Man Utd Wants Its Crest Stripped From Google Play
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Manchester United football club is demanding that Google (NSDQ: GOOG) bar all Android apps that contain its logo. Read more »
Live From New York, It's Aereo TV (For Now…)
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Aereo, a bold new service that brings broadcast TV and DVR to your iPad and iPhone, started its engines in New York City today — and the re… Read more »
Only Content Industries Can Create Content People Want, Says MPAA's Attaway
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“Our industries do something that no one else can do,” the Motion Picture Association of America’s Fritz Attaway said at the Association of… Read more »
News Licensing Outfit NewsRight Bags First Client
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News companies have notched a victory in their long running push to charge digital aggregators for curating their content. On Wednesday, lic… Read more »
Germany Wants To Charge Search Engines To Use News Excerpts
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Germany’s government wants search engines and news aggregators to pay news publishers for using pieces of their material. Read more »
UK ISPs Must Write Letters To Pirates, Other Measures Some Way Off
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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 »
France Launches Google-style Plan To Scan And Sell Out-of-Print Books
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A year after the collapse of the Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Books Settlement in a New York court, the government of France has passed a law to digi… Read more »
Update: Court Filings Suggest Google Fighting Feds Over Megaupload Emails
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[Update: Australian paper The Age reported that U.S. prosecutors have drawn up a secret indictment against Wikileaks' founder Julian Assange… Read more »
Broadcasters Sue To Stop $12 Streaming Service Aereo
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Well, that was quick. Two weeks ago, media mogul Barry Diller announced an ambitious cloud-based TV service that streams over-the-air channe… Read more »
John Wiley, Physicists Sue Patent Lawyers Over Journals
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In a sign the country’s intellectual property laws may be getting out of hand, copyright lawyers are suing patent lawyers for using scientif… Read more »
The Pinfluence Of Pinterest: Magazines And More Delight In Découpage
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If Pinterest is attracting heat for copying publishers’ content, perhaps it’s only fair that publishers give the same treatment to the buddi… Read more »
Paramount Sues Puzo Estate Over ‘Godfather’ Sequels
The studio behind the famous Godfather trilogy is asking a court to make the franchise’s literary heirs an offer they can’t refuse. Read more »
Don’t Shoot The Messenger Over User Content, Courts Confirm
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People are lining up to sue sites like Yelp and Ripoff Report over their users’ misbehavior, but courts continue to slam the door in their f… Read more »
Open Road Responds To HarperCollins E-Book Lawsuit
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Open Road Media responded today to the lawsuit that HarperCollins filed against it in December over the digital rights to Jean Craighead Geo… Read more »
Updated: Book Publishers Force Down Piracy Sites
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Update: Andi Sporkin of the Association of American Publishers contacted me shortly after this story was published. She says the publishers… Read more »
Fair Use Or Free Riding? The AP’s New Attack On News Scraping
The Associated Press is becoming more aggressive in trying to rein in the information the news service scatters around the world. After help… Read more »
Interviews: Meltwater Appeals UK Web News Fees As Both Sides Claim Victory
The Newspaper Licensing Agency (NLA) and Meltwater put their own contrasting spins on Tuesday’s setting by the UK’s Copyright Tribunal of th… Read more »
Meltwater, UK Newspapers Each Get Partial Victory In Web Fees Ruling
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In its ruling setting copying fees for news monitor clients who receive newspaper websites’ online story clippings, the UK’s Copyright Tribu… Read more »
Pinterest: Is It A Facebook Or A Grokster?
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Copyright clouds are gathering around Pinterest. And that could make the dreamy image site an unlikely successor to other innovators — from… Read more »
Google Books Lawsuit Lurches Forward
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The fate of Google’s massive book scanning project has been up in the air since a legal settlement collapsed last year. New court filings th… Read more »
Patent Office: Inventors Don’t Have To Pay Copyright On Science Submissions
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Scientific journals are threatening to sue inventors and law firms over the academic studies that are part of a typical patent application.… Read more »
Have The Hollywood Studios Finally Beaten Down Kaleidescape?
