On October 19, 2011, West Yorkshire police went before the High Court to face accusations of copyright infringement. The police department is accused of having created a mobile phone forensics application, parts of which it allegedly stole from Forensics Telecommunications Services. The Kent-based company had provided the police department with a system with which police investigators could recover mobile phone data, with or without a SIM card. The program allowed its users to recover data such as call details or deleted texts. According to FTS’s claim, filed in May 2009, the police had copied FTS’s software to create its own mobile phone forensics application. FTS argues that the police have sold their own software, deriving financial benefit from FTS’s copyrighted work.
Click here for the entire article: The American University Intellectual Property Brief, Caroline Gousse, 21 october 2011
