An intellectual-property expert says Google may have used copyrighted code owned by Oracle in as many as 43 files in Android 2.2 and Android 2.3 smartphones. Bloggers disagree. – Google may
have used copyrighted code owned by Oracle in as many as 43 files for the
latest versions of its Android operating system, said an intellectual-property
specialist.
However,
tech-savvy bloggers who have studied the issue dispute his claims.
Oracle sued Google Aug. 12 for infringing …
Country crooning duo The Bellamy Brothers have a bone to pick with pop star Britney Spears: They think the singing/dancing sensation ripped off on of their signature songs. You be the judge. Check out the song samples after the jump! David Bellamy, who formed the duo with his brother Howard more than 30 years ago, [...]
You often read about the problem of free P2P music downloads, but do you fully understand the arguments. There is more than just illegal file copying, but questions such as what is copyright and do you know when it has lapsed. It’s perfectly legal to download material with lapsed copyright but it is too confusing now for anybody but the lawyers to understand. Does that make illegal copying legal?
Parliament funk pioneer George Clinton is suing hip-pop group the Black Eyed Peas for copyright infringement after the band allegedly twice sampled his 1979 hit “(Not Just) Knee Deep” — first for a 2003 single and again on their Grammy-nominated 2009 comeback album, The E.N.D.. According to the complaint, filed on Friday in US District [...]
Google will process copyright takedown requests for content on Google.com and Blogger within 24 hours in 2011. The changes follow YouTube’s Content ID protection scheme. – Google Dec. 2 said it plans to improve its copyright and piracy protection
procedures, including processing copyright takedown requests for content within
24 hours.
The search engine said it is building tools to improve the submission
process to make it easier for rights-holders to submit Digita…
UPDATED: The dollar amount is the largest U.S. copyright infringement award on record; an appeal may be forthcoming. – Oracle will be banking the largest U.S. copyright infringement award on record — $1.3 billion — from longtime enterprise application rival SAP after a federal court jury on Nov. 23 concluded that amount was fair restitution in a 3-year-old copyright infringement lawsuit.
Oracle, in its lawsuit …
After nearly four decades, Satyajit Ray’s banned documentary ‘Sikkim’ was finally screened at the Kolkata Film Festival (KFF), only to be tangled in a copyright controversy. A Sikkim-based trust has claimed to own exclusive rights over the film, reports the BBC. The Art and Culture Trust of Sikkim (Acts) – an organisation promoted by former [...]
UPDATED: Leo Apotheker, material witness in a copyright infringement trial involving SAP, was sighted in Japan giving an interview — although HP will not attest to this. – Reuters, citing unnamed sources quot;familiar with the situation, quot;
reported Nov. 10 that Oracle has been using private detectives to try to locate
new Hewlett-Packard CEO Leo Apotheker.
Apotheker is a key material witness Oracle would like to question in copyright
infringement litigation…
Jury candidates were asked about their stock ownership and their familiarity with intellectual property. SAP’s attorneys were concerned about whether potential jurors could remain unbiased toward a foreign company. – Lawyers for Oracle and SAP selected eight
jurors Nov. 1 on the first day of the long-awaited financial restitution trial
involving Oracle’s intellectual property piracy case against Germany-based
enterprise application maker SAP.
The case is being tried before Judge Shirley Hamilton in U.S. Di…
The operators of Pirate Bay, the world’s biggest free file-sharing website, are back in court to appeal against their conviction for breaching copyright laws.
A court in Stockholm found the group guilty last year of being accessories to copyright violations.
While the Federal Communications Commission seems determined to find some way to regulate network neutrality, a coalition of technology and creative concerns called Arts+Labs is confusing the debate by demanding that Internet service providers get in the business of screening Internet traffic for illegal transmissions of copyrighted material. – One of the nice things about
the net neutrality debate is that just when you think you’ve figured out
all of the positions, everything changes. In this case, a ruling by the U.S.
Court of Appeals that the Federal
Communications Commission did not have the authority to regulate net neutrality
h…
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YouTube June 23 said it won its fight against Viacom for copyright infringement after the New York district court hearing the case granted YouTube’s motion for summary judgment. U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton believes YouTube is protected by the safe harbor of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) against claims of copyright infringement. Viacom called Stanton’s ruling "fundamentally flawed" and will try to have its grievances heard by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. – YouTube claimed victory in fighting off Viacom’s $1
billion lawsuit against the video-sharing Website for allegedly infringing on
the media giant’s copyrights.
The New York district court hearing the case June 23 granted
YouTube’s motion for summary judgment. This essentially means U.S. District…
Viacom claimed new documents from its $1 billion lawsuit versus Google’s YouTube prove the video-sharing site tried to make money from copyright infringement. The media giant, looking to bolster its case in the court of public opinion, said that comments made by Google executives prove the search engine made a deliberate decision to make money from content it didn’t own and had no authority to offer to users. One of the hurdles Viacom must work around is the fact that its own employees used YouTube to upload video content.
– Viacom claimed nine new documents from its $1 billion
lawsuit versus Google’s YouTube prove the video-sharing site tried to
make money from copyright infringement.
Viacom
sued YouTube and Google for copyright infringement in March 2007, with the case
winding its way through court amid a sea of …
Viacom, which sued video-sharing site YouTube and Google for copyright infringement, in its motion for summary judgment contended Google acquired YouTube in 2006 because it was a haven of infringement and planned to profit from it. Google in its own motion alleged that after filing the suit, Viacom secretly uploaded video content to YouTube, even while publicly complaining about its presence there. While a judge weighs arguments from Viacom and YouTube, a legal expert said YouTube might have the advantage of transforming into a solid business and brand.
– While a judge weighs arguments from Viacom and YouTube in
one of the most closely watched copyright cases in the Web’s young history, a
legal expert said YouTube might have the advantage of transforming into a reputable business.
Viacom
sued
video-sharing site YouTube and Google for copyright …
A Minnesota judge orders the reduction of mother of four Jammie Thomas-Rasset’s fine by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) to about $54,000, down from $1.92 million a jury previously awarded the organization.
– The Recording Industry Association of America, the music organization that
in June 2009 won a lawsuit against a Minnesota
woman for allegedly downloading 24 songs, had its original fine of $1.92 million
reduced by Minnesota federal
judge Michael Davis. According to the ruling, the original penal…
Hackintosh company Psystar agrees to pay Apple nearly $2.7 million in damages and legal fees for selling PCs with Mac OS X Leopard preloaded onto them–but the legal drama isn’t over yet.
– Psystar, the Doral, Fla.,
company sued by computer
maker Apple for selling “Open Computers” PCs with Mac OS X Leopard preloaded
onto them has agreed to pay Apple $2.7 million in damages and legal fees to
partially settle a dispute over the sale of such computers. The companys Website
currently …
Ellen DeGeneres” daily U.S. talkshow has been hit with controversy as many record companies have filed a suit against the producers of the show for using popular songs without prior permission.
The suit is filed at Nashville’’s U.S. District Court, in which record companies including Arista, Capitol Records, Sony and Warner Bros. Records are named as [...]
Okay, let’s try this again. Peter Sinclair producer of the well-known “Climate Crock of the Week” video series, posted a video debunking weatherman Anthony Watts…
So what do you do when someone posts a YouTube video saying you’re a crock? One way is to complain and get it wiped clean off the ‘inter-tubes.’
