For anyone trying to understand why bloggers would give their content for free to a site like The Huffington Post — which is being sued by contributors for as much as $100 million — here’s a related question: Why do some programmers choose to create open-source software? Read more »
Web 2.0 has grown up and is calling in the lawyers. A blogger for The Huffington Post has launched a class-action arguing that writers — who agreed to provide content without pay — should get a share of the $315 million it got from AOL. Read more »
Here comes another lawsuit about a giant solar farm in California. Western Watershed Project has filed a lawsuit against the federal government over its approval of BrightSource Energy’s Ivanpah project in the Mojave Desert. Read more »
Apple has filed suit against Motorola, claiming the Droid-maker infringed on patents held by Apple relating to smartphone technologies. It’s a return fire gesture by Cupertino, since Motorola filed suit first against Apple last month, claiming it had violated 18 patents. Read more »
Today, Motorola filed suit regarding three complaints against Apple over patent infringements. The complaints deal with antenna design and other associated smartphone technologies covered in 18 patents held by Motorola. But that’s only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Apple’s legal problems. Read more »
Skyhook Wireless, the company that determines location via surrounding Wi-Fi signals, has sued Google for patent infringement and for interfering with its business. The move is part of an effort to control location data as the mobile web becomes the platform for the next generation of technology. Read more »
Academy Award winner The Hurt Locker has proven to be a hit among file sharers, even a year after it was first released — so much so that a lawsuit targeting BitTorrent users sharing the file has failed to impact the number of users downloading it. Read more »
A German appeals court recently dismissed a lower court verdict against Switzerland-based one-click host site RapidShare, noting that the company can’t be held responsible for the actions of its users. The Dusseldorf-based court also found that there are no reasonable ways for RapidShare to control file […] Read more »
Though Yelp steadfastly denies allegations — and now lawsuits — that its salespeople pressure businesses to buy advertising to remove negative reviews, the company tonight addressed them head-on. Specifically, it will become more transparent about its filtering process and give less favorable treatment to advertisers. Read more »
Hollywood has been handed a legal victory against U.K.-based Usenet indexing site Newzbin by the England and Wales High Court today. The court found Newzbin to be liable of copyright infringement and ordered it to prevent any further acts of infringement related to titles from 20th […] Read more »
A Canadian company called Hulavision has sued Hulu and founding partner NBC Universal, claiming that the broadcaster stole trade secrets and plans for a premium video site, even pilfering the company’s name, according to a report in The Hollywood Reporter. Hulavision claims that founder Eroll Hula […] Read more »
Via Apple 2.0, Oppenheimer analyst Yair Reiner asserts in a research note that Apple’s lawsuit with HTC over the iPhone interface was the culmination of “blunt talks” with other phone manufacturers. According to Reiner, starting in January Apple began closed-door discussions with OEMs regarding the company’s […] Read more »
While Tuesdays are known for Apple product launches, today the company announced not a new Mac but a lawsuit over patent infringement related to the iPhone. The target was mobile phone maker HTC, and none other than Steve Jobs was making the accusations. “We can sit […] Read more »
Following RockYou allowing 32 million users’ e-mails and passwords that had been stored in plain text to be accessed by at least one hacker through a SQL security hole, one such user has filed a proposed class action lawsuit. Read more »
A U.S. district court judge has fined music site Imeem $1.77 million after it failed to appear in court to respond to a copyright infringement lawsuit. The suit had been partially to blame for the company selling its assets to MySpace for less than $1 million. Read more »
Comcast yesterday settled a long-running class action lawsuit brought against it for throttling BitTorrent file transfers. The cable giant has agreed to pay a total of up to $16 million to users that claim to have been affected — which on a per-user basis, boils down […] Read more »
In response to a lawsuit filed by Nokia alleging infringement on 10 patents related to wireless standards and technologies, Apple has countersued based on 13 patents of its own. In a short, acerbic press release, Apple General Counsel Bruce Sewell smacked Nokia down, stating that “other […] Read more »
In an unexpected twist in the drawn-out battle between Psystar and Apple, the two companies agreed Monday to a partial settlement that could end the case after 17 months of back-and-forth between them, Computerworld is reporting. Details on the settlement are sparse, but what is known […] Read more »
InformationWeek reports that a third-party MacBook power adapter manufacturer is being sued by Apple for allegedly violating one of its patent designs. On Monday, Apple filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Media Solutions Holdings in federal district court in California. Apple says that the company is […] Read more »
If history is any guide, then recent actions by Skype co-founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom indicate that they wouldn’t hesitate killing off their own creation, unless eBay settles and pays them a lot of money. Here is why: Read more »
