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A US Appeal Court has ruled that software companies can stop people from ‘re-selling’ their software if the terms of the software licence prohibit such re-sales.

The German Federal Supreme Court has ruled that Google could use and display a thumbnail preview of a picture taken from an artist’s web site, because she had not sent a signal to say that she objected to this.

The Federal Trade Commission has obtained an injunction to stop a US retailer from misleading UK consumers.

Dominion owned the leasehold to a shopping centre and they had an agreement with Debenhams under which Dominion would pay the retailer certain sums of money.

Amicus Legal Ltd has been found to breach the Data Protection Act 1998 after a laptop containing personal data relating to 100,000 customers was stolen.

FDL put together the schedule of football fixtures for English and Scottish premier and football leagues

Omega SA was a Swiss company that manufactured watches for over 150 years. Omega Engineering Inc was an American company that has manufactured products for measurement of temperature and humidity for about 50 years.

The Intellectual Property Office, the public body in charge of reviewing and accepting or rejecting applications to register intellectual property rights in the UK, has announced that it is launching a special patent database of green inventions.

Asda has just launched a new offensive in the supermarket price war with a potentially knock-out salvo.

The CAP Code is being extended to apply to material on organisations’ own websites.

A direct mailing appearing to be a torn magazine page with a personal handwritten post-it note was misleading, according to a ruling from the Advertising Standards Authority.

The CBI have sent an open letter to Chancellor George Osborne stating their concerns about the proposed rise to CGT in the forthcoming emergency budget on 22 June.

The Business Software Alliance - a group representing leading software licensors which collects underpaid licence fees on its members’ behalves – has launched a two month campaign against software piracy in London.

An Argentinian appeal court has overturned a controversial 2008 ruling in which search engines had been made liable for the content of sites to which those search engines provided links in the results to users’ search requests.

Red Sky supplied booking and billing software to a busy hotel, Kingsway Hall. ‘Entirety’ was a standard system, but Kingsway soon had trouble with it.

After more than 600 years, there is no more House of Lords as the highest court in the land, and there are no more Law Lords.

Google has received a stinging attack from leading privacy regulators.

JA Coles – a removal firm – has agreed to pay £2,000 in damages to Getty Images for using a single image of a mother and daughter smiling at each other.

Consumers were delighted to discover that they were able to download albums by top music artists from Amazon for the bargain price of 29p after Amazon had made a pricing error on its web site.