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US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales submitted the Intellectual Property Protection Act of 2007 to Congress on Monday, legislation meant to strengthen current copyright laws and provide harsher penalties for counterfeiters. The new measure would...

The European Parliament Legal Affairs Committee Thursday adopted a report on draft legislation designed to curtail increases in design piracy by imposing criminal penalties on commercial-scale IP infringement. The committee cited alleged links...

A Somali advocacy group claimed Monday that the US Navy was illegally present in Somali waters when its ships launched an unprovoked attack on a small vessel over the weekend, taking twelve occupants into custody. The Navy said the...

Leading Monday's international brief, the Sudanese government has criticized a UN High Commissioner for Human Rights report released last Friday which sharply condemned the human rights condition in Darfur . Jamal Mohamed Ibrahim,...

The US Department of Justice has submitted a body of proposed laws to Congress that would strengthen federal intellectual property enforcement, US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announced Thursday during remarks at an anti-piracy meeting in...

The US Sentencing Commission has authorized emergency rules increasing penalties for persons convicted of swapping as-yet-unreleased films over peer-to-peer file sharing networks such as Kazaa and Morpheus. The emergency regulations, which supplement the current guidelines [PDF...

An Iraqi official has confirmed that the draft Iraqi constitution will be sent to printers Thursday so that almost 5 million copies of the draft can be printed and distributed to citizens in advance...

Universal Music Australia Pty Ltd v. Sharman License Holdings Ltd, Federal Court of Australia, September 5, 2005 [ruling that internet music file-sharing service Kazaa violates artists' copyrights by allowing its more than 100 million users to swap pirated digital music...

The Federal Court in Australia ruled Monday that internet music filing sharing service Kazaa violates artists' copyrights by allowing its more than 100 million users to swap pirated digital music files over the internet. While...

The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) said Friday that their first legal battle against Internet file-sharers has been a success. BPI issued their statement after 23 people paid a cumulative sum of £50,000 in an out-of-court settlement. Of...