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...fined the chipmaking giant a record $1.45 billion for skewing the market. The Commission - the European Union's antitrust authority - said Intel tried to squeeze out competition by paying PC makers and retailers not to use rival chips. The Commission's 542-page ruling also contained a cease-and-desist order, requiring the Santa Clara-based company to change its business practices in Europe. (See pictures of the financial crisis in London...
...cease and desist letter claims that “Brunobooks.com misappropriated
...cease and desist letter was not the first legal encounter between the Coop and textbook price comparison services. In Sept. 2007, the Coop called the Cambridge Police Department after employees from CrimsonReading—who were manually writing down textbook ISBN numbers in the Coop—refused to leave the store. But the police made no arrests, and three affiliates of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society later denounced the Coop’s actions in a Crimson editorial, arguing that CrimsonReading had not violated copyright...
...Beginning this past fall, BrunoBooks began taking information from the Coop’s Web site rather than the store itself. But rather than turning a blind eye to BrunoBooks’ practices, Barnes & Noble’s cease and desist letter is now threatening to press charges against what Staff calls an “analogous action...
...think Barnes & Noble is deliberating misinterpreting the law,” said Seltzer, one of the authors of the 2007 editorial. “They’re claiming broader protections than the law would give us.” According to Seltzer, who read the cease and desist letter, copyright law only covers the selection and arrangement of factual information and not the information itself, such as textbook titles and prices...