No real surprises emerged in Google’s response to Viacom’s billion-dollar copyright infringement lawsuit against YouTube: Google denied Viacom’s claims and asked for a jury trial.
Will Blogosphere Force Amazon to Withdraw Lawsuit?
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has been caught saying one thing and doing another. According to ZDNet, while Bezos was chatting at the Web 2.0 conference and promoting his company’s S3 hosting service to the crowd, he was quietly suing the pants off of Alexaholic.
AFP Settles Google News Lawsuit
The sweet sound of stacks of Euros being riffled with glee has brought an end to Agence France-Presse’s suit against Google for indexing its stories and photos for Google News.
Google’s Stock Dips Amid Lawsuit Banter
In a day that has seen the Dow Jones drop by over 200 points and the NASDAQ take a 50-point dive, Internet companies such as Microsoft and Yahoo have seen their stock prices continue in a downward spiral. Unfortunately, Google’s day hasn’t been much better.
Apple Faces Lawsuit Over DRM
Apple has faced a fair amount of scrutiny in recent weeks concerning the Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology tied to its online music store, iTunes. It now appears that the company is in for a legal battle over its DRM practices as well.
An Evel AOL Lawsuit
Daredevil Evel Knievel performs his most death-defying stunt yet: suing search engine behemoth AOL.
Lawsuit Against Google Dropped, For Now
If you don’t like the ranking your business is given by a particular search engine, you may be able to sue over it. That’s what one man did, anyway, claiming a breach of contract on Google’s part when his websites’ placements dropped. Google rectified some omissions, but it also threatened to file an anti-SLAPP motion. The websites’ owner, Mark Roberts, dropped his suit.
MPAA Hired A Hacker, Lawsuit Alleges
The Motion Picture Association of America hired a hacker to steal information from a company it accused of helping copyright violators-this according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday. In the suit, Torrentspy.com parent Valence Media alleges a man was paid $15,000 to pilfer e-mail correspondence and trade secrets.
Dell (Sort Of) Wins E-Commerce Lawsuit
Dell has won an important victory over DE Technologies, a Virginia firm that holds a patent so broad it could cover all e-commerce. A federal district judge declared parts of the patent as too “indefinite” and approved some measures of Dell’s request to have it rendered invalid.
Software Co. Suggests A Lawsuit To Google
Belgian software company ServersCheck is suing Google in a Belgian court claiming that Google’s Suggest feature as utilized on the Google Toolbar in Internet Explorer and Firefox leads searchers to illegal or cracked versions of the company’s software.