Judges Say No To Crack, Refuse 'Crackberry' Trademark
Embattled BlackBerry maker Research In Motion got a rare bit of good news this week after judges refused to let a gadget site trademark the… Read more at paidContent »
Why U.S. Prosectors Won't Be Filing Corruption Charges Against News Corp
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What if the scandal involving bribery, phone-hacking and News Corp landed in an American courtroom? It would be a great story. But despite t… Read more at paidContent »
EC Says Telco Standards Could Make €110 Billion New Digital Content Market
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The European Commission reckons it could unlock €110 ($147.99/£93.27) billion a year in new digital business by harmonising rules for the… Read more at paidContent »
Justin Bieber Sued By App Maker ‘Joustin Beaver’
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What’s with Biebs and these lawsuits? Last year, a deranged woman took him to court, claiming she was his baby-moma. Now, the teenage celeb… Read more at paidContent »
Google, Apple Hit With Patent Over Street View For iPad
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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) are in a worldwide squabble over smartphone patents, but they will have to cooperate long enough… Read more at paidContent »
Point, Apple: Motorola Must Wait On iOS ban In Germany
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The legal tennis match over smartphone patents is still dragging on, and it was Apple Read more at paidContent »
$850 For Everyone? What Happens Next In The AT&T Throttling Case
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An out-of-work truck driver from California made headlines on Friday when he turned the tables on AT&T (NYSE: T), and stuck it to the phone… Read more at paidContent »
Privacy Group Whiffs On Attempt To Enforce FTC’s Rules On Google
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A federal judge today declined to order the Federal Trade Commission to take action against Google (NSDQ: GOOG) over impending changes to th… Read more at paidContent »
Amazon Sued Over Kindle Screensavers
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Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), already facing a number of patent lawsuits over its Kindle e-readers, was hit with a new one this week. Read more at paidContent »
Stanford’s Jonathan Mayer On Fixing Privacy
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Jonathan Mayer is the grad student whose research on internet tracking set off an explosive series of media reports and a flurry of privacy… Read more at paidContent »
Big Tech, Obama And The Politics Of Privacy
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The White House announced major privacy initiatives this week amidst a growing hubbub over how technology companies use consumers’ personal… Read more at paidContent »
The Pinfluence Of Pinterest: Magazines And More Delight In Découpage
If Pinterest is attracting heat for copying publishers’ content, perhaps it’s only fair that publishers give the same treatment to the buddi… Read more at paidContent »
Facebook Scammer Ceglia Created ‘Get Zuck’ Email Account
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Things are going from bad to worse for Paul Ceglia, the small time con artist who a year ago had the press and investors at the edge of thei… Read more at paidContent »
Apple fights for iPad trademark in China’s largest city
Apple continued its trademark battle over iPad in China Wednesday in Shanghai, China’s largest city and one of the most important places for Apple to sell devices. Proview wants to ban the iPad from stores while Apple argues selling them is in China’s best national interest. Read more »
Google Browser-gate: Here Come The Lawsuits
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Like night follows day, class action lawsuits follow privacy breaches. The Wall Street Journal (NSDQ: NWS) reported on Friday that Google (N… Read more at paidContent »
Coinstar Investors Propose $6 Million Settlement Over Redbox Stock Dive
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Investors have filed to settle a lawsuit that claims Coinstar wrongfully juiced its share price by failing to disclose that some studios had… Read more at paidContent »
Paramount Sues Puzo Estate Over ‘Godfather’ Sequels
The studio behind the famous Godfather trilogy is asking a court to make the franchise’s literary heirs an offer they can’t refuse. Read more at paidContent »
Don’t Shoot The Messenger Over User Content, Courts Confirm
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People are lining up to sue sites like Yelp and Ripoff Report over their users’ misbehavior, but courts continue to slam the door in their f… Read more at paidContent »
Court Comes Down Hard On Facebook Spammer
A California court ruled yesterday that social media site Power.com breached the Can-Spam Act and state criminal law when it induced Faceboo… Read more at paidContent »
Google On Defensive Yet Again In Snafu Over Ad-Tracking In Safari Browsers
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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) continues to find itself in compromising positions in 2012: the latest comes after an investigation by The Wall Street J… Read more at paidContent »
