Emsie Ferreira reports: The contentious Protection of Information Bill is heading for a redraft to narrow its scope, but the new version will not see the light this year, MPs said on Friday. Parliament’s ad hoc committee processing the bill agreed to take as a starting point for a new draft, proposals by State Security…
Month: October 2010
German court sets file sharing damages at €15, not €300
A German court has said that a teenager who was guilty of posting copyrighted material to a file sharing network must pay €15 in damages per track and not the €300 the rights holders were demanding. The court said that the basis for a fine should be the amount that reasonable parties would agree as…
Team owner asks staff to go through lockers to prevent future violations
Chris Owens of The Associated Press reports on how no expectation of privacy in the workplace is playing out in a professional sports team: Houston Texans owner Bob McNair ordered the team’s staff to go through the locker room to make sure no players are using banned substances. USA Today first reported the Texans had…
Message Board Operator Fights Discovery Order Requiring Disclosure of Identities and Private Messages — Concerned Citizens for Crystal City v. City of Crystal City
Venkat Balasubramani discusses a case in which the identities of everyone who posted in a forum were requested as part of discovery: Concerned Citizens for Crystal City, et al. v. City of Crystal City, et al., No. ED 94135 (Mo. Ct. App.; Oct. 26, 2010) As background, the case concerns a group and forum created…