Media conglomerate Viacom cannot seek punitive damages in its lawsuit against video sharing site YouTube, a judge has ruled.

Nearly a third of retail websites surveyed by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) are breaking laws designed to protect shoppers.

Fox News Network has failed to win control over a domain name that is almost identical to one of its television station names because it did not register its trade marks early enough.

Google's acquisition of online advertising firm DoubleClick has been passed by European competition regulators and has been completed. \

The US government is under investigation by the European Commission over claims that its internet gambling ban discriminates against EU companies.

Privacy watchdog the Information Commissioner is investigating advertising technology company Phorm over a deal it has cut with the UK's top internet service providers.

German police and customs officials raided over 50 exhibitors at the CeBIT technology trade fair in Hanover because of alleged patent infringements.

A US online publisher is fighting to keep its product review forums alive in the face of a trade mark lawsuit that seeks to ban the use of one company's product name.

Yahoo! did not infringe a businessman's rights by displaying adverts for other companies when users entered his trade marks as search terms.

The European Parliament has asked EU member states to press ahead with a plan to criminalise copyright infringement.

Two London law firms must pay £815 each after the Information Commissioner sued them for not fulfilling their duties under the Data Protection Act.

Social networking website Facebook claims to have fixed the privacy problems that have dogged it in recent weeks.

The US Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) concerning a US government programme of eavesdropping on citizens' phone calls without a court warrant.

Mobile device makers Motorola and Research In Motion (RIM) are locked in a legal deadlock over patents for their technologies. Each says the other is using its patents without permission. RIM makes the popular Blackberry mobile email device.

A committee of the body responsible for the internet's addressing system has found no evidence of front running, a form of deceptive domain name acquisition.

The European Commission will regulate the cost of text messages sent and received abroad if the industry does not tackle overcharging, Information Society Commissioner Viviane Reding has said.

Financial magazine The Economist has failed in its attempt to gain control of the internet address theeconomist.com.

Computer printers could be violating European citizens' human rights the EU Commissioner for Justice, Freedom and Security has warned.

Many of the people behind identity theft scams are themselves having data stolen from them in the process, a security researcher has revealed.

The Government is said to be close to publishing plans for a new law that would force internet service providers (ISPs) to trawl their networks for file sharers and ban them from using their service.