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| The Dancing Baby vs. Universal Music |  | A mother whose video showing her baby dancing to Prince's "Let's Go Crazy" was pulled off YouTube entered a legal action against Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG). The company decided that the 30-second video infringed copyright, as the artist's song shouldn't have been displayed in public without his prior consent.
"I was really surprised and angry when I learned my video was removed, ... [read more >>] | | 22 July 2008, 06:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Psystar Needs Lawsuit Cash, Sells Its Home |  | Last week, news broke out that Apple was suing Psystar for copyright infringement, over the latter's Mac clones which ran modified versions of Mac OS X Leopard. Internet real estate sites reveal now that the building that houses Psystar is up for sale.
"If ... [read more >>] | | 21 July 2008, 06:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| iPhone Sales VP Sued by Motorola for Disclosing Company Secrets |  | Motorola has sued one of its former executives, Michael Fenger, who is now working for Apple, on the count of disclosing the company's trade secrets, thus helping Apple sell more iPhones.
Michael Fenger left Motorola for Apple after six years as vice president for the company's mobile-device business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, the Bloomberg report reveals. Currently occupying the Vice President for Global iPhone Sa ... [read more >>] | | 21 July 2008, 04:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| NVIDIA and ATI Have Been Lying to Us |  | It’s safe to say that most of us believe that the rivalry between the two biggest chip manufacturers is pretty much real and intense. Over time, countless words have been spent on said rivalry, all of them claiming that big players like NVIDIA and ATI have never seen eye to eye. But they do say that, more often than not, appearances can be deceiving – and such could also be the case with these two graphics giants, which are now reported to ... [read more >>] | | 19 July 2008, 04:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Apple Wants Psystar to Recall Its Open Computers |  | Out of all the claims Apple has put on paper when filing the much awaited suit against the Florida-based Mac cloners, one in particular stands out as quite unusual. Besides accusing Psystar of Copyright infringement, Contributory and induced copyright infringement, Trade dress infringeme ... [read more >>] | | 17 July 2008, 04:32GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Intel Could Face New Antitrust Charges |  | Even if Intel's Q2 revenues have been fairly within initial expectations, this doesn't necessarily mean that the Santa-Clara based chips manufacturer is doing all that well. Or, there is also the possibility that perhaps everything is well with the company, and that it just isn’t genuinely concerned for the number of antitrust charges that are being thrown at it. On that note, it looks like the leading manufacturer of microproces ... [read more >>] | | 16 July 2008, 10:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Apple Finally Takes on Psystar |  | For months, Apple has disappointingly taken no action against the bold, Florida-based Mac cloner going by the name of Psystar, that ships regular PCs equipped with Apple's OS X Leopard. The company went as far as messing around with Apple's Extensible Firmware Interface, which d ... [read more >>] | | 16 July 2008, 05:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| YouTube Users' Private Information Is Safe |  | It seems like YouTube users have nothing to fear anymore. Their user ID, IP address and visitor ID are no longer in danger of being handed over to Viacom, as the company, that sued Google's YouTube last year, asking for $1 billion indemnification regarding copyrights, has backed off its request. If this came to happen because the media company reconsidered its position, the judges rejected some of the other solicitations Viacom came f ... [read more >>] | | 15 July 2008, 06:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| eBay's Reputation Is Redeemed |  | Counterfeit products available on eBay and other purchasing sites cannot be totally shut out, unless the companies that fabricate the originals keep a keen eye on what is going on on these properties. This statement was underscored by the judge who exonerated eBay of any guilt in the process vs. jewelry giant Tiffany.
