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Chinese State Media Against New Guns N’ Roses Album
Rock band Guns N’ Roses has released its first studio album
in fifteen years and its provocative...
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Blogger to Plead Guilty in Guns N' Roses Case
The blogger accused of leaking the album “Chinese Democracy," of the Guns N' Roses band, will...
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MTV Announces Rock Band-Like Beatles Video Game
"Rock Band" creators MTV Games and Harmonix jointly announced they've worked out a deal...
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GN'R's “Chinese Democracy” To Finally Reach American Ground
Rock stars are said to be eccentric, but spending over 17
years in a studio is more than peculiar...
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iLike Steps Helps Unsigned Artists Promote Their Music
Recently the popular music service iLike has teamed with TuneCore in order to help artists promote...
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Foo Fighters Angry with McCain’s Use of Song
Republican presidential nominee John McCain may have found
inspiration in the Foo Fighter’s single...
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Yoko Ono Drops Lawsuit over Use of John Lennon Song
John Lennon’s very famous widow, Yoko Ono, and record
company EMI have dropped a lawsuit against...
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British singers found coalition to assert rights with record labels
London - British music stars Robbie Williams, Radiohead, Kate Nash, The Verve and the Kaiser Chiefs...
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McCain's Usage of "Right Now" in Ohio Annoys Van Halen
John McCain used Van Halen's "Right Now" during his big entrance in Ohio, following in...
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Slash Comments On Blogger's Arrest Over Guns N' Roses Song Leak
Former Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash commented on a California man's arrest on suspicion of...
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Blogger Kevin Cogill’s Next Years-Not a Bed of Roses
After posting 9 tracks from the unreleased Guns N’ Roses
album “Chinese Democracy” on his blog in...
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Pandora Internet Radio Doomed by Unreasonable Royalties
Tim Westergren, the founder of the Internet radio company Pandora, warned that he might have to...
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John McCain Sued For Copyright Infringement
US
presidential candidate John McCain is the recipient of a lawsuit for copyright
infringement....
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Radiohead Upset about Prince's Uptightness
During the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, on April 26, Prince covered Radiohead's...
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Widow Of Sammy Davis Jr. Sues Ex Business Partners
The widow of Sammy Davis Jr. decided to sue two former
business partners for the rights of his...
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Not So Romantic About Guitar Hero
A Detroit rock band called the Romantics has filed a lawsuit against Activision, publisher of the...
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Britney’s ‘Blackout’ Drops This Month
All Britney’s fans will be able celebrate Halloween listening to her new album which hits the...
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Prince Sues Web Companies Over Copyright Infringement
The artist formerly known as Prince has decided to “reclaim
the Internet and he is preparing to...
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Wal-Mart Sells DRM-Free Songs
World’s largest retailer Wal-Mart has begun selling DRM-free tracks in an attempt to make its music...
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Avril Lavigne Sued Over Stolen Song
Canadian singer Avril Lavigne is facing a lawsuit by the members of a ‘70s rock band who are...
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Specials
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MySpace, MTV to Strike Deal to Cash in on Web Video Clips
MySpace and online advertising technology company Auditude are working on a deal with Viacom Inc's...
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MTV And MySpace To Experiment With Profit From Unauthorized Content
Since the day video streaming services have appeared on the Internet there have been issues...
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YouTube Answers McCain’s Accusations over Removed Campaign Videos
Presidential candidate John McCain accused YouTube for removing his campaign videos. The Republican...
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President Bush Signs Copyright Infringement Bill
Yesterday, United States President George W. Bush signed a
bill related to the highly debated...
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Senate Passes New Copyright Bill
A new bill dealing with intelectual property theft, which includes patent and trademark...
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Jammie Thomas Gets A Mistrial And Hopes For A Better Decision
The case of Jammie Thomas, the woman found guilty and
ordered to pay a $220,000 fine, takes a new...
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New Trial granted In P2P Piracy Case
In the case of the Minnesota woman who had been convicted of violating copyright laws by...
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Hitchcock’s “Rear Window” Classic Disturbed by Spielberg’s Rip Off
Is “Disturbia” just a modern copy (not cheap) of Alfred
Hitchcock’s 1954 “Rear Window”? It sure...
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The One of a Kind Harry Is Safe! Fan’s Lexicon Blocked by Court
J.K. Rowling can breathe a sigh of relief. A U.S. judge on
Monday brought to a standstill the...
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J.K. Rowling Victorious In Harry Potter Lexicon Copyright Case
British author J.K. Rowling has won her legal battle against die-hard Harry Potter fan, Steven...
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Google Backs Down After Being Caught with Prohibitive EULA
Apparently Google’s Chrome browser which was released on
Tuesday is a good reminder for us to...
