The city of Houston has filed a lawsuit against online hotel bookers for keeping money the city claims should go towards its occupancy tax."We believe the (online) companies are, essentially, pocketing the money that should go to occupancy tax," Mayor Bill White told the Houston Chronicle. "It’s unfair to those who are paying the price where the full taxes are paid."
eBay Lawsuit Over “Neutral” Feedback
Living in a Radically Transparent world is, it seems, not without risk. Apparently a Seattle man was recently sued for $10,000 because he left a “Neutral” rating for an eBay seller from North Carolina.
eBay’s Lawsuit Against Craigslist
I know you’re getting bored with all the other Internet marketing intrigues out there, so here’s a new one: eBay is suing craigslist. Tantalizing, isn’t it?
Deep Linking Issues Return As Music Lawsuit Hits Baidu, Sohu
Chinese search engines Baidu and Sohu face millions in penalties as Sony BMG, Warner Music Group, and Universal Music demand satisfaction over links to songs controlled by the labels.
“Boring” Lawsuit Confronts Google Street View
It was only a matter of time before Google got sued over Street View; the real question was which privacy group (or sympathetic person representing a privacy group) would be first to file. And now a couple with the last name "Boring" has beaten them all to it.
SeeqPod Finds Warner Lawsuit
The Electronic Frontier Foundation called the Warner Music Group lawsuit against SeeqPod “an attack by the entertainment industry on the DMCA safe harbors that protect hosting services and search engines.”
Writers Ding Viacom Over Google Lawsuit
Even though Hollywood executives claim this Internet thing is too new for them to figure out how much they can cut out of it for writers, the scribes pointed out Viacom seems to have an idea.
MP3Tunes Fights EMI’s Funky Lawsuit Music
A lawsuit brought forth by recording industry giant EMI against MP3Tunes again raises some fundamental questions about digital music ownership and link aggregation.
Comcast Faces BitTorrent Interference Lawsuit
A California Comcast customer called the company’s claims of fast Internet connections fraudulent due to their use of traffic shaping technology that hinders torrents.
New Class Action iPhone Lawsuit
Apple and AT&T were named in a class-action lawsuit last week filed in federal court that alleges that the companies illegally conspired to keep customers in AT&T’s wireless network.