The trial between the two parties began in 2004, when Tiffany's lawyers sued the bidding website because ... [read more >>] | | 15 July 2008, 03:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| More Bad News for NVIDIA: Sued by Rambus |  | Here is a business plan that some might consider twice before putting into practice: create a company that can obtain numerous technology patents and license technologies for which it has no production facilities to work on. Said company will then engage in a number of lawsuits that will be quickly settled through a generous financial agreement. This seems to be the business plan of Rambus, which is back again in court, this time suing NVI ... [read more >>] | | 11 July 2008, 05:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Godfather Gets Lawsuit |  | It seems that this is a month of lawsuits in the video games industry: Tecmo is having all sorts of trouble with its development team and now we have news about a lawsuit filed by Mario Puzo's son, Anthony Puzo, demanding money for The Godfather: The Game released in 2006 by &l ... [read more >>] | | 20 June 2008, 12:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Tecmo Sued by Everybody |  | Not the entire world is suing Tecmo, but things are just as bad, anyway because all the 300 employees of the development company have filed a lawsuit over unpaid wages for roughly 100 hours of overtime work per month (yes, as strange as it might seem, this means a bit over 3 extra hours of work, per day!)
Tecmo is the company behind successful series like ... [read more >>] | | 18 June 2008, 03:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Did You Know: Carl Sagan Fought Apple |  | In 1994, Apple code-named the Power Macintosh 7100 "Carl Sagan" after the astronomer and science popularizer. His name was only used internally, as an homage to his work. The code-name might not have caused any problems if Apple hadn't also released models codenamed "Cold Fusion" and "Piltdown Man" at the same time, the latter obviously implying that Carl Sagan was a hoaxer.
The astronomer was furious ... [read more >>] | | 13 June 2008, 16:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Starbucks Settles Wi-Fi Dispute with T-Mobile |  | Yesterday we were reporting that T-Mobile was angry with Starbucks for starting to show off with its new friend, AT&T. On the terms of a previous agreement signed with T-Mobile, the coffee giant was supposed to wait a little longer before advertising its new campaign. T-Mobile s ... [read more >>] | | 12 June 2008, 16:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| US Court Delays Intel-AMD Trial Until 2010 |  | As we informed you yesterday, Intel is currently entangled in a number of legal actions, one of which is of particular concern, as it involves competitor Advanced Micro Devices. The lawsuit has been going on since 2005, when AMD accused Intel of giving computer makers illegal discounts and of retaliating against manufacturers who used AMD chips.
Apparently, a recent development in the legal dispute between the two chip manufac ... [read more >>] | | 06 June 2008, 09:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Intel Fined with $26 Million for Antitrust Rules Breach |  | Leading chip manufacturer, Intel Corp. will be forced to pay a $26 million fine, following an investigation by South Korea's antitrust regulator concerning Intel's actions of offering discounts to prevent customers from buying products from rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
Although the Santa Clara, California-based manufacturer is expected to appeal the ruling, this is clearly not something that sits well with it. I ... [read more >>] | | 05 June 2008, 11:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Last Member of Piracy Group Convicted |  | One of the largest criminal music piracy cases in the United States has ended with 25-year old Barry Gitarts being convicted of copyright infringement. The man, who was part of the so-called Apocalypse Production Crew, was found guilty by a jury last week in the Eastern District of Virginia. The APC was an online piracy group that specialized in stealing and disseminating music.
Gitarts, who is expected to be sentenced on August 8, face ... [read more >>] | | 28 May 2008, 08:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| BitTorrent Hosting Service Asked to Shut Down Trackers |  | The Canadian Recording Industry Association, also known as CRIA, decided to take attitude against the growing number of BitTorrent services in the country and requested Moxie Colo, a local BitTorrent hosting service, to shut down four websites. According to TorrentFreak, the anti-piracy ... [read more >>] | | 28 May 2008, 04:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| New York Judge Finds Dell Guilty |  | American hardware and technology manufacturer Dell was found guilty by a New York judge of engaging in deceptive advertising in promotional credit and warranty offers. Yesterday, judge Joseph Teresi ruled that the company and its affiliate Dell Financial Services have to pay restitution for engaging in fraud, false advertising and deceptive business practices, along with abusive debt collection.
