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 »
Turns out libraries and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) can work together on books – as long as copyright is no longer an issue.
The British Library is… Read more »
Earlier this week, a Nevada federal judge dealt a major setback to copyright enforcer Righthaven. In the wake of that decision–which said t… Read more »
Today, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Samsung are due in court to see whether the judge will permit Samsung to view unreleased Apple products as par… Read more »
Rather than outside forces such as volatility on Wall St. or bubble fears, it looks like concerns about Pandora’s uncertain ability to achie… Read more »
Back in November, the UK High Court upheld a stipulation that operators and customers of paid digital news monitor services should pay newsp… Read more »
Pandora completed its initial public offering today, selling 14.7 million shares of stock at $16 each, according to Bloomberg, after initial… Read more »
The saga of controversial copyright-enforcement company Righthaven may be slowly drawing to a close. A judge has dismissed its lawsuit again… Read more »
The branch of the U.S. government that typically deals with border control-Immigrations and Custom Enforcement (ICE)-began seizing U.S. web… Read more »
Google’s auto-complete feature-which gives suggestions about what you may be typing in the search bar before you spell out the whole word-is… Read more »
Now that Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has launched its iCloud music service, it’s going to be scanning a whole lot of users’ music files. So what is t… Read more »
Like many entertainment companies, Disney (NYSE: DIS) has pretty specific ideas about when and how it wants to release its content, and uses… Read more »
YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) has introduced a new feature that will be a boost for aspiring videographers looking for the “perfect clip” for a video… Read more »
FilmOn founder Alki David’s copyright lawsuit against CBS (NYSE: CBS) and CNET may be getting cut down to size-a not-very-big size. The judg… Read more »
Pandora, which is seeking to raise $100 million from an IPO, has filed another three months’ worth of financial results. The filing shows Pa… Read more »
S. Victor Whitmill, the tattoo artist who who sued Warner Brothers for putting a copy of Mike Tyson’s facial tattoo on Ed Helms’ face in The… Read more »
Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: more details on the Foxconn factory explosion; reports of a curvaceous future for the i… Read more »
Copyright enforcement company Righthaven has filed nearly all of its lawsuits-nearly 300 now-in two states, Nevada and Colorado. Now all of… Read more »
Google’s executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, warned on Wednesday that government plans to block access to illicit filesharing websites could s… Read more »
In the developed world, the nation that’s arguably toughest on online copyright infringers is France. The country passed a controversial “th… Read more »
A report for the UK government has advised against implementing a U.S.-style “fair use” copyright policy, which Google had lobbied for and m… Read more »
Copyright enforcer Righthaven is on the ropes in its home state of Nevada, where defense lawyers are attacking its agreement with the Las Ve… Read more »
Apple’s in-app purchasing system has been raising controversy among some developers unhappy with the 30 percent cut that Apple (NSDQ: AAPL)… Read more »
The U.S. record industry has finally exacted its tribute from Limewire, the file-sharing service that was in operation for a decade and allo… Read more »
Zediva is a quirky online movie rental business, launched in March. By using only physical DVDs-one per customer at a time-Zediva hopes to b… Read more »
Congress is drafting a bill to follow-up last year’s controversial COICA anti-piracy bill. A draft copy and summary of the bill have leaked… 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 »
In case you missed it, links to some of the top stories in digital media this past week:
» By The Numbers: An Online Snapshot Of… Read more »
The defunct file-sharing service Limewire is facing off with the record labels this week in front of a New York jury, and reports from the c… Read more »
Last month, Immigrations and Custom Enforcement (ICE) asked Mozilla to remove an add-on from its online directory, saying that the MafiaaFir… Read more »
Controversial copyright-enforcement company Righthaven–which has worked with newspapers to file more than 250 copyright lawsuits against sm… Read more »
» News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) Has Lost $10 Million On The Daily This Year (paidContent)
» Google (NSDQ: GOOG) TV Aims to Tu… Read more »
FilmOn quickly got in trouble once it started broadcasting the programming of U.S. TV networks over the internet. As he began losing his cou… Read more »
Even though controversial copyright enforcer Righthaven has already lost two lawsuits on fair use grounds, not every defendant that chooses… Read more »
Dish Networks is celebrating its 30th anniversary, but a few of their biggest media partners aren’t interested in throwing the satellite TV… Read more »
The fate of Limewire and its founder Mark Gorton is now in the hands of a panel of New York jurors. The service has already been found to ha… 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 »
He might be a bit past his prime, but angering Mike Tyson is still an incredibly bad idea, as the main characters of the 2009 hit movie The… Read more »
Questions are being raised about how Facebook handles copyright and trademark complaints, after bogus complaints were used to remove the Fac… Read more »
Word leaked earlier this week that YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) was going to start renting out premium movie content, putting it in a position to co… Read more »
