By John Timmer | Published: July 25, 2008 - 11:15AM CT Online auction house eBay may have won a major court victory when it prevailed over Tiffany, but its legal troubles are hardly behind it. In that case, a judge ruled that eBay was taking reasonable efforts to keep counterfeit items off its site and used Tiffany's trademarked name appropriately, but the auctioneer lost a similar battle against Louis Vuitton in French courts. Now, word comes that a software industry group is considering suing the auctioneer over counterfeit items, this time on copyright grounds. The group in question is the The Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA), which counts heavy hitters such as Apple and Adobe among its members. Part of the group's mission is policing software piracy. Although not as vocal as the Business Software...
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