In the mid-2000s, a technology called Kaleidescape was all the rage among the Hollywood intelligensia. Fillmakers like Brett Ratner and high… Read more »
Feds Seize Hundreds Of Websites Days Before Superbowl
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In what is becoming a ritual akin to Superbowl Week itself, federal prosecutors today announced the seizure of 16 websites that offered live… Read more »
‘Hot News’ Returns In Hollywood Publisher Catfight
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For decades, publishers have tried and failed to use the law of “hot news” to chase competitors from their stories. This hasn’t dissuaded Pe… Read more »
Feds Warn Of Data Deletion In Megaupload Case, Other Docs Still Under Seal
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US agents have finished copying data from servers that contain information on Megaupload, the controversial file-sharing site shut down earl… Read more »
Ad Agency Sues Herman Cain Over Book Cover Photo
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A new lawsuit claims a former Republican presidential candidate used a photo without permission for the cover of his biography, This is Herm… Read more »
Entertainment Lobby Claims Google, Bing Send Users To Illegal Music Files
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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and other search engines “overwhelmingly” direct music fans to illegal copies of copyrighted tracks online, a coalition… Read more »
What The Pundits Are Missing In The Megaupload Case
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Media types are claiming that prosecutors will find it hard to pin copyright charges on Kim Dotcom, the 300-pound executive whose website Me… Read more »
Jon Miller, News Corp.: It’s All About Video For Us Right Now
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Jon Miller, the chief digital officer for News Corporation (NSDQ: NWS), described his company’s digital strategy today as very “focused on v… Read more »
Megaupload Case Grows Bigger, Stranger
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A New Zealand court today delayed its decision over whether to grant bail to the founder of Megaupload after prosecutors argued that Kim Dot… Read more »
Publisher Says No Duty To Reveal Grooveshark Source, Law Unclear
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Can a music site sue to find out which of its employees used a blog post to accuse the company of piracy? The blog’s publisher says the anon… Read more »
Europe Says It Won’t Adopt ‘Bad’ Digital Policy Like SOPA
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Don’t expect the European Commission to introduce its own version of America’s Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Read more »
SOPA Blackout, Anonymous-Style: FBI, DOJ Sites Downed In Megaupload Protest
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A day after the SOPA protest on the web, the hacker group Anonymous has taken the blackout theme to a whole new level: in retaliation for th… Read more »
Updated: Day After Piracy Bill Collapses, Feds Shut Down Megaupload
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The FBI today unsealed an indictment that charges file-sharing site Megaupload and its executives with a list of criminal charges, including… Read more »
Video: Clay Shirky On Why SOPA Is A Bad Idea
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Want the short course on why SOPA is getting such blowback? Clay Shirky breaks it down in this 13-minute talk at the TED offices, explaining… Read more »
Tech Industry Breaks Back Of SOPA As Republicans Jump Ship On Black-out Day
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The furor over controversial anti-piracy legislation reached a climax on Wednesday as Republican lawmakers began disavowing the Stop Online… Read more »
Supreme Court: 'Peter and the Wolf' Can Be Removed From Public Domain
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In a setback for educators and orchestras, the Supreme Court this morning ruled that Congress can place works under copyright that were once… Read more »
Why Amazon's Plagiarism Problem Is More Than A Public Relations Issue
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Plagiarized editions for sale in Amazon’s Kindle store show how the company is still adapting to the world of original content creation. At… Read more »
Update: Wikipedia Is Dark, But Mobile Site/Apps Stay Bright In SOPA Protest
A small loophole for Wikipedia’s SOPA and PIPA protest, in which the English-language version of the site has gone dark for 24 hours: the mo… Read more »
SOPA Rep Blasts Wikipedia Blackout, Says Law To Go Forward In Feb.
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Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Tx), who is leading a push to pass a controversial anti-piracy bill, issued a statement today scolding Wikipedia over it… Read more »
