illegal for consumers, under copyright reform proposals floated by the UK government today.â¦
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"It could damage the prestige of the Crown."  A judge ordered copies of a satirical magazine confiscated Friday for publishing a front-cover cartoon of Spain's Crown Prince Felipe in an intimate bedroom scene with his wife, Princess Letizia, court officials said.The judge also required publishers of the weekly magazine 'El Jueves' to give him the names of the cartoonists, saying their work might amount to libel against the monarchy. Libeling the crown could carry a two-year prison sentence, a National Court spokeswoman said.El Jueves director Albert Monteys Homer called the order 'a direct attack on freedom of expression.' The magazine posted its front-cover image on its Web site Friday, accompanied with a brief message saying it did not understand why the court ordered the week's editions pulled. Read more
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The Confederation of British Industry has launched a blistering attack on proponents of free trade, notably France and Spain, who it said sought to block controversial foreign-backed takeovers.
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Britain's leading scientific institution  said Monday it is urging countries to back a campaign to stop a  possible ban on stem cell research as part of a global treaty  banning human cloning.
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A video game banned in Britain  and Ireland and facing restricted sales in the United States  due to its violent content was a fine piece of art, the game's  publisher said on Wednesday.
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Internet users in Britain who illegally download films and music face being banned from going online, according to leaked government proposals published in The Times on Tuesday.
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Britain&#39;s leading scientific institution said it is urging countries to back a campaign to stop a possible ban on stem cell research as part of a global treaty banning human cloning.
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French ban Calais lorry probes The French have banned Brit border guards at Calais from deploying immigrant-hunting gamma-ray scanners, claiming they breach EU health and safety regulations and can only be used with the intended targets' written permission.â¦
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England's commissioner for children and a civil liberties group have joined in a campaign to ban high-frequency devices intended to drive misbehaving children away from shops and other areas.
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Arts & entertainment: Â· Attack on Bloomsbury for 'profiteering' withdrawnÂ· Stores will sell book as loss leader in price war
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Afghanistan has banned the import and exhibition of "The Kite Runner", a film about the troubled friendship of two Afghan boys, on the grounds that it could incite violence.
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Britain proposed new laws on Tuesday to stop increasingly militant animal rights campaigners from harassing scientists involved in medical experiments.
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The U.K. is looking to change copyright laws that make it illegal to copy music for personal use and for libraries to archive material under copyright.The U.K. Intellectual Property Office, which handles patent and copyright issues, released proposals on Tuesday that would amend the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988. The proposals will be evaluated through April 8.The proposals were taken from a study released in December 2006, the Gowers Review of Intellectual Property, which recommended a raft of changes to U.K. copyright law.The U.K. remains one of the few European countries that still prohibits private copying for personal use. Germany and France, as well as the U.S., have exception in their laws to let someone, for example, make MP3s on their computer from a CD they own, or copy a record to a cassette tape.However, the U.K.&#39;s personal copying law isn&#39;t enforced, and most of the British public are unaware of it, according to the Gowers review. The fact that violators go unpunished &quot;adds to the general sense of illegitimacy around copyright law,&quot; the review said.The proposals would create a limited exception for personal copying. Also, libraries would be allowed to legally make archive copies of material for preservation purposes.The British Library has been in favor of amending some copyright regulations, as it has said parts of its collection are deteriorating, but copyright law prohibits them from making backup copies.The proposals would also make a new exception for material that parodies something under copyright and leeway for schools conducting distance learning activities.