| July 6, 2005 | - The European Parliament voted 648 to 14 against software patents.
| Source:
BBC News
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| April 10, 2005 | -
National Library Week began.
| Source:
The Daily Democrat
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| October 5, 2004 | - The European Patent Office revoked the patent previously granted to Monsanto on the Indian Nap Hal variety of wheat. It was proved by Greenpeace that the variety was bred by Indian farmers; Monsanto claimed to have invented it via genetic engineering.
| Source:
Sify
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| June 4, 2004 | -
Microsoft
patented the "double-click."
| Source:
New Scientist
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| November 26, 2003 | - The Recording Industry Association of America was seeking a permanent exemption to antitrust lawsuits.
| Source:
The Register
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| November 6, 2003 | - The Federal Communications Commission decreed that after 2005 all digital television receivers must respond to a "broadcast flag" copyright mechanism to prevent unauthorized redistribution of movies and TV shows; computer scientists predicted that the mechanism will be defeated and that the copy protection will simply prevent legitimate uses.
| Source:
New Scientist
|
| October 9, 2003 | - A Princeton graduate student was in trouble for pointing out on his website that the copy-protection software on a new music CD could be defeated simply by pressing the shift key when one inserts the disc. SunnComm Technologies Inc. claimed that the student had violated criminal provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and threatened to sue him.
| Source:
Forbes
|
| September 25, 2003 | - The recording industry let it be known that it was promoting a "stealing is bad" curriculum for the nation's schools that will include classes on the history of copyright and games such as Starving Artist, a role-playing game in which children pretend to be musicians who no longer receive royalties because their work has been copied on the Internet.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| August 12, 2003 | - Fox News sued Al Franken, the comedian, because his new book includes the words "fair and balanced" in the title; Fox claims to own the commonly used phrase, which it uses to great ironic effect in its advertisements.
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| June 19, 2003 | -
Senator Orrin Hatch said that he favored the development of technology that would automatically destroy the computers of people who violate copyright restrictions.
It was then discovered that Hatch's own website makes use of pirated software.
| Source:
Wired.com
|
| April 29, 2003 | - It was reported that Hilary Rosen, the CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America, has agreed to help rewrite Iraq's copyright laws.
| Source:
Register.com
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| October 23, 2001 | - Dutch police
arrested Bert and Ernie in front of a hundred children at a fair in Bergen op Zoom because the actors wearing the costumes were violating Sesame Street's intellectual property rights.
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| September 5, 2000 | - Mastercard International, Inc. sued Ralph Nader's presidential campaign, claiming that Nader's television ad parodying Mastercard's “priceless” advertising campaign was a copyright infringement.
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