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Warner Settles Suit Against Redbox; Agrees to 28-day Window
Burbank,
Calif. - Time Warner's (NYSE: TWX) Warner
Bros. Home Entertainment Group on Tuesday announced that it has settled
litigation against Redbox, the automated DVD rental kiosk...
U.K. Court Acquits Stream Index TV-Links of Copyright Charges
London - TV-Links,
now-defunct U.K.
website that offered links to unauthorized streaming TV episodes on third-party
websites, has been found not guilty of conspiracy to defraud and...
DOJ Forms Task Force to Confront Intellectual Property Crimes
Washington
- In a move of interest to the software and media industries, Attorney General
Eric Holder announced on Friday the formation of a new Department...
Google Rebuts Justice Dept. Objections to Book Settlement
Washington
- Google (NASD: GOOG) has filed a rebuttal to the U.S. Department of Justice's objections to
a settlement over Google's plans to create a digital...
European Court of Justice to Hear File-Sharing Filtering Case
Brussels
- A Belgian court has referred a case set to determine whether ISPs can be
compelled to filter file-sharing traffic on their networks to the...
File-swapper Headed for Third Trial on Copyright Charges
Los Angeles - The Recording Industry Association of America
(RIAA) has rejected a judge's order reducing the damages convicted file-swapper
Jammie Thomas-Rasset from $1.92 million to...
Norwegian Court Rules ISP Need Not Block The Pirate Bay
Oslo, Norway - A Norwegian court has
ruled that Internet service provider Telenor does not have to block access to
file-sharing hub The Pirate Bay, according...
Aussie Man to Pay Nintendo $1.3M for Pirating Wii Mario Game
Sydney
- An Australian man has agreed to pay Nintendo $1.3 million in damages and
reimburse $87,000 in legal costs, as part of a settlement reached...
Italian Court Reinstates ISP Block on The Pirate Bay
Los Angeles - An Italian
court has ruled that ISPs in the country must block access to file-sharing hub
The Pirate Bay, reinstating a ban that...
Google to Appeal French Court Ruling on Digital Book Index
Paris
- Google (NASD: GOOG) has appealed a French court ruling that prohibited the company from
digitizing French authors' works for inclusion in its massive book index
without...
