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Spring Design, which recently released its Android-based Alex e-reader, has sued Barnes & Noble over the Nook e-reader, claiming B&N "misappropriated trade secrets" and "violated a non-disclosure ...
Date: 3 Nov 2009 18:11
The results of a new study conducted by Demos, a London-based public policy think tank, once again affirm that the people who download the most music spend more than average buying music legally.
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Date: 3 Nov 2009 10:11 | 7 comments
Lord Mandelson has announced this week that the UK will in fact be adopting the highly controversial 'three strikes' Internet piracy law, disconnecting multiple time offenders from the Internet ...
Date: 28 Oct 2009 17:10 | 34 comments
Electronics companies Sony, Toshiba and Hitachi confirmed today that their optical disc drive operations are currently under investigation for antitrust violation in the United States.
Sony's ...
Date: 27 Oct 2009 19:10 | 5 comments
A provision which would require a judicial order before the government could have someone's internet account shut off has been removed from the Telecoms Package being negotiated between European ...
Date: 25 Oct 2009 07:10 | 1 comment
Nokia has sued Apple this week over the popular iPhone smartphone, claiming Apple infringes on Nokia patents.
There are 10 patents up for dispute, each of which relate to technologies "fundamental ...
Date: 22 Oct 2009 22:10 | 9 comments
The MPAA appears to be gearing up for a change in the way they fight file sharing. Two leaders of the movie industry trade group's antipiracy division have reportedly been let go.
Antipiracy ...
Date: 22 Oct 2009 07:10 | 8 comments
AT&T has sued LCD panel makers Samsung, Sharp, LG, AU Optronics and two others over claims that they fixed prices on panels sold in the United States in the past few years.
Says AT&T in the ...
Date: 21 Oct 2009 20:10 | 5 comments
The All Party Communications Group (apComms), an independent group of Members of Parliament and Lords in the UK, has released a report blaming record labels for their own losses from illegal file sharing.
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Date: 20 Oct 2009 14:10 | 4 comments
TheLocal is reporting today that the appeal launched by the founders of the Pirate Bay has been pushed until next summer.
The Svea Court of Appeal in Sweden made the decision today, pushing ...
Date: 20 Oct 2009 14:10 | 6 comments
A bill which would require terrestrial radio broadcasters to pay additional royalties to performers for the music they play. Currently US broadcasters are only required to pay the songwriter.
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Date: 20 Oct 2009 06:10 | 6 comments
In April, Wizards of the Coast sued 8 alleged file sharers over copyright infringement for unauthorized sharing of the then newly introduced Dungeons & Dragons Player’s Handbook 2.
The lawsuits ...
Date: 18 Oct 2009 22:10 | 9 comments
The large UK ISP TalkTalk is making a strong point today, calling the Lord Mandelson-backed Internet Piracy bill (three strikes law) "naive," and prone to mistakes.
The law, which would give ...
Date: 16 Oct 2009 15:10 | 11 comments
On Wednesday a Federal judge granted Verizon's request for summary judgement, shooting down all of ASCAP's claims that mobile phone providers should pay public performance royalties for ringtones they sell.
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Date: 15 Oct 2009 23:10 | 6 comments
Nintendo, Capcom and 53 other DS software manufacturers have filed lawsuit today against four sellers of the R4 flash cart device for the Nintendo DS handheld in Japan.
The plaintiffs are ...
Date: 15 Oct 2009 17:10 | 4 comments
AT&T Senior Vice President Robert Quinn Jr. has sent a second letter to the FCC accusing Google of violating that agency's telephone provider and net neutrality rules. It follows a letter he ...
Date: 15 Oct 2009 05:10 | 3 comments
A Federal judge reviewing the RIAA complaint against New York defense attorney Ray Beckerman is recommending the request for sanctions be denied. RIAA lawyers accused Beckerman of "vexatious ...
Date: 13 Oct 2009 08:10 | 1 comment
Record labels appear ready to defend their ownership of recordings dating back to the 1970s against termination claims from artists. The claims could transfer ownership of a recording to the ...
Date: 13 Oct 2009 07:10 | 4 comments
A potential royalty battle is brewing between terrestrial radio stations and performance rights collection agencies ASCAP and BMI. The nearly five year old license agreements which set royalties ...
Date: 13 Oct 2009 06:10 | 2 comments
RealNetworks has appealed the recent court ruling that blocked it from selling its RealDVD copying software.
The company never got to sell one unit of the software before they were taken ...
Date: 9 Oct 2009 20:10 | 4 comments
In one of what has to be one of the funniest tech related articles of the week, Donald Goodrich of Ohio was arrested on Friday for brandishing a gun at his local Apple Store, while threatening ...
Date: 4 Oct 2009 05:10 | 40 comments
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Glossary
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- DMCA
An American legislation, called Digital Millennium Copyrights Act that outlaws distribution, sale, use and advertising of tools that allow circumventing copy protection mechanisms. Legislation ...
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