Blanket license considered harmful - societies chief
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We can't legalize P2P CISAC The first collective license for music was conceived almost a century ago, and their heirs - all the world's collection societies - met for a Copyright Summit in Brussels this week.â¦
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'There has to be a limit to police powers' Analysis The Nuffield Council on Bioethics has condemned the retention of "innocent" DNA on the National Database as unjustifed and unethical with "overtones of a police state".â¦
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A cloning scientist yesterday rejected accusations that his work was exploitative, unsafe and socially unacceptable. Panayiotis Zavos, of the Centre for Reproductive Medicine in Lexington, Kentucky, claims
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Ziff Davis - Opinion: eWEEK.com Senior Editor Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols thinks although there will be a bitter battle, there's no way around it: The GPL must be revised.
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ROME - The United States' new biometric system of border controls violates civil rights without delivering security, the head of the London-based civil liberties watchdog Privacy International warned Friday. The system involves a "wholesale and aggressive violation" of privacy but was also likely to generate errors and eventually collapse under its own weight, Privacy International Director Simon Davies said.
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Comment is free: Will Hutton: The government must act firmly to control an industry that destabilises all our lives with its naked pursuit of huge profits
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Computer-generated child abuse images and cartoons should be banned, Home Secretary John Reid has said.
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Watchdog cries foul over 'dodgy' software auctions The Business Software Alliance (BSA) has begun an international clampdown against people selling illegitimate software online.â¦
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In a letter issued yesterday to US Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman Deborah Platt Majoras, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry Waxman took issue with the findings of an FTC staff report issued last July, suggesting that P2P file-sharing use may only be as dangerous as any other form of Internet activity.
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The US Librarian of Congress is recommending that Congress officially recognize that engineering intended to expose flaws in DRM schemes on audio CDs to be non-infringing. Soon, the type of work engineers like Mark Russinovich and Ed Felten performed to expose DRM flaws, will be protected by law.
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Not since SCO has there been a company so reviled by the open source community as Novell following its deal with Microsoft.  Already there are some clear signs of the negative effects of that anger: senior coders have left the company; Novell has posted a loss for the most recent quarter; and there are calls for a boycott of Novell products â to say nothing of imminent changes to the GNU GPL that might well nullify the entire Novell-Microsoft deal.  Some people are rubbing their hands in glee at the thought of Novell crashing and burning completely, but such a development could actually turn out to be one of the worst things to happen to free software.
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Stop and question powers are 'unnecessary and counterproductive', say MPs and liberties groups.
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&quot;This is really going to hurt the online Indian community,&quot; Toronto-based attorney Javad Heydary, editor of Lawsof.com, said.
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Would a European Commission decision cause the software maker "great harm"?
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Business & money: Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors suggests loophole in rules means that homeowners could avoid providing a pack.
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Business & money: Performers and labels attack government's decision not to extend protection beyond 50 years.
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WASHINGTON, June 20  /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Statement by Jeffrey Sandman, spokesperson for the Safe and Secure Internet Gambling Initiative, on how the European Union's request for compensation from the U.S. for banning non-U.S.