News tagged with legal rights

Apple sued for stifling iPod tricks

Internet rights champions have accused Apple of stifling free speech by bullying OdioWorks into ending online sharing of ways to get iPods to work with music websites other than iTunes.

Technology / Business

created Apr 28, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 5

Will Judicial Judgment Change Cyberspace?

(PhysOrg.com) -- The struggle of American courts to control the explosion of intellectual property rights violations on some of the most traveled highways of cyberspace poses a legal challenge to the judicial system with ...

Technology / Internet

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 3

Australia cigarette plan facing new legal threat

A second global tobacco giant has flagged legal action over Australia's plain packaging plan for cigarettes, warning of violations of its intellectual property rights, a report said Saturday.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 26

Study shows gay couples want legal rights, regardless of marriage

New research from North Carolina State University shows that gay and lesbian couples are forming long-term, committed relationships, even in the absence of the right to marry. However, couples surveyed for the study overwhelmingly ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jun 01, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Carbon sequestration policy must balance private property, public good

The lack of a settled legal framework that balances private property rights while maximizing the public good ultimately hinders the large-scale commercial deployment of geologic carbon sequestration, according ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 54

Research reveals Common-law Marriage is myth created by 1970s press

The myth that co-habiting couples have the same legal rights as those who are married can be traced back to misleading press reports in the 1970s, according to research from the University of Warwick.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Aug 18, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1