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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
05:45 GMT |
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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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Just as Google is making another claim for openness by releasing over a million public domain books in the open ePub e-book format, the company is bracing for some heavy battles defending the settlement it signed with publishers and authors to sell out-of-print books through Google Books. The unlikely alliance reveal... |
27 August 2009
06:41 GMT |
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Cybersquatting can be a big business for the shady parties that engage in it but for one company it may not have been such a wise move. A federal California court has upheld a previous ruling that awarded $33.15 million in damages to the US telecommunications company Verizon to be paid by a company that registered hu... |
27 August 2009
05:12 GMT |
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No matter what Google seems to be doing lately it's bound to set off some people. Whether it’s local real estate agents in Australia or the biggest online book retailer in the world, people take notice when the search giant encroaches on their turf. On the other hand, Google does seem to want a piece of ev... |
27 August 2009
04:24 GMT |
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By filing a motion found to be completely baseless, Judge Alsup ordered Florida-based Mac clone maker Psystar to pay Apple $5,000 in attorneys' fees, Edible Apple reports. But even now, walking on ice that’s thinner than ever, Psystar continues to introduce new systems pre-installed with Leopard, in what l... |
27 August 2009
04:20 GMT |
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Mininova has lost a lawsuit filed by the Dutch anti-piracy organization BREIN and the judge ordered the torrent site to remove all infringing content within three months. While the court didn't hold Mininova responsible for the illegal content linked to on the site, it believed that the torrent aggregator could ... |
26 August 2009
09:11 GMT |
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Just as the Pirate Bay was taken offline by a court order in Sweden, only to be brought back up again at a different location using another ISP, the site's founders actually got some good news yesterday after the Swedish government agency in charge with collecting the $4 million in damages the content companies ... |
25 August 2009
11:22 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay is once again hit by rough waters and this time it may be the biggest move to take down the site yet. Swedish authorities have ordered that it be taken offline, threatening its bandwidth suppliers with heavy fines. Following the decision, Black Internet, the site's main ISP, has complied and has s... |
25 August 2009
05:34 GMT |
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The results from a previous lawsuit between Vogue cover-girl Liskula Cohen and Google have spawned new troubles for the Mountain View-based company. Rosemary Port, a fashion student in New York, has sued Google for breaching its privacy policy and disclosing personal information to a third party.The timeline of all t... |
24 August 2009
09:21 GMT |
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The Federal appeals court in New York issued a ruling on August 21, 2009 regarding an appeal filed by several music recoding companies against a previous ruling that gave Yahoo LAUNCHcast the right to play online music without paying licensing fees. The court classified LAUNCHcast as “not an interactive service... |
24 August 2009
06:35 GMT |
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“Breaking Dawn,” the fourth book in the “Twilight” series written by Stephenie Meyer, is not actually Meyer’s work, another female author claims in court papers. Jordan Scott, who made the claim that “Breaking Dawn” was almost identical to her “The Nocturne” a whi... |
20 August 2009
04:59 GMT |
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While US officials are bent on taking a hard stance against illegal file sharing, with courts awarding millions in damages left and right for a handful of shared songs, other countries are more lenient and have more proportionate penalty systems. As such, a man in Finland found guilty of sharing music online was orde... |
19 August 2009
06:57 GMT |
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Not that it surprises anyone at this point, but Facebook is facing another lawsuit, this time in California. Five individual users have filed a suit in the Orange County Superior Court claiming the site violates several state laws related to privacy and protection of personal data especially concerned with the site s... |
18 August 2009
09:14 GMT |
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Online video has always been a tricky issue for services offering hosting and sharing because the companies providing the services have little control over what their users share. It took YouTube years to get some effective anti-piracy tools and the problem still isn't completely gone. The same problem now plagu... |
18 August 2009
07:09 GMT |
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New information is available regarding the legal battle between Apple Inc. and Florida-based Mac cloner Psystar. Reportedly, Apple has filed a new document alleging Psystar erased crucial evidence, thus violating federal rules and a court order. The trial is scheduled to start on January 11, 2010. "Defendant, Psysta... |
17 August 2009
10:13 GMT |
