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Jennifer Lopez may finally have the perfect marriage and perfect family with now-husband Marc Antony and the twins they have together, but there is one man in her past that will simply not go away. Ojani Noa, the singer’s first husband, is looking to release a tell-all movie and intimate home videos shot while ... |
8 November 2009
02:18 GMT |
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Ever since Michael Jackson’s sudden death in June this year, estranged father Joe Jackson has been keeping a very high profile in the media, often doing interviews and media rounds to talk about his late son and plans for the children he left behind. However, he’s out for more than just media attention, a... |
7 November 2009
04:50 GMT |
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It's official, the Skype saga is finally over, with all parties involved most likely satisfied with the results, though not exactly thrilled. eBay got rid of Skype, allowing it to focus on its other assets, most notably PayPal, the investors got a nice piece of the VoIP service and Skype's founders also got... |
6 November 2009
09:50 GMT |
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Just yesterday, Michael Lohan was saying that he had come to the conclusion the only way he could make his daughter see that she needed rehab was to air all her dirty laundry in public. Since then to the time of writing, Mr. Lohan seems to have moved forward with his threat of releasing personal audios in his possess... |
5 November 2009
05:07 GMT |
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Activision saw its shares of trouble when it decided to use the late Kurt Cobain's likeness in its Guitar Hero 5, and, since then, troubles with its rhythm games started pouring in. Now, it is once again sued by a band for the unlawful use of likeness in a video game. According to Los Angeles Times, No Doubt are... |
5 November 2009
04:03 GMT |
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Former Miss California USA and the Miss California USA beauty pageant have finally found a way to agree on something, following months of verbal and legal dispute over the former’s firing from the competition in the aftermath of the homophobe-comments scandal. According to TMZ, Prejean has dropped the discrimin... |
4 November 2009
13:31 GMT |
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Wireless carrier AT&T has sued Verizon Wireless over the “There's a Map for That” commercials Big Red has been airing for quite some time now, and which are aimed at the “There's an App for That” ads Apple delivers for its iPhone. According to AT&T, that filed the lawsuit on Tuesday,... |
4 November 2009
10:02 GMT |
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Skype's legal troubles may finally be heading towards a resolution, as the parties involved are closer to a settlement. But, as expected, there are a couple of concessions that the company had to make in order to make things work. The agreement is between Skype's founders, the ones behind all of the lawsuit... |
4 November 2009
03:58 GMT |
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There's no shortage of companies or even countries wanting to get their hands on some of Google's wealth, sometimes rightfully so, though, most of the times, the claims are a little weak. Now, Turkey is having a go at it by claiming that Google owes the country 71 million Turkish Lira (approx. €32 mill... |
3 November 2009
10:50 GMT |
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In an effort to at least continue selling PCs with Snow Leopard as it tries to fend off Apple for the Leopard suit spawned last year, Florida-based Mac cloner Psystar has asked the judge handling its dispute with the Mac maker to rule in favor of its allegedly legit business. The people at Macworld excerpted a story... |
3 November 2009
04:01 GMT |
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Skype's legal troubles may finally be getting closer to an end, as Skype's founders and eBay are apparently in talks for a settlement. According to the GigaOm blog, sources close to the talks say that the two parties are going over their differences, but the discussions could still go either way and are far... |
2 November 2009
03:45 GMT |
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Lawsuits are a fact of life for large companies and they don't get any more common than patent lawsuits and all-time favorite for companies large and small. Patent laws are already widely disputed as being abused and this even more true for software patents, which most engineers would agree have very little fact... |
28 October 2009
11:30 GMT |
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Facebook is no stranger to lawsuits and, while many can be dismissed as frivolous, there are some of them that go into deeper issues. Facebook and Power.com have been engaged in a legal battle for almost a year now over the fact that Power.com scraped user data from the social network despite it explicitly forbidding... |
24 October 2009
05:48 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay has been taking hit after hit yet, miraculously, managed to stay afloat with hardly any noticeable damage so far. This time though it may not be able to weather the storm as a Dutch court has ordered the site to remove all infringing torrents within three months or face fines of 5,000 Euros, or $7,500... |
23 October 2009
06:15 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay case was scheduled for an appeal next month but it now seems that this has been postponed at least until summer 2010. The case has always been surrounded by controversy and this time it was no different. Two of the judges supposed to preside the appeal were accused of bias, a recurring theme in the Pir... |
20 October 2009
04:40 GMT |
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On Friday, reportedly after several attempts to settle the matter outside a court of law, TLC, the network producing and carrying the “Jon & Kate Plus 8” reality show, filed a lawsuit against Jon Gosselin for breach of contract. In court documents, the network argues that Jon is using his children as &ldq... |
19 October 2009
06:17 GMT |
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Hollywood A-lister Nicolas Cage, who made an estimated $40 million between June 2008 and June 2009, is in major debt. Court documents reveal he owes the IRS over $6 million in unpaid taxes, while also defaulting on a $2 million loan, as we also reported. Nevertheless, Cage is not bankrupt: he was simply ill advised b... |
