Digital music sales are soaring, but that hasn’t stopped the recording industry from continuing to spin its long-running woe-is-me tale of piracy and declining revenues.
According to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry’s 2008 Digital Music Report (PDF), global digital music sales rose to $2.9 billion in 2007, up from $2.1 billion in 2006.
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NTP has finally found a good use for the $612.5 million patent settlement it won from BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion last year: underwriting more patent-infringement lawsuits.
Last Friday the patent holding firm sued AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile for infringing on its portfolio of mobile email-services patents and demanded they pay royalties on the sales of [...]
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The laundry rooms at Sun Microsystems and Network Appliance must be on the fritz, because the two companies have begun washing their dirty laundry in public. Yesterday, NetApp sued Sun, alleging that its ZFS storage software, a key element of its Solaris operating system, violates seven NetApp patents. Dave Hitz, co-founder of NetApp, explained the [...]
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Thought the principle of liability was well settled? Think again. The judge presiding over Atlantic v. Howell has ruled in favor of the Recording Industry Association of America, finding that making content available for distribution over an Internet connection is in and of itself a copyright infringement –regardless of whether that content is ever distributed.
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They’ve got a steep, steep learning curve over there at Perfect 10. Having unsuccessfully sued Amazon and Google for copyright infringement, the “publisher of tasteful model and supermodel images” has filed suit against Microsoft.
Like those brought against Google and Amazon before it, the lawsuit alleges that Microsoft’s MSN image search displays thumbnail images linking to [...]
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The National Legal and Policy Center has finished up its latest list of potentially copyright infringing movies on YouTube and Google Video, and it’s largely what you’d expect. Not the “New Releases” tab on Netflix, but not exactly the dusty DVD display rack at the local convenience store, either.
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