Administrative Court accepts Finnish e-voting results despite 2% of votes...
Helsinki Administrative Court gave today its decision on the e-voting appeals. Turre Legal represented 16 individuals from three municipalities who appealed the e-voting results from municipal...
View ArticlePirateBay vs. Finreactor case
Some people have asked whether the Swedish defendants could get any help, hints or advice from the Finnish BitTorrent case where litigation started already in 2006 and is currently heard before the...
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Pirate Bay defense witness asks flowers for his wife — and she is sent them...
Today in the Pirate Bay trial media professor Roger Wallis, testifying for the defense, said he would not take any money for his testimony. Instead, he hoped that his wife would be sent flowers. And...
View ArticleZero copyright v. public domain?
Creative Commons has release CC0 license that complements the Public Domain Dedication. Why yet another way to get your work into completely free use? Apparently, some lawyers have raised issues with...
View ArticleE-voting appeal won: we have new elections!
Today we got a major victory from the Finnish Supreme Administrative Court. The Court vacated earlier decision by Helsinki Administrative Court and ordered new elections for the three municipalities...
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Kernel Records v. Timbaland enters a court in Florida
Glenn Rune Gallefoss left and Mikko Välimäki right in Bergen, Norway, 6.6.2009. We just received confirmation that the first filing in our case against Timbaland and Universal Music has been made in...
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Finnish court: Administrators are not liable for activities planned at...
Vantaa district court decided in a case that defines the limits of freedom of speech and online liability that discussion forum administrators are not liable for people gathering to float down the...
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26 universities to Open Access publishing model
Turre Legal counseled a consortium of Finland’s universities of applied science (aka. AMK) to create a digital repository for theses and research publications . The project adopted a joint Open Access...
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NBC Nearly Goes Creative Commons
Last February, on an especially cold day, author and Harvard scholar Doc Searls shot some pictures of ice crystals that had formed inside the old storm windows of his apartment, and put them up on the...
View ArticleFinnish Court: Open WiFi Owner Not Liable for File-Sharing Copyright...
Press Release 14.5.2012 Helsinki, Finland Finnish Court: Open WiFi Owner Not Liable for File-Sharing Copyright Infringement In a landmark ruling, a Finnish District Court (Ylivieskan käräjäoikeus) has...
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