17 October 2009
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TLC, the network producing and airing the soon-to-be-defunct “Jon & Kate Plus 8” reality series, is taking Jon Gosselin to court for allegedly violating contractual obligations, Radar Online reports. The father of eight was bound to TLC by an exclusive contract, a contract that he violated the moment he s... |
17 October 2009
04:12 GMT |
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JD Supra, a distributor of legal content, has launched its free “Legal Edge” iPhone application. Streaming timely legal information written by the nation’s lawyers and law firms, the application allows iPhone users to stay on top of the latest legal news, as well as of the various developments in an... |
15 October 2009
09:59 GMT |
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The Sidekick data loss issue that made the headlines during the past few days has been brought to court by Sidekick customer Maureen Thompson from Atlanta, who filed a lawsuit against Microsoft and T-Mobile on the account that these companies failed to securely and automatically back up users' data, although the... |
15 October 2009
04:23 GMT |
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Facebook has been recently faced with a new lawsuit related to the Beacon matter, even though representatives of both parties have announced that an agreement is being negotiated. It appears that three persons from Texas currently have a pending lawsuit against another company (namely Blockbuster) that also participa... |
15 October 2009
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Skype's future is looking anything but secure, even with the recent sale, and with things getting a little desperate, the VoIP service seems to be looking at all options to ensure its survival. The latest rumor is that Skype is looking to buy peer-to-peer VoIP startup Gizmo5 for around $50 million. The deal is f... |
14 October 2009
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The Michael Jackson Estate released yesterday “This Is It,” a never-before-heard Michael Jackson track, to promote the upcoming docu-film that drops at the end of the month. Some might have found that it sounded like a hit of 20 years ago, “I Never Heard” by Safire, and that’s because it... |
13 October 2009
03:41 GMT |
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Three fonts are in the middle of one of the heftiest lawsuits against NBC this year. Font Bureau, a Boston-based graphics agency has filed a complaint against TV giant NBC after it wrongfully used the licenses purchased for three of its fonts (Antenna, Interstate, and Bureau Grotesque). Besides copyright infringement... |
13 October 2009
02:36 GMT |
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Social networking has been known to get people in trouble with the law from time to time, but most of the times it's for something done outside of the social network itself. MySpace status updates have been known to get people arrested for revealing details related to various illegal acts, and Facebook photos ha... |
10 October 2009
06:24 GMT |
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Facebook is no stranger to lawsuits, some frivolous, others with more weight. It's part of the territory when you get to a certain size and, with Facebook's 300 million users, there's hardly a target larger than it. If you're going to sue someone it might as well be the largest social network in t... |
9 October 2009
10:57 GMT |
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More than one year ago, there were reports on the Internet that claimed NVIDIA would soon announce it would get out of the global chipset market, a claim that was never confirmed by the company. Later on, NVIDIA announced that it had entered a legal dispute with Intel, the world's leading chip maker, according t... |
9 October 2009
04:09 GMT |
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The new Guns N’ Roses released “Chinese Democracy” after many delays in November 2008, moving on to become one of the few albums to have spent over a decade in production stage. Almost a year later, the band is being sued for $1 million on plagiarism charges, after Ulrich Schnauss, a German electron... |
7 October 2009
12:26 GMT |
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Google's acquisition of YouTube is one of the company's best-known transactions and the most controversial. The deal made waves at the moment for the price tag it carried, which many believed to be significantly over-inflated, and later on for all of the copyright infringement troubles it carried. To this d... |
6 October 2009
10:10 GMT |
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The start date of a trial between Craigslist and eBay has been postponed by a Delaware court and the trial is now expected to begin in December. This is now the second delay in the trial between the online classifieds site and the ecommerce giant over the fact that two majority shareholders with Craigslist have worke... |
5 October 2009
08:42 GMT |
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When it is not busy patenting ways to further restrict hardware usage in its products, Apple also keeps an eye on those whose company logos are a tad too similar to its own. And it’s not surprising, with Woolworths Supermarkets being only one of many companies sued by Apple over such claims. As the story goes,... |
5 October 2009
06:22 GMT |
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In August this year, it emerged that Hollywood actor Nicolas Cage owed $6.2 million in unpaid taxes, as a lien filed by the IRS in Louisiana showed. Over the weekend, the star was slapped with yet another lawsuit also over money, in which the East West Bank alleged he had defaulted on a $2-million loan, as E! Online ... |
5 October 2009
03:32 GMT |
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Under his attorney’s guidance, Jon Gosselin secretly raided of hundred of thousands of dollars the joint account that was set up in his and Kate’s name. In doing so, both had directly violated the terms of divorce set up by a judge back in July, being liable of fraud and contempt, Kate Gosselin’s hi... |
5 October 2009
03:03 GMT |
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Twitter can be used for a lot of things but, despite more and more businesses using it as a legitimate marketing, support and even sales tool, the justice system is not one you would expect to use the microblogging site in any official dealings. But a UK High Court has done just that, allowing an injunction to be ser... |
