Tag: Legal

GoDaddy Takes Down Righthaven Domain
Righthaven is the subject of a bit of irony as it has had its domain taken down by registrar GoDaddy. If you go to Righthaven.com, you will see...
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Righthaven Wants More than Domains Now
Righthaven, the company that turned copyright lawsuits into a business model, had a claim dismissed by a federal court in...
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TiVo Wins DISH Network Court Battle Over DVRs
A federal appeals court decision that would order DISH Network and parent company EchoStar to shut down DVRs...
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Apple and Samsung Legal Battle Heats Up
Apple and Samsung have an interesting relationship, which has gone from component supplier/supplyee to legal enemies. Samsung manufacturers various parts for Apple products inlclud...
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Fleet Foxes Front Man Robin Pecknold Encourages File Sharing
Fleet Foxes front man Robin Pecknold is cool with file sharing, and free music downloading. The band has an album coming out on May 3rd, but and it would seem he's more interested...
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YouTube Launches School For Copyright Violators
YouTube has introduced a new campaign aimed at educating users about copyright violations. If the company receives a copyright notification concerning a video a user uploaded, t...
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Arianna Huffington Responds to Questionable Lawsuit
As reported earlier this week, a group of writers who contributed free content to The Huff...
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Huffington Post and AOL Face Class Action Suit Over Contributed Content
The Huffington Post has been on the receiving end of a lot of criticism - more so since the announcement that it would be acquired by A...
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Zuckerberg and Facebook Follow Winklevoss Twins’ Ordeal with New Round of Paul Ceglia Litigation
Remember Paul Ceglia, the guy who claimed entitlement to the majority of Facebook...
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Social Network Users’ Bill of Rights: Yay or Nay?
With all the privacy concerns over the last year, it is not really surprising that Social Networking User Bill of Rights have been propose...
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Google Loses Swiss Street View Case
The way Google's Street View program operates in Switzerland may soon change in dramatic fashion.  A Swiss court has ordered that (among other things) Google must ensure all faces...
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Google Bids $900 Million For Nortel Patents
Although the timing may be coincidental, Larry Page's new career as CEO of Google has gotten off to an interesting start.  Google announced this morning that it's bid $900 million...
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YouTube – Viacom Brief Filed
In case anyone was wondering, YouTube hasn't decided to wave a white flag with respect to the legal battle that Viacom started in early 2007.  Indeed, lawyers representing the site...
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Righthaven Files Suit Against Ars Technica Writer, Quickly Dismisses It
Eriq Gardner, a journalist who contributed this ar...
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Nokia Files Complaint Against Apple (Again)
Apple and Nokia have been going at it for a while. In 2009, Nokia filed a patent infringement suit against App...
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