The American company has been brought to ... [read more >>] | | 28 May 2008, 04:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Yahoo! Tries to Bring "Lottery" Spammers to Court |  | At the beginning of this month, we brought you news about a mail scam that aimed to steal personal information from Yahoo! Mail users. Back then, it was reported that a number of Yahoo! users had received notification emails that literally made them winners in a Yahoo! Lotter ... [read more >>] | | 28 May 2008, 02:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| YouTube Suit - Threat to Online Communication |  | Google's subsidiary YouTube and Viacom are currently involved in a $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit, which was initiated by Viacom in February 2007. According to Viacom, YouTube is to be held responsible for the high number of video materials that don't respect copyright rules. 160,000 of these videos are said to be unauthorized Viacom clips, which total more than 1.5 billion views.
According to a recent update on the ... [read more >>] | | 27 May 2008, 09:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| WikiSubtitles Goes Offline Due to Anti-Piracy Efforts |  | The recent anti-piracy efforts made by organizations around the world closed lots of websites suspected of piracy, but also brought a large number of lawsuits against them. WikiSubtitles, the web service which creates subtitles with the help of the community, joined the club a few days ago as it was taken offline due to what seems to be the request of the Spanish Anti-Piracy Federation (FAP). According to ... [read more >>] | | 21 May 2008, 02:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Mininova Forced to Remove Pirated Torrents |  | Although Mininova is the most popular BitTorrent service on the web, this doesn't stop the copyright organization to go after the website and force it to remove copyright infringement torrent files. For those of you who don't know, Mininova is way more popular than The Pirate Bay, being placed on position number 52 in the Alexa traffic ranking. According to TorrentFreak, BREIN, a Dutch anti-piracy group, said it would f ... [read more >>] | | 20 May 2008, 02:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Pirate Bay Sued for Pirated Michael Jackson Songs |  | The Pirate Bay is no longer a stranger to the court because it’s probably one of the websites which recorded the largest number of lawsuits, most of them filed for piracy. Well, add one more complaint to the list because Websheriff, a copyright organization, prepares to sue the BitTorrent website for publishing content belonging to several artists, including here Prince, Bob Marley and Michael Jackson. Moreover, according to a bl ... [read more >>] | | 19 May 2008, 07:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Court Forces Intel to Hand AMD Further Documents |  | Intel has been ordered to hand in more documents to its arch-rival AMD, as part of the antitrust lawsuit initiated in 2007. According to the judges, the new documents will play a key role in finding whether Intel is guilty or not of antitrust behavior in Europe and China.
Intel began collecting critical data about its activity as soon as it found out that AMD started the legal dispute. The company followed the standard operati ... [read more >>] | | 17 May 2008, 04:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| After Dealing with Piracy Complaints, Torrent Tracker Returns from the Dead |  | The Icelandic copyright organizations that sued the country's largest BitTorrent tracker suffered another defeat after the court decided that there were no legal grounds in the case against the service. According to Ben Jones of TorrentFreak, the administrators of the website plan to reopen it on May 1 ... [read more >>] | | 12 May 2008, 05:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Canada – Apple to Pay $45 Credit for Owners of Older iPods |  | Following two class action lawsuits concerning iPods with underperforming batteries, Apple Canada Inc. is offering $45 credits to Canadian residents who own a new first, second or third-generation iPod purchased before June 24, 2004.
