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 »
The Facebook Fight: How Yahoo Could Win, Lose Or Draw
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When Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) filed a patent suit against Facebook this week, it became as popular as Rush Limbaugh at a Planned Parenthood gather… Read more »
How Netflix's Hastings Could Get BSkyB Off An Anti-Trust Charge
The UK inquiry in to whether Sky Movies’ exclusive first-run subscription VOD deals with six major Hollywood major studios is anti-competiti… Read more »
FTC Subpoenas Apple In Google Antitrust Probe
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The Federal Trade Commission has reportedly asked Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) to supply information as part of its investigation into whether Google… Read more »
Meet The 10 Patents Yahoo Is Using To Sue Facebook
Yes, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) went there today — claiming in a lawsuit that it, not Facebook, is the real king of social networks. The company po… Read more »
It's On: Yahoo Sues Facebook Over Patents
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Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has made good on its threat of last month and filed a patent infringement suit against Facebook. The lawsuit adds to the… Read more »
Lawsuits Mushroom Over Google Browser Tracking
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The legal fallout continues over Google’s decision to circumvent privacy settings on the iPhone. Court records show that there are now at le… Read more »
European Union, U.S. Coordinate On E-Book Pricing Cases
As regulators on both sides of the Atlantic investigate publishers and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) for allegedly colluding to fix the price of e-book… Read more »
Diller To Networks: Get Radio Shack To Pay Retrans & Aereo Will Too
Barry Diller’s latest investment in media disruption hasn’t even launched yet and it’s already in court. That’s part of the appeal of Aereo… Read more »
E-Book Smackdown: Who Should Control Pricing — Publishers Or Amazon?
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A couple of years ago, with Amazon steadily pushing down the prices of e-books, the fortunes of the big book publishers were sinking fast. T… Read more »
Ron Paul Fails Again To Identify YouTube, Twitter Impostors
A judge has once again rebuffed Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul’s efforts to unmask the people who used his name to launch racist… Read more »
Authors Guild: DOJ Investigation Is 'Grim,' 'Tragic' News For Book Lovers
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The Authors Guild weighs in on the news that the Department of Justice is investigating Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and five of the big-six publisher… Read more »
Cloud Services Reach High On Europe's Radar To Boost Economy
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She may not be convinced of the name, but “cloud” computing has risen close to top of European Commission vice-president Neelie Kroes’ 2012… Read more »
Update: Penguin Says Kindle, Nook Users Must Accept AT&T-style Arbitration
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Penguin Group, one of the “Big 5″ publishers caught up in a lawsuit over e-book pricing, says customers agreed not to sue them when they tur… 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 »
Bands Led By Youngbloods Ding Sony For $8M In iTunes Royalties
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Sony’s music labels have agreed to pay almost $8 million to bands like Allman Brothers and Cheap Trick which claim the company shortchanged… Read more »
Apple Downplays Role Of 'Kindle Threat' In Alleged e-Book Conspiracy
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A court filing provides new insight into Apple’s version of events concerning an incident in which Steve Jobs told a reporter that “unhappy”… Read more »
The U.S. Threat To Sue Apple And Publishers: What It Means
The Justice Department is about to sue Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and five publishers for conspiring to raise the price of e-books. The warning is a… Read more »
Asian Video Games Could Sink Social Gaming Patent
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A new patent troll last week fired a shot at Facebook, Zynga and others with a lawsuit that claims rights to in-game payments — the process… Read more »
Staggered Sponsored Tweet Campaigns Ruled OK
A controversial Twitter marketing campaign that used celebrities, not Promoted Tweets, to advertise chocolate did not cross a line, the UK’s… Read more »
Hacker News Source Calls For Pluck, Retaliation After FBI Raid
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A Twitter account tied to hacking collective Anonymous is telling followers not to be discouraged by news that “top members” have been arres… Read more »
Spam Lawsuits Weigh On Twilio, Group Texting Apps
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Group messaging apps continue to be both a hot communications tool and a legal minefield. Like other developers who decided to build first a… 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 »
Hackers Allegedly Steal Sony's Archive Of 50k+ Michael Jackson Tracks
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Sony (NYSE: SNE) is facing yet another major security breach. Hackers reportedly illegally downloaded over Michael Jackson’s entire back cat… 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 »
Hulu Joins Trademark Battle Against Dish's 'TV Everywhere' Claim
Hulu has joined Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) Inc. and the nation’s five biggest cable service providers in a fight to stop Dish Network (NSDQ: DI… Read more »
It's Baaaack. Net Neutrality To Get Its Day In Court
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Like some hideous policy monster that won’t go away, network neutrality is hitting the headlines again. Verizon and Metro PCS, the two opera… 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 »
Google Privacy D-Day Arrives, Users Search For Snooki
At midnight, Google’s official blog posted a notice confirming that the company’s new privacy policy went into effect. Reaction so far sugge… Read more »
What Happens Next If Spotify Goes Public?
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Record labels’ equity in Spotify has allowed the music subscription service to start and to flourish. But, if the company decides to file fo… Read more »
Patent Troll Stalks Social Gaming Industry Over Virtual Payments
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A new patent troll announced its arrival this week by suing companies like Facebook, Zynga and Playfish. Its weapon is a patent that it clai… Read more »
Judges Say No To Crack, Refuse 'Crackberry' Trademark
Embattled BlackBerry maker Research In Motion got a rare bit of good news this week after judges refused to let a gadget site trademark the… Read more »
Why U.S. Prosectors Won't Be Filing Corruption Charges Against News Corp
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What if the scandal involving bribery, phone-hacking and News Corp landed in an American courtroom? It would be a great story. But despite t… Read more »
EC Says Telco Standards Could Make €110 Billion New Digital Content Market
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The European Commission reckons it could unlock €110 ($147.99/£93.27) billion a year in new digital business by harmonising rules for the… Read more »
Vodafone Lashes Out As European Parliament Votes To Cut Data Roam Charges
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For the last few years European regulators have been pushing mobile companies to slash the roaming charges they slap on customers who cross… Read more »
Does WikiLeaks Still Matter?
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It has been some time since WikiLeaks stunned the world with classified video of U.S. military attacks on civilians in Iraq and thousands of… Read more »
