U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez gave his support to Apple's angry protests over a new French law that would force the company's popular iTunes music...

After banning free Internet telephone services China is now shutting down more than 50 web sites in its war against hackers. The Chinese government announced...

France's lower house of parliament passed on Tuesday the proposed law for intellectual property on the Internet that could challenge Apple's dominance of the online...

In France, a copyright bill on downloading music and films from the Internet would oblige Apple's iTunes to be converted into other formats playable on...

The French government withdrew on Monday the article referring to legal paid downloading from a bill that would allow P2P file-sharing. The revised bill will...

French consumers aren't entitled to make personal copies of DVDs, even if they don't distribute them, France's highest court said today in a victory for...

California enacted on Wednesday a new law lowering the felony threshold to 100 counterfeit CDs. Previously, the threshold for a felony copyright violation was 1,000...

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) announced on Thursday that it is filing a lawsuit against Web sites associated with movie piracy, including several...

Almost half those targeted in an Irish crackdown on people accused of illegally sharing copyrighted music tracks on the Internet have agreed to settle out...

Sweden has outlawed the downloading of copyrighted movies, games and music in an attempt to curb rampant piracy.

About 10% of Swedes freely swap music,...