Open Road Responds To HarperCollins E-Book Lawsuit
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Open Road Media responded today to the lawsuit that HarperCollins filed against it in December over the digital rights to Jean Craighead Geo… Read more at paidContent »
Goliath vs. Goliath: Patent Beast Intellectual Ventures Sues AT&T
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A controversial investment fund run by a former Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) executive just added more fuel to the tech industry’s runaway patent… Read more at paidContent »
More Stores In China Being Told To Remove iPads In Apple Trademark Dispute
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Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is no stranger to legal disputes around the globe over its mobile products, but it’s running into a problem that has noth… Read more at paidContent »
Google: Android Won’t Share Personal Info With Apps Unless You Let It
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In response to the uproar over how mobile iOS applications have had access to address-book data without having to inform the user, Google (N… Read more at paidContent »
Updated: Time For Apple To Fix How iOS Handles Contact Data
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A week after mobile social network Path found itself in the tech industry spotlight for uploading iOS contacts without explicit permission,… Read more at paidContent »
Updated: Book Publishers Force Down Piracy Sites
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Update: Andi Sporkin of the Association of American Publishers contacted me shortly after this story was published. She says the publishers… Read more at paidContent »
Why The Diller-Backed Aereo Will Need Some Fancy Lawyers
Broadcasters have a history of squashing disruptive technologies in court — and the new cord-cutting service Aereo could well be their next… Read more at paidContent »
Judge Orders Facebook ‘Owner’ To Pay Social Network $75K
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A year ago, an upstate New York man held the media in thrall with a tale that Mark Zuckerberg had signed over 84% of Facebook to him in exch… Read more at paidContent »
Fair Use Or Free Riding? The AP’s New Attack On News Scraping
The Associated Press is becoming more aggressive in trying to rein in the information the news service scatters around the world. After help… Read more at paidContent »
Interviews: Meltwater Appeals UK Web News Fees As Both Sides Claim Victory
The Newspaper Licensing Agency (NLA) and Meltwater put their own contrasting spins on Tuesday’s setting by the UK’s Copyright Tribunal of th… Read more at paidContent »
Meltwater, UK Newspapers Each Get Partial Victory In Web Fees Ruling
In its ruling setting copying fees for news monitor clients who receive newspaper websites’ online story clippings, the UK’s Copyright Tribu… Read more at paidContent »
Chinese company wants iPad imports, exports banned
Apple is in the middle of a legal dispute in China over who owns the “iPad” trademark. A company called Proview has asked its government to ban the import and export of iPads, which could be problematic for Apple since the tablet is built in China. Read more »
Justice Dept, EU Approve Google’s Motorola Purchase
The US government and the European Commission today gave the green light to Google’s $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola (NYSE: MMI) Mobil… Read more at paidContent »
One Chinese City Raids An Apple Reseller In Growing iPad Trademark Row
Government officials in the city of Shijiazhuang raided an unnamed Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) reseller (not an official brand store) over the weeken… Read more at paidContent »
HuffPo Blog Formerly Known As Parentlode Will Now Be Called ‘Parentry’
It’s always tough to come up with a unique name for your offspring, but a little lawsuit sure can get the creative juices flowing. And so st… Read more at paidContent »
Update: Netflix Pays $9 Million To Settle Video Privacy Lawsuit
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Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) disclosed this afternoon that it will pay to settle nationwide claims that it illegally retained customers’ rental hist… Read more at paidContent »
Apple Sues Motorola In San Diego To Stop German Patent Case
Where will this all end? Both Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) are sitting on billions in cash and seem intent on blowing a good p… Read more at paidContent »
Pinterest: Is It A Facebook Or A Grokster?
Copyright clouds are gathering around Pinterest. And that could make the dreamy image site an unlikely successor to other innovators — from… Read more at paidContent »
Apple Files New Patent Lawsuit Against Samsung In California
Apple’s global campaign to stop its Korean rival from selling smartphones and tablets has faltered in recent months, but the iPhone-maker ap… Read more at paidContent »
Amazon Adds Clinton Alum Gorelick To Board
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is adding a power presence in the other Washington and a corporate governance advisor to its board: Jamie Gorelick, who… Read more at paidContent »