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Stephenie Meyer Upset By Web Leak, Postpones “Midnight Sun”
Stephenie Meyer, the author of the best-selling “Twilight”
books about vampires, has announced she...
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Update: Blogger Arrested, Bailed Over Guns N’ Roses Copyright Infringement
A 27-year-old man from Culver City, Los Angeles, was
arrested Wednesday by federal police on...
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Blogger Arrested For Leaking Guns N’ Roses Tracks
Federal officials on Wednesday arrested a blogger for posting on the Internet songs from the...
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“Fair Use” Is Not To Be Ignored By Copyright Owners
A California
judge, Jeremy Fogel, ruled that content owners must consider “fair use”...
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Watch Out “Watchmen”! Fox’s Lawsuit Over Warner May Proceed
Warner Brothers’ “Watchmen” may be in big trouble. Twentieth
Century Fox announced on Monday that...
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This Might Be The End For Pandora ?
According to The
Washington Post, the popular web radio service Pandora is on the verge...
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Jackson Browne Is Not On McCain’s Side
The songwriter and liberal political activist Jackson Browne
has filed a lawsuit today against...
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Scrabulous Resurrected As Wordscrapper On Facebook
A new version of Scrabulous is back on Facebook and it is
called Wordscraper. The old one...
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Scrabulous Is No More On Facebook
The immensely popular online game has been taken off Facebook, as Hasbro, the company which holds...
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Facebook Connect: Online Social Networking Will Never Be The Same
On Thursday, during the second annual F8 developer conference in San Francisco, social networking...
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Hasbro, Owner of Scrabble, Sues Scrabulous Creators
American toy company Hasbro Inc has allegedly sued the creators of a Scrabble knock-off called...
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Larry Harmon, of Bozo the Clown Fame, Dies at 83
Larry Harmon, the man who gave life to Bozo the Clown for more than five decades, to the enjoyment...
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Mini-Me Sues TMZ
Verne
Troyer, who played Mini-Me in the last two Austin Powers
movies, filed a 20 million-dollar...
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YouTube Defends Its Activity In Front Of Copyright Accusations
Viacom sued Google last year for 1$ billion, on the count
that its video sharing service YouTube...
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Copyright Pirate Faces Five Years In Prison
Barry Gitarts, 25, member of the Apocalypse Production Crew (APC), was found guilty on Thursday of...
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Lexicon Author Cries, Rowling Indomitable, Judge Says Settle
The adventure of the unauthorized “Harry Potter Lexicon”
continues, with the passionate reader and...
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Rowling Tells Court of “Heartache” Caused by Plagiarism
Famed British writer J. K. Rowling, who is trying to stop the
publication of an unauthorized Harry...
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J.K. Rowling Takes The Stand In Lexicon Case
Testifying in court today in the ongoing the case of Warner Bros. and J.K. Rowling v. RDR Books,...
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J. K. Rowling Goes To Court over Alleged Plagiarism
Famed Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling is to testify in a New York court Monday, against the...
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Business
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MGM To Show Full-Length Movies On YouTube
While as far as short, user-generated content is concerned,
YouTube is the undisputed No.1 video...
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MySpace and MTVN Make Deal to Monetize Copyrighter Content
MTV Networks have operated a major attitude change from
recent years as far as copyrighted content...
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MTV Networks and MySpace Strike Video Upload Deal
More and more companies, networks and the like are starting to realize that the digital era is here...
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Google Settles Copyright Lawsuits With Publishers And Authors
Google
Incorporated was reported to have been scheduled to pay $125 million in order
to settle...
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Update1: Royalty Rates For Songs Remain The Same
The Copyright Royalty Board reached a conclusion yesterday
on the highly debated case about...
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Major Movie Studios Sue to Ban DVD Copying Software
Tuesday, six Hollywood movie studios have sued RealNetworks over
the latter’s software program...
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Movie Studios Attack RealNetworks' Product
Last week’s release of RealNetworks’ RealDVD program was
received by Hollywood’s major movie...
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RealNetworks And MPAA Go At It In Federal Court Over RealDVD
United States movie studios and digital media pioneer RealNetworks will battle each other in the...
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Future Looking Good For Pandora Streaming Service
This weekend struggling streaming music site Pandora urged
its users and fans to contact their...
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Judge Declares Mistrial for Jammie Thomas in $222k RIAA Case
After expressing doubts about the validity of his decision, Judge
Michael Davis of the Duluth,
...
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New Royalty Rates For The Online Music Industry
A recently reached agreement between songwriters, music
publishers, record labels and online music...
