A former Google contractor is suing the company for allegedly stealing from him the idea for the Sky layer in Google Earth.
Gathered at the Legal Futures Conference at California's Stanford University over the weekend, online legal experts have again raised their concerns that the rise and rise of Web 2.0 has come at the expense of individual privacy.
Google Australia has labelled claims of misleading and deceptive conduct made against the search engine provider by consumer watchdog ACCC as being without merit.
The Linux Foundation, custodians of the Linux trademark, have announced two legal summits to deal with legal issues surrounding Linux and open-source software.
Google scored a big legal win on Wednesday when a federal judge ruled that its use of trademarks in keyword advertising is legal.
Novell expects this week to begin offering SuSE Linux customers some legal protection for using the open-source operating system, the fourth legal umbrella to emerge from a computing industry grappling with legal threats brought by SCO Group.
Internet law in 2003 was full of surprises.
In a legal response to Viacom's lawsuit against YouTube, the search giant says it could affect "the way hundreds of millions of people legitimately exchange information" over the Web
Google has defended its privacy credentials following a claim by Microsoft's privacy chief last week that the search giant was a decade behind Microsoft when it came to privacy.
A Microsoft-Yahoo merger could threaten the openness on which the Internet is based, according to a Google executive.
Google is using users as crash test dummies to measure exactly what changes it should make to its main search website both to its famously Spartan search box and to the results it produces.
With the Google-DoubleClick merger wrapped up, Yahoo may face even greater pressure to find itself a buyout partner, according to Wall Street analysts and investors.
Australian High Court Judge Justice Kirby has said computer code is more potent than the law -- and legislators are powerless to do anything about it.
Twenty-two organisations across 60 countries are taking part in DocumentFreedomDay (DFD) to raise awareness about what happens when formats are no longer supported by proprietary software.
Google has denied claims that the terms and conditions for its Google Docs service means it owns any user's content published in the application.
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