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Aereo TV service gets the lawsuits it expected [with document]
Aereo, the television service backed in part by board member Barry Diller’s IAC, has had its legality challenged in two separate legal filings in the U.S. District Court.
Sites Redact the Web to Protest Proposed Legislation
Google, Wikipedia and other popular sites are partially cloaked today to demonstrate against technologically illiterate legislative proposals intended to punish counterfeiters and pirates.
Court Orders LiveUniverse to Shutter Unlicensed Lyrics Sites
Los Angeles - A federal court has ordered LiveUniverse, a
network of websites run by MySpace co-founder Brad Greenspan, to cease
operating four sites offering unlicensed...
Russian Music Uploader Faces Criminal Copyright Charges
Moscow - Russian prosecutors have filed criminal online
copyright infringement charges against a 26-year-old accused of posting 18
tracks on Russian social network Vkontakte, Agence France-Presse...
New advocacy group speaks on behalf of the Internet
A new trade group representing the interests of Internet companies is set to launch on September 19, with the politically experienced Michael Beckerman as its inaugural president and CEO.
GEMA Ends YouTube Licensing Talks; Wants Videos Removed
Berlin
- Licensing talks between Google's (NASD: GOOG) YouTube and GEMA have broken down, leading the
German music rightsholder group to demand that 600 videos be removed...
$1.5 Million Ruled 'Appalling' for Illegal File Sharing
A federal judge lowered the penalty levied for illegal file sharing from $1.5 million down to $54,000 on Friday, in what was the third...
Photographers File Copyright Claims Over Google Book Search
Philadelphia
- A consortium of photographers' groups on Wednesday filed a class action
copyright infringement lawsuit against Google, over the proposed inclusion of
copyrighted images found in...
Hackers Steal Lady Gaga, Timberlake MP3s, Sell Them Online
Berlin - Authorities in Germany have charged two young
hackers with breaking into the personal computers of Lady Gaga, Justin
Timberlake and other artists and stealing...
File Sharing Not Evil: EMI's Ex-president, Digital Music
Douglas Merrill grabbed considerable attention for saying that sharing music files might not be a bad thing. This sentiment has been voiced before, but not by someone who had been chief operating officer of New Music and president of Digital Business at EMI Music. Merrill also was chief information officer and vice president of engineering at Google, and now he's CEO of ZestCast, so he's not an easily dismissed firebrand demanding that information wants to be free.