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The future doesn't look very bright for illegal file sharers, at least in the US, after two high-profile cases have seen record statutory damages awarded to the RIAA – damages that the US Department of Justice believes are constitutional, defending the $1.92 million in damages Jammie Thomas-Rasset now has ... |
17 August 2009
04:15 GMT |
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Tagged.com finds itself in even more legal trouble after two California residents have sued the social network for allegedly tricking them into sharing their email contacts and using those contacts for false advertising. Miriam Slater of Santa Barbara and Sara Golden of Los Angeles who filed the suit are seeking clas... |
14 August 2009
09:21 GMT |
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The acquisition of the On2 video technology company that Google announced last week may not go as smoothly as first hoped, as many On2 shareholders are dissatisfied with the terms of the deal. Despite Google having offered a 57 percent premium on the closing price of the shares the day before it was announced, some s... |
13 August 2009
06:47 GMT |
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With the date of the Pirate Bay sale getting closer the legal troubles have increased and the site is being attacked in court rooms in several countries. One such lawsuit recently ended in the Netherlands with the site being asked to shut down in the country and given a 10-day window to do it. That window would have ... |
10 August 2009
10:55 GMT |
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The Cupertino, Calif.-based Mac maker is facing a lawsuit from one of its former employees, with the suit alleging that Apple has failed to pay proper wages for overtime work, AppleInsider reports. According to the filings, the company allegedly demanded its employees to work 40 extra hours per week and then failed t... |
7 August 2009
03:51 GMT |
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An interesting case involving online marketing guru Jeremy Schoemaker and Google employee Keyen Farrell has been settled recently though the exact details are scarce, TechCrunch reports. In the lawsuit, Schoemaker accused Farrell, who was an AdWords account strategist for Google at the time, of bypassing the AdWords... |
6 August 2009
06:52 GMT |
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New Jersey authorities have decided to charge Daniel Gonclaves with several domain theft-related felonies. The 25-year-old computer geek is accused of stealing the P2P.com domain name from Marc Ostrofsky, Lesli and Albert Angel in 2006, which he later sold to NBA superstar Mark Madsen for 110,000 dollars. Beside... |
5 August 2009
10:44 GMT |
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Method Man, real name Clifford Smith, has the strangest way of saying “no” to an autograph request, a woman from Fort Bend County, Texas, says. In court documents filed a few days ago, the female fan claims Method Man shot her six times with an air gun in the chest and torso area when she asked for his au... |
5 August 2009
05:20 GMT |
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Although he’s making an estimated $14 million for each movie he puts out no matter how it fares at the box-office, Nicolas Cage is rather sloppy when it comes to paying his taxes. The actor is currently investigated for owing the IRS over $6.2 million in unpaid back taxes, and may even face jail time if he&rsqu... |
4 August 2009
06:21 GMT |
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In another case of outrageous damages awarded to the recording industry, a Boston student has been ordered to pay $675,000 for illegally sharing 30 songs with the file-sharing, peer-to-peer application Kazaa. The verdict came after only three hours of deliberation from the jury, once the defendant, Joel Tenenbaum, ad... |
1 August 2009
07:22 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay has never lacked the media's attention, but, lately, it looks like something new is happening every day at the soon-to-be sold site. Recently sued by several US movie studios, again, and ordered to shut down operations in The Netherlands, the site is getting hit with yet another lawsuit, this time... |
1 August 2009
05:49 GMT |
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Lawsuits come with the territory when you're the size of Facebook, especially in the suit-happy US, but, while most carry no real threat, they can be irritating, not to mention expensive. Last November, a company called Leader Technologies sued Facebook for patent infringement on a technology it describes as &ld... |
1 August 2009
05:14 GMT |
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Despite the upcoming sale of the Pirate Bay, or perhaps because of it, more lawsuits are hitting the bittorrent site. Recently several major US movie studios have filed a new suit against the site asking for all operations to cease but, in the meantime, the ruling in a case filed by BREIN, a Dutch anti-piracy outfit,... |
31 July 2009
07:06 GMT |
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EBay acquired Skype in 2005, planning to integrate it with its auctions site to provide communication tools to sellers and buyers. It didn't quite turn out as planned, though the service is making decent amounts of money, and now eBay wants to spin off the company in an IPO, but those plans may be derailed by a ... |
31 July 2009
06:17 GMT |
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Brutal Legend is one of the biggest new projects coming out this fall, guaranteeing to take players on a heavy metal-themed ride through a thrilling land of fantasy. Set to feature rock stars like Jack Black, Ozzy Osbourne or Lemmy, the game will definitely make a nice sum of money for Double Fine, its developer, and... |
31 July 2009
03:53 GMT |
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