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New measures under RIPA Act introduced

The Government has introduced new measures designed to tighten regulation of phone and Internet record used to fight crime while aiming to strike the right balance between the pretext of privacy and the public. The Order has been made under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA) and represents a radical revision of original proposals following public concerns in 2002 over the extent of access afforded to public bodies.

The new Order will:

  • Restrict the type of information public

DVD Copy Control Association Inc v Bunner (No. S 102588 Super. Ct. Ca. 25 August 2003)

The California Supreme Court has upheld the award of a preliminary injunction that forbade distribution of software designed to decrypt movies stored on DVD’s. The court began by quoting from Universal City Studios Inc v Reimerdes (S.D.N.Y. 2000 111 F.Supp. 2d 294, 307) in which DVD’s were defined as:

Five-inch wide disks capable of storing more than 4.7 Gigabytes of data. In the application relevant here, they are used to hold full-length motion pictures in digital form. They are the latest

Germany

  • Agreement on new German copyright act — no private copies permitted from illegal sources — At a meeting on 11 June 2003, the German Bundesrat [Federal Council] set the course for the coming into force of the new Copyright Act [Urheberrechtsgesetz — UrhG]. The new legislation will transpose into national law the WIPO agreements of 1996 and the Directives on harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society. After the Bundestag [Federal Parliament] had

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