Los Angeles - The federal judge overseeing settlement talks between Capitol Records and convicted file-swapper Jammie Thomas-Rassett has appointed a special master to "promote meaningful settlement discussions,"...

Berlin - A German court ruled last week that Google's (NASD: GOOG) YouTube must compensate the copyright holder of several musical video performances posted to the site,...

Los Angeles - Mulve, a free music download service that has been compared to the original Napster, has received a Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedown...

Cupertino, Calif. — Apple Inc.'s Korean business unit was ordered to pay compensation to a user of its popular iPhone after collecting location data...

Washington - The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a bill that aims to bring closed captioning to Web-based television rebroadcasts. The Twenty-first Century Communications...

Los Angeles - A class action lawsuit has been filed against Sony (NYSE: SNE), over its intention to disable the ability of PlayStation 3 owners to run...

Google Inc. Chairman Eric Schmidt was on the hot seat today, facing panel of senators demanding to know if Google abused its position as the leading search engine to give unfair prominence to its own businesses, particularly in a areas like shopping, travel services, stock quotes, and maps and driving directions. The complete text of Schmidt's statement is available below. The hearing before the Senate Judiciary antitrust subcommittee appeared on the schedule as, “The Power of Google: Serving Consumers or Threatening Competition?”