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Pro-Veoh Ruling May Help Muxtape, Maybe Google
The ruling of a Northern California
judge to dismiss the copyright infringement case against Veoh...
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Veoh Cleared Of Copyright Accusations
According to a Californian district court, Veoh is not
guilty of copyright infringement, the...
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Psystar Fights Back By Sending Apple To Court
Psystar, the Mac clone maker taken to court by Apple on
copyright infringement accusations,...
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Scrabulous Is Unavailable Worldwide
Facebook’s decision to pull the plug on the popular Scrabble
clone known as Scrabulous is now...
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Pandora Radio Might Be Going Out Of Business
A recent report about the music service Pandora and its
upcoming plans was recently released,...
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Pandora Internet Radio Doomed By Unreasonable Royalties
Tim Westergren, the founder of the Internet radio company Pandora, warned that he might have to...
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Court Approves Cablevision's DVR Service
An appeals court ruled that Cablevision's DVR service does not infringe copyright laws. The...
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Italian TV Group Mediaset Sues YouTube
Besides its legal dispute with Viacom, Google owned YouTube has another reason to worry about. The...
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Oracle Corp. Elaborates on Theft Accusations against SAP
Oracle Corp., the world's second- largest software producer, elaborated on the accusations it...
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There Will Be No More Illegal Music and Movie Downloading in the UK
On Tuesday, Britain announced the beginning of a great fight against online piracy, with regard to...
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Facebook Files Suit Against Similarly-Designed German Networking Site
On Friday, Facebook pressed charges against studiVZ, a Germany-based social networking website; the...
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Apple Sues Psystar
Apple finally sued Psystar, a newcomer company which manufactures Mac clones. Apple asked that all...
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Viacom’s Possible Approach in YouTube Case
As everyone probably knows by now, within the Viacom – Google legal dispute, the latter was ordered...
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Apple Takes Psystar To Court
Apple Inc. decided on taking legal action against Psystar
Corp., a company that made a name for...
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Tiffany Vs eBay Fight Ends
On Monday, eBay came out of the legal battle against Tiffany on top, as a federal judge considered...
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Viacom Backs Off Request To Obtain YouTube Users' Viewing Histories
The Viacom vs. Google legal battle is far from being settled, but the two parts did manage to reach...
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YouTube to Hand over User Information to Viacom, Court Decides
A July 1 ruling gave Viacom access to YouTube’s huge database, a 12 Terabytes collection of user...
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CopiePresse Seeks €49 Million Worth Of Retribution From Google
The Belgian newspaper copyright group CopiePresse has filed
a suit against the search engine...
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Warner Music May Propose A Tax For Online Music
It appears that Warner Music Group is thinking
of a way to have Internet providers add a $5...
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Technology
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Judge Dismisses Psystar’s Countersuit Claims As Ungrounded
A federal judge dismissed Psystar’s countersuit accusing Apple
of anticompetitive business...
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YouTube Set To Deliver Full-Length MGM Movies
The MGM studio is eager to monetize its library however possible and it will allow YouTube to...
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MTV And MySpace Join Forces To Make Online Piracy Profitable
There’s always a solution and great potential to make money
out of anything, even out of...
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Psystar Not Confident Mediation Will Solve the Legal Dispute with Apple
The controversial legal dispute between Apple and Psystar
Corp. is far from settling, despite the...
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YouTube Doesn't Share McCain’s Views On DMCA Takedown Notices
Earlier this week, YouTube received a letter from the John
McCain – Sarah Palin duo, complaining...
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John McCain Unhappy With YouTube’s Political Views
All videos are equal, but political videos are more equal
than others - at least that’s what...
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The PRO IP Act Has Bush By Its Side
The Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act (PRO IP) of 2008 gained...
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YouTube To Soon Offer Full-Length TV Shows
YouTube, the most famous video site in the world, is
planning to introduce full-length TV shows....
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Update: YouTube Goes e-Commerce Road With Tunes, Games
In a new effort to convert into real dollars the huge
traffic of YouTube, Google is trying a new...
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RealDVD Locked By Legal Dispute
There are a number of programs out there which are used to
rip DVDs. The technology is not new,...
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RealNetworks Halts The Sales of Real DVD
RealNetworks was forced to temporarily stop the sales of their RealDVD software, due to the legal...
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Happy Apple: CRB Leaves Royalty Rates Unchanged
Shortly after concerns that Apple might close the doors of its iTunes Store started circulating the...
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Justice For All Regarding Music Royalty Fees
The Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) decided not to change the music royalty fees for online sales....
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Apple: Any Increase In Royalty Rates Could Jeopardize iTunes’ Future
There is a battle going on in the music industry, and this
time it involves the future of Apple’s...
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