2 October 2009
06:29 GMT |
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Four Google executives from Italy are facing jail time as a lawsuit brought against the company gets underway in Milan. The issue at heart is a video of four students bullying a colleague with Down's Syndrome posted on Google Video, which stayed on the site for several months before being taken down. The prosecu... |
1 October 2009
09:46 GMT |
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Jim Brown, a legendary running back for the Cleveland Browns, was known for being an unstoppable freight train on the football field. Still, it seems the athlete present in the NFL Hall of Fame and star in movies such as Three the Hard Way and The Dirty Dozen got a crushing tackle in the court of law. Last year, Jim ... |
1 October 2009
06:49 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay trial has seen its fair share of twists and turns and keeping up with the events is becoming harder even for the most dedicated. The trial is set for an appeal in November and already it's stirring up some controversy in a case riddled with this kind of issues. Several judges have been accused of ... |
30 September 2009
10:39 GMT |
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The controversial Google Books settlement is officially dead, at least in its current form. Heavily criticized by a number of organizations and competing companies, the deal that would have given Google carte blanche to scan and sell out-of-print books without the explicit consent of their authors has now been delaye... |
25 September 2009
06:18 GMT |
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New cases of fraudulent banking transfers that affect companies and organizations across the U.S. continue to be uncovered. A new incident involves a Maine-based company called Patco Construction, whose account was emptied of over $500,000 by Eastern European cybercrooks. The Washington Post reports that Patco'... |
24 September 2009
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A Bahamas court recently convened in the case of the extortion plot involving actor John Travolta and wife Kelly Preston over the death of their 16-year-old son Jett, which occurred in January this year. First testimonies show the actor refused medical help for Jett on the spot, asking that he be taken to the airport... |
23 September 2009
04:13 GMT |
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A lawsuit seeking class-action status was filed against document-sharing website Scribd last week. In the suit, author Elaine Scott claims that the site is guilty of copyright infringement and that the company is well aware that copyrighted works are available on the site and it's even profiting from it. Scribd ... |
21 September 2009
10:41 GMT |
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Beacon, an ill-fated advertising program launched by Facebook in 2007, is now officially dead and a class-action lawsuit filed against the social network regarding the program has been settled and is awaiting court approval. Beacon tracked users' actions on several partner sites and then displayed them on Facebo... |
19 September 2009
07:33 GMT |
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The Google Books settlement is looking a lot less likely to be approved by the court, now that the US Department of Justice has reached a conclusion on its investigation launched this summer. The DOJ will oppose the settlement in its current form and will ask the court to reject it. Google and the other parties invol... |
19 September 2009
06:43 GMT |
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The Skype deal proves to have some messy complications, at least for some. Yesterday, Joost, the troubled online video company, announced that it outed former CEO Michelangelo Volpi from his latest position as chairman of the board. What does this have to do with Skype? Volpi is now general partner at Index Ventures,... |
12 September 2009
01:55 GMT |
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Facebook and StudiVZ, its German “counterpart,” have reached an agreement in the intellectual-property lawsuit filed by the American social network last year. StudiVZ will pay an undisclosed sum to Facebook and both companies will cease any further legal action in any of the two countries. The two social ... |
10 September 2009
10:37 GMT |
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Earlier this year, Facebook was ordered to reveal its source code to the mostly unknown Leader Technologies, on claims of patent infringement on part of the social network. A Delaware District Court ruled that Facebook was to make the site's full source code available to the plaintiff, a decision that the social... |
10 September 2009
07:01 GMT |
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With the fate of the Pirate Bay still pretty much in the air, as the August 27 date when the sale of the site was supposed to be finalized came and went, another chapter in the heavily debated “Spectrial” is about to begin after the date for the ongoing appeal was set for early November by the Swedish App... |
4 September 2009
11:59 GMT |
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Miss California Carrie Prejean was the favorite for the title of Miss USA, but she eventually lost the crown to another girl when she gave her honest and unveiled opinion on Prop 8 and same-gender marriages. Following weeks of media scrutiny and intense debates, Prejean was eventually asked to step down as well as Mi... |
1 September 2009
08:59 GMT |
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Macnn is reporting that an angry Apple customer and buyer of an iPhone has filed a lawsuit against Apple and the leading US mobile carrier (AT&T) over misleading statements surrounding claims of MMS support for the respective device. When Apple introduced iPhone OS 3.0, the company touted the piece of software as be... |
28 August 2009
08:34 GMT |
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A simple search of Oksana Grigorieva’s name will reveal that she is not only Mel Gibson’s pregnant girlfriend and an aspiring singer, but also a former lingerie model, having apparently participated in a single shoot of the kind. The pics from that shoot are now out all over the Internet and Grigorieva is... |
28 August 2009
03:02 GMT |
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