The settlement includes payment of legal fees, the Montreal ... [read more >>] | | 09 May 2008, 16:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| TorrentSpy to Appeal the $110M Fine for Copyright Infringement |  | Although the court ruled that TorrentSpy must pay a fine of $110 million to MPAA and some of you thought that the lawsuit was finally over, it seems like the dispute will continue because the BitTorrent website decided to appeal the decision. According to AFP, a TorrentSpy lawyer said they would appeal the court ruling, so the lawsuit will go on. The MPAA saw the ruling as a real victory and said that it should be the best exampl ... [read more >>] | | 09 May 2008, 05:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| News Corp. Manager Admits to Have Known about Hacking Claims |  | As an update to the evolution of the lawsuit between News Corp. and DISH Network Corp., we bring you news about shocking statements of a Senior Manager at News Corp. The legal process between the two companies is a result of the testimony of a computer hacker who revea ... [read more >>] | | 08 May 2008, 08:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| TorrentSpy Fined $110 Millions for Copyright Infringement |  | The battle against BitTorrent websites suspected of copyright infringement and distribution of pirated material reached another milestone yesterday when the movie studios, represented by the MPAA, won the lawsuit against TorrentSpy. The legal dispute was started a long time ago when, just like many other BitTorrent services on the web, TorrentSpy was sued for copyright infringement, MPAA making serious efforts to shut down its se ... [read more >>] | | 08 May 2008, 02:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| 200 Million Pages Can't Be Wrong: Intel Sabotaged AMD's Business |  | The legal action filed by AMD against Intel in 2006 got new evidence to support AMD's allegations claiming that it had been sabotaged by its arch-rival on the processor market. According to the latest information emerging from the trial, AMD gathered 200 million pages of documents that say Intel paid its partners to ditch AMD.
Intel has been allegedly involved with major system vendors worldwide, such as Dell, IBM and HP ... [read more >>] | | 07 May 2008, 06:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| AMD: Double Your Market Share or Shut Down |  | The antitrust lawsuit filed by AMD against its arch-rival Intel unveiled more details about AMD's precarious financial state. According to a brief released by chip manufacturer's lawyers, the company has to either double its share of the microproc ... [read more >>] | | 06 May 2008, 10:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Take Two Sues Chicago Transit Authority for GTA Ads |  | It was about two weeks ago when we reported that the CTA (Chicago Transit Authority) had decided to withdraw the ad campaign on Grand Theft Auto, following news reports from Fox News stating that recent criminal and violent acts in Chicago were caused by the y ... [read more >>] | | 06 May 2008, 03:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| And Yes, Piracy Does Make You Famous! Pirate Bay Strikes 12 Million Users Milestone! |  | The Pirate Bay is one of the most popular names on the web nowadays even if it comes from that side of the market which is often accused of piracy and copyright infringement. In fact, The Pirate Bay is one of the most attacked services as several copyright holders and anti-piracy groups have sued the BitTorrent tracker and made pressure to shut down its servers. The Pirate Bay even started its own lawsuit against anti-piracy orga ... [read more >>] | | 25 April 2008, 04:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| News Corp Hired Hacker to Attack Rivals |  | The evolution of a lawsuit between News Corp. and DISH Network Corp. reveals shocking details which took place in the past, although nobody would ever expect such a thing from a large corporation like News Corp. To be more specific, a computer hacker who testified a few days ago revealed that he was hired by News Corp. to build pirating software, ... [read more >>] | | 24 April 2008, 09:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Key Witness Hired by Pirate Bay's Lawsuit Rival |  | The Pirate Bay is again brought in the spotlights, but this time to what seems to be one of the most important glitches of the lawsuit versus the copyright holders: Jim Keyzer, the chief police investigator who was responsible for the investigation of the case, was recently hired by Warner Bros, one of the companies involved in the lawsuit. Obviously, this raises concerns over the fairness of the trial.
