Lawsuit (page: 2)
Satellite radio giant Sirius XM has settled with the major record labels, ending a lawsuit in which the labels accused the company of playing songs that were written before 1972 without paying royalties for them.
Earlier this month, streaming music service Grooveshark shut down and settled for millions of dollars with the major record labels.
For a couple of alleged pirates, ignoring those ISP copyright notices could be potentially disastrous.
Microsoft has sued Japanese phone maker Kyocera over patent infringement this week, claiming that the company's Duraforce, Hydro and Brigadier line of phone violate up to seven of the Redmond giant's patents.
Swedish telecom hardware maker Ericsson has sued Apple for patent infringement, filing a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC).
Lenovo pre-loaded the adware Superfish on some of its recent consumer PCs, and it will now have to pay the price.
Popular fast fashion retailer Forever 21 has been sued by Adobe, Autodesk and Corel over their alleged use of pirated software including Photoshop.
LG could seek legal action if Qualcomm creates a custom Snapdragon 810 chip for rival Samsung
Music execs and now billionaires Dr Dre and Jimmy Iovine have been sued by former business partner Noel Lee, who claims the two used a sham transaction to reduce his stake before selling the company to Apple this year for $3 billion.
Last year, the MPAA seemingly shook up the piracy industry when they announced they had won a suit against once-popular file hosting site Hotfile and agreed to an $80 million settlement.
Thanks to a early court ruling, the banks can now move forward with lawsuits against retailers that have been negligent with their security.
Last year, with Samsung selling over 300 million devices, those royalties topped $1 billion but allegedly Samsung was late with the payment and Microsoft sued them asking for about $7 million in interest.
Getty Images has sued Microsoft this week over the launch of their new Bing Image Widget, a piece of software that the company claims leads to massive infringement of copyrighted images.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has sued digital gaming giant Valve for breach of the Australian Consumer Law for businesses, over Steam's no-refund policy.
Premium audio hardware maker Bose has sued Beats Electronics over alleged patent infringement related to noise cancelling headphones.
Don Bui, an immigrant from Vietnam who is now a naturalized US citizen, will possibly owe porn studio Malibu Media $1.7 million after the judge ruled against him in a copyright case.
Apple has conditionally agreed to pay $450 million to settle claims that it fixed e-book prices in conspiracy with the major book publishers.
Once famous actress Lindsay Lohan has sued Rockstar Games over a 'Grand Theft Auto V' character that she says was created in her likeness but without her permission.
In 2012, Philips sued Nintendo for patent infringement, alleging that the Wii and Wii U infringed on its remote control patents.
Popcorn Time, the popular app that catalogs and allows streaming of 1080p pirated content, may be the new target of copyright holders, and especially the troll law firms that back some of them.
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