2 posts and columns on European law

Google Loses a Round in Italian Court: Will YouTube Have to Pay Up?

in Media on December 16, 2009 at 2:11 pm PT

Here’s the problem with running the world’s biggest video site: It exposes you to legal fights all over the world. And Google appears to have lost a tussle in Italian court today. Mediaset, a commercial broadcaster controlled by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, has won a copyright ruling, and a Rome court has ordered YouTube to remove all of Mediaset’s content from the site. The broadcaster is reportedly looking for at least $730 million in damages.

EU Objects to Oracle-Sun Deal

in News on November 9, 2009 at 2:43 pm PT

The European Commission today issued a so-called Statement of Objections over Oracle’s proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems. Disclosed in a regulatory filing by Sun, the document gives formal voice to the EC’s concerns over the fate of Sun’s open-source MySQL database.