UK ISPs will have to write warning letters to illegal downloaders identified by rightsholders, after the ongoing protests of two of the larg… Read more »
Two more advances in the ongoing, international fight between Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Android tablet maker Samsung over alleged patent violat… Read more »
One superstore step forward for Android in Australia, but another step back for Android-maker Samsung. Today saw what could be Google’s answ… Read more »
A reversal of fortunes, of sorts, for Samsung in its ongoing case against Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) in Australia: today, an appeals court unanimous… Read more »
Internet users who want to remain anonymous online have been pushing back against media companies’ efforts to strip them of their pseudonyms… Read more »
The German courts have proven to be some of the most heated in the current rash of mobile patent suits, and here is one more case to cement… Read more »
Could there be a little glimmer of light at the end of the tablet injunction tunnel for Samsung in Australia? With Christmas now exactly one… Read more »
Looks like a small window of opportunity has opened for Meltwater News Service and the Public Relations Consultants Association in its case… Read more »
Hyperlinking is fundamental to how information spreads on the web — it’s the reason why traffic spikes on some sites and also explains why… Read more »
It looks like Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) could be jumping its last major regulatory hurdle in its bid to buy Skype: it is expected to get cleara… Read more »
Jonathan Tasini was a hero to many writers when he won his battle to get additional payments from publishers like The New York Times who had… Read more »
Righthaven had a major setback recently, after a judge ordered it to pay more than $34,000 in legal fees. We caught up with Righthaven CEO S… Read more »
Britain’s newspaper publishers, which are losing millions every week, need to find revenue somewhere.
Most are sceptical they can charge on… Read more »
The PR industry chief whose members must pay a license for “copying” online newspaper articles says his appeal loss shows UK copyright law t… Read more »
Here is the full UK Court of Appeal judgement in the case in which the public relations industry and a commercial PR news monitor have faile… Read more »
PRs have failed to overturn a court ruling that they should pay ongoing license fees for receiving links to and summaries of newspapers’ onl… Read more »
I wanted to start this post by saying something like “Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss’ legal crusade against Facebook has finally come to an en… Read more »
Earlier this week, when Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss abandoned their idea to head to the U.S. Supreme Court, it seemed to the world like the… Read more »
At long last, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss have given up. The twins, who have spent years challenging Facebook in court, have decided they w… Read more »
In the past couple years, media companies doing battle with news aggregators–or competitors–began to turn to the little-known legal doctri… Read more »
The whole tech sector was cheering on Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) in this case, which could have had a major impact on the function of the U.S. p… Read more »
A lot of people don’t like “bundling”-the practice of selling consumers access to a big chunk of cable channels, rather than allowing “a la… Read more »
» Dish CEO Says DirecTV (NYSE: DTV) Merger Possible in Regulatory Environment (Bloomberg)
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Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Apple’s apparently getting closer to a cloud music product after signing a deal with EM… Read more »
Universal Music Group argued one of the most closely watched copyright cases in digital media on Friday-and the panel of appeals judges who… Read more »
What is likely to be final set of briefs in the Viacom-YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) appeal has been filed, and the argument is becoming more focused… Read more »
Following yet one more judicial strike against their case, sister companies Dish Network (NSDQ: DISH) and Echostar (NSDQ: SATS) finally have… Read more »
TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) shares are up as much as 40 percent today, after an appeals court ruled in the company’s favor in its long-standing patent… Read more »
The UK’s stalled graduated-response anti-piracy legislation is now more likely to come to fruition, after two of the leading ISPs failed in… Read more »
The Winklevosses are asking for yet another appeal of their recent loss to Facebook–a request for an “en banc” rehearing, filed on Monday.… Read more »
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has assembled an impressive coalition of corporations to support it in a landmark patent battle that the U.S. Supreme… Read more »
Remember the end of The Social Network, when the Winklevosses get to walk away with a settlement worth $65 million, and all the lawsuits are… Read more »
The recording industry sued thousands of individual file-sharers in an unprecedented campaign of lawsuits that began in 2003; but only two o… Read more »
Last year, Viacom (NYSE: VIA) appealed its loss in its copyright lawsuit against YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG), and the video-sharing site has now fi… Read more »
If a web service in one country infringes the copyright of one in another country, where should the case be heard?
That’s the question the… Read more »
The UK’s Court of Appeal has upheld a decision that strips TV EPG maker Gemstar, now part of Rovi, of three patents. Read more »
It turns out Google (NSDQ: GOOG) can still be successfully sued for hosting copyrighted material without authorisation.
Paris’ appeal court… Read more »
Buying advertisements tied to words that users type into search bars on Google (NSDQ: GOOG) or Bing has become a multibillion-dollar industr… Read more »
Copyrights do end — although these days, they’re so long (95 years for most works) that you’d scarcely know it. Once a work does fall into… Read more »
A conservative majority of the Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts held last year that a corporation has similar free-speech righ… Read more »
