Legal Edge

Handling about 550,000 copyright claims annually, the U.S. Copyright Office in the Library of Congress is making it much easier for the public to register and protect its collective creativity. On July 1, the Copyright Office will enter the next phase in the implementation of its multi-year business process reengineering effort to modernize operations […]

Three separate proposed settlements totaling $160,750,000.00 have been reached in a class action lawsuit concerning prices of DRAM with defendants: Infineon Technologies AG and Infineon Technologies North American Corp.; Samsung Semiconductor, Inc.; and Hynix Semiconductor Inc. and Hynix Semiconductor America, Inc. These are the first settlements reached in this litigation, which will continue against the […]

Reuters reports (via Silicon.com):
The Texas attorney general said on Wednesday [Dec. 21] that he added a new claim to a lawsuit charging Sony BMG Music Entertainment with violating the state’s laws on deceptive trade practices by hiding “spyware” on its CDs.

As I predicted, the EFF will file a lawsuit in Los Angeles County Superior Court against Sony BMG for the problems caused by the First4Internet XCP CDs - it is also filing for the problems caused by the SunnComm MediaMax CD copy protection software.
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Google has been forced to rename the Gmail service in England to Google Mail.
This happened under a lot of pressure from a company called ‘International Investment Research’ (IIR). It claims to have a service called G-Mail, which was introduced in May 2002. This service was launched two years before Google launched its online mail […]

There are likely some hundreds of thousands of blogs out there, if not more. Most of them begin with a burning desire to find an outlet for their authors, who feel that they have something to say. However, as we’ve all seen lately, actually saying it can be dangerous.