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SoundExchange Sues Music Choice For Royalty Underpayment
Hypebot reports: "SoundExchange today filed a lawsuit against cable music platform Music Choice over underpaid royalties. The action comes after an audit of Music...
Dutch Courts Order Pirate Bay Blocked, Exempt ISPs
Amsterdam - A Dutch court last week upheld copyright
infringement-related convictions of the operators of file-sharing hub The
Pirate Bay, who had claimed they no longer...
Britain Considers Social Networks Ban
Rights advocates are concerned that damage caused by the London riots will be more permanent than the broken glass and burned buildings. The U.K....
U.K. Copyright Bill Sees Amendments, Proposal From Labels
London - A provision that
would have empowered U.K.
ministers to change copyright law to address new technologies used for
infringement has been stricken from a sweeping...
Facebook Unfair and Deceptive?
Numerous privacy advocates and two Congressmen have made clear their concerns over the Facebook changes that the company announced on Sept. 22. One coalition in particular on Thursday officially asked the Federal Trade Commission to look into whether Facebook was set up so that users were sharing more information than they realized. Representatives Joe Barton (R-Texas) and Edward Markey (D-Mass.), co-chairs of the Congressional Bi-Partisan Privacy Caucus, also have requested an FTC probe of Facebook.
EFF, ACLU Challenge Govt. Over WikiLeaks Twitter Records
Alexandria, Va. - Digital civil liberties group the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the ACLU and others are challenging the U.S. government's legal motions to...
Court Ruling Leaves MP3Tunes Happier Than EMI
A New York district court ruled Monday that digital music lockers don’t need permission from the record labels, a legal position both Amazon and...
Twitter to 'Reactively' Censor by Country
Twitter is dealing with a stumbling block to its international expansion by implementing the ability to censor content from users based on their country.
Internet Activist Aaron Swartz Indicted for Document Theft
Well-known Internet entrepreneur and programmer Aaron Swartz was indicted today on charges accusing him of stealing millions of documents from the Massachusetts Institute of...
Google Faces Class Action Suit Over Buzz Privacy Issues
San Francisco
- Despite the company's attempts to address negative feedback by beefing up the
privacy features on its new Buzz social features within Gmail, Google...
