Warner Bros, Rowling Sue RDR Books Over Harry Potter Guide
Time-Warner Inc. (TWX) unit Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. and Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling sued a Michigan publishing company on Wednesday over a planned unofficial guide to the Harry Potter universe.
Hulu Launches Private Beta, Makes Very Good First Impressions
While we have not been able to try out the private beta ourselves yet, I was very impressed by the preview of Hulu’s interface and the bulk of its features.
File Sharing Protocols to Diverge Next Year
Recently, part of the BitTorrent protocol has been turned closed source, and The Pirate Bay has asserted that this gives BitTorrent, Inc. too much power.
RIAA denied default judgement as judge cites doubt over positive ID
A federal judge has denied the RIAA's motion for default judgment in the case of Atlantic v. Dangler, a case where alleged infringer Jeff Dangler failed to appear in court.
University Defies RIAA Demand to Release Student Downloaders' Names
The University of Oregon (my alma mater, coincidentally) is believed to be the first US educational institution to refuse an RIAA demand to hand over the names of students alleged to have illegally downloaded music.
Grokster Case Lumbers On; Judge To Issue Permanent Injunction | Privacy Digest
The issue now before the judge is what relief to grant the copyright-owner plaintiffs against StreamCast, which is the only defendant still standing.
Nine Inch Nails Frontman Was a Member of OiNK | TorrentFreak
frontman of Nine Inch Nails isn’t worried: “I had an account there” he said. “it was like the world’s greatest record store.”
After hitting a few bumps in the road, imeem seems to be hitting its stride. Comscore shows it as one of the fastest growing social sites, with 3.2 unique U.S. visitors in September
Six major Second Life content creators have filed a lawsuit (.pdf) in the Eastern District of New York claiming copyright and trademark infringement against Second Life user Thomas Simon
The Associated Press: McCain Rejects Fox Request to Cease Ad
Republican John McCain on Thursday rejected a Fox News Channel request to stop airing a television ad that includes footage of the presidential candidate at a debate sponsored by the cable network.
Report Recommends Fair Use Principles for User Generated Video Content | Citizen Media Law Project
Fair uses have been mistakenly caught up in copyright enforcement dragnets in the past. For example, earlier this year blogger Michelle Malkin's video about rapper Akon was erroneously taken down from YouTube after Universal Music Group (UMG) claimed copyright infringement.
AppleInsider | NBC chief says Apple 'destroyed' music pricing
NBC Universal chief executive Jeff Zucker on Sunday urged colleagues to take a stand against Apple's iTunes, charging that the digital download service was undermining the ability of traditional media companies to set profitable rates for their content online.
Seinfeld: Wife not guilty of 'vegetable plagiarism' - CNN.com
Jessica Seinfield's "Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Get Your Kids Eating Good Food," published this month by HarperCollins, explains how to hide nutritious vegetables in traditional recipes so children will eat them.
Cory Doctorow: A net right robocop will never work | Technology | Guardian Unlimited
It's all the rage these days: crackpot proposals to automatically police the internet for copyright violations, stopping them even before they occur.
Zero Punctuation, and the trouble with exclusive video on the web
That's the problem with having such high-profile content on your site that you've paid for: when it's in video form; it's easy to lose out when someone else wants to use it.
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