According to a statemen ... [read more >>] | | 18 April 2008, 08:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Rapper Stands Back In The Pirate Bay vs. IFPI Lawsuit |  | The dispute between The Pirate Bay and IFPI, an organization that fights for the copyright of several artists, tends to reach the first page of every newspaper around the world as every new day comes with hot and extremely important information. Following TPB's announcement that the website will demand compensation from the copyright organization, Max Peezay, a Swedish artist who was involved in the legal dispute started by ... [read more >>] | | 17 April 2008, 05:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| STEC Dismisses Seagate's Patent Lawsuit |  | Solid-state drive manufacturer STEC claims that Seagate's patent infringement lawsuit is completely without merit and gets ready to prove this in court. According to the filled lawsuit, hard-disk drive manufacturer Seagate accuses STEC of infringing four ... [read more >>] | | 16 April 2008, 04:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Pirate Bay Seeking for Compensation from Copyright Holders?! |  | The Pirate Bay, the BitTorrent website which has been longly criticized for the content published on its page, prepares to release a complaint in order to demand for compensations from IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry), an organization supposed to defend music artists' copyrights. To be more specific, TPB asks for compensations because IFPI ordered a Danish ISP, namely Tele2, to restrict the access ... [read more >>] | | 16 April 2008, 04:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Sued? Antivirus Update Required! |  | A new and pretty dangerous phishing attack was launched a few days ago, targeting the CEOs of online companies. According to Cyveillance's official blog, the CEO of the company, Panos Anastassiadis, received a suspicious email, apparently a subpoena, which informed him that he had been sued, the message including a link supposed to allow the receiver to download court documents.
What's interesting is that, in compar ... [read more >>] | | 15 April 2008, 05:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Seagate Starts Calling SSD Manufacturers To Court |  | Storage expert Seagate is reportedly gearing up for a huge court battle with almost any solid-state drive manufacturer on the market. As previously reported, Seagate's CEO, Bill Watkins, said that he was not impressed with the performance boost achieved by using SSDs inside notebooks, and ... [read more >>] | | 15 April 2008, 03:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| New Evidence in the Wendy Williams Sex Case |  | Wendy Williams may be best known for hosting the highest rated weekday syndicated radio broadcast yet, pissing off Tupac Shakur and speaking her mind on day-to-day celebrity gossip, however the outspoken radio host may soon have a lot more to worry about than annoyed celebrities taking abusive swipes at her in their song lyrics. New York DJ and host of "The Wendy Williams Experience" is currently in very hot water over ... [read more >>] | | 14 April 2008, 06:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Heath Ledger Framed by Paparazzi over "Drug Tape" |  | As if Heath Ledger's untimely death at the beginning of the year was not enough of a tragedy, the actor's memory was soon to be tarnished by a series if accusations and sensationalist reports, culminating with the infamous broadcast of a tape showing the young artist snorting cocaine during a party at the Chateau Marmont Hotel in Los Angeles two years prior to his death. The tape was briefly aired by Entertainment Tonig ... [read more >>] | | 14 April 2008, 05:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Ultra Products Slams PSU Manufacturers With Huge Lawsuit |  | Ultra Products, an obscure hardware manufacturer has triggered an enormous lawsuit against almost any power-supply unit manufacturer on the market, based on the alleged fact that they infringe upon the company's patented technology.
The lawsuit claims that a vast number of high-power modular power supply manufacturers are abusing the company's intellectual property regarding some aspects of its modular design. Ultra ... [read more >>] | | 10 April 2008, 16:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Lohan Sued Again |  | Lindsay Lohan definitely has a hard time keeping her nose clean. If three stints in rehab, two arrests and a reputation for sleeping with just about any rich, good-looking man or woman who crosses her path were not enough, here's another piece of news that will most likely come to confirm the rehabbed actress' huge damage potential. In addition to about a dozen more lawsuits filed against her, Lindsay has just been sued ... [read more >>] | | 09 April 2008, 06:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Asustek Slams IBM With Patent Infringement Countersuit |  | Computer manufacturer Asustek has just filled a lawsuit against the US-based conglomerate IBM over an alleged patent infringement regarding its intellectual property. Asustek's legal action comes as a response to a previous lawsuit filled by IBM against the Taiwanese vendor on the same grounds.
The system vendor filled its lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, seeking relief from the ... [read more >>] | | 07 April 2008, 20:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
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