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Harsh sentence for a South African film hacker

20 November 2008

A man was recently given a suspended sentence and placed under house arrest in South Africa, after police seized 2,500 pirate DVDs from his home.

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Andean Community Decision 486 no longer applicable in Venezuela?

19 November 2008

The Director General of the Venezuelan Trade Marks Office has recently announced in an official notice that Andean Community Decision 486 on a Common Industrial Property Regime does no longer apply in Venezuela.

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US Congress approves Ryan Haight Online Pharmacy Consumer Protection Act

18 November 2008

On 30 September 2008, the US Congress voted in favour of the Ryan Haight Online Pharmacy Consumer Protection Act which specifies stricter rules for online pharmacies.

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Liability of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in Belgium : Sabam v. Scarlet

17 November 2008

On 22 October, the Brussels Court of First Instance ordered Scarlet, a Belgian ISP, to pay Sabam, a Belgian collecting society, a daily penalty from 1 November for every day it continued to allow its subscribers to illegally download copyright-protected items from the internet.

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ACTA Again...

13 November 2008

Initiatives for establishing or reinforcing intellectual property rights such as ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) are still not popular among developing countries.

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