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  • MySpace employs new technology to prevent copyright violations. Software, Online, Copyright, Wi-Fi, Home Cinema, Censorship, iPod, YouTube 0 NEWS

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  • BlueBeat claims it owns copyright in Beatles tracks

    BlueBeat claims it owns copyright in Beatles tracks

    Company owner says "psycho-acoustic simulation" means he can sell songs 5 November 2009 18:03 GMT

    Hank Risen, the owner of BlueBeat.com, which was found last week to be selling MP3s of the Beatles' catalogue for as little as 15p per track, has defiantly stated that he owns the copyrights in the songs that he's selling.

    EMI filed a lawsuit against the company,...

  • Disney sells millions through iTunes . Biz, Software, Disney, Apple, Copyright, LocationFree 0

    Disney sells millions through iTunes

    23.7 million TV shows and 2 million movies to be exact 11 May 2007 13:17 GMT

    Figures have been released from The Walt Disney Company's most recent fiscal quarter, and the company have reported very strong sales through Apple's iTunes store, totalling 23.7 million television episodes and two million movies, according to Disney CEO Bob Iger.

  • Viacom orders YouTube to take down 100,000 clips. Biz, Lawsuits, Copyright, YouTube, Viacom, Video on demand, Sony BMG 0

    Viacom orders YouTube to take down 100,000 clips

    All infringe of Viacom channels' copyright 6 February 2007 14:27 GMT

    Cable channel provider Viacom has demanded that YouTube remove more than 100,000 video clips that it says violates its copyright after talks between it and Google proved fruitless.

    The clips are from Comedy Central shows as well as those on Nickelodeon, MTV,...

  • YouTube user claims to have cracked HD DVD copy protection. Software, PC software, Utilities Software, Copyright, HD DVD 0

    YouTube user claims to have cracked HD DVD copy protection

    AACS was supposed to be safer than DVD's DRM 28 December 2006 11:54 GMT

    A YouTube user claims to have done what no one has done before by cracking the AACS copy-protection used on both Blu-ray and HD DVD discs.

    Going by the name of Muslix64, the hackers has posted a video on YouTube advertising his code cracking methodology, and...

  • Makers of Roxio sue rival Nero over patent infringement. Biz, Lawsuits, Copyright, Sonic Solutions, Roxio, Nero, Software, Censorship, YouTube 0

    Makers of Roxio sue rival Nero over patent infringement

    Claims of copying technology 17 November 2006 10:02 GMT

    SONIC Solutions, makers of the Roxio disc burning software has reported that it has filed a Patent Infringement Complaint Against its German competitor Nero AG and Nero Inc. for infringement of one of Sonic's video editing patents.

    The complaint, filed in...

  • MySpace employs new technology to prevent copyright violations. Software, Online, Copyright, Wi-Fi, Home Cinema, Censorship, iPod, YouTube 0

    MySpace employs new technology to prevent copyright violations

    Courts major record labels with move toward legitimate music downloading 31 October 2006 1:32 GMT

    MySpace.com is bowing to pressure from record companies and is integrating newly-developed technology to detect and block unauthorised copyrighted music uploading on to the website.

    The technology is licenced from private company Gracenote, and allows MySpace...

  • ippr urges Chancellor to change music copyright laws. Audio, Online, Music downloads, ippr, Copyright 0

    ippr urges Chancellor to change music copyright laws

    Institute says all MP3 users currently criminals 29 October 2006 17:47 GMT

    UK copyright law should be changed to include a "private right to copy" that protects users of the iPod and other MP3 players, according to a new report published today by the Institute for Public Policy Research (ippr).

    According to the Institute, the UK’s...

  • Microsoft plugs hole in DRM software

    FairUse4WM program was able to strip copy-protection from downloaded songs 29 August 2006 13:42 GMT

    Microsoft sprang into action after a technology blog published a story about a piece of software that could strip the DRM from downloaded Windows Media files.

    After engadget writers posted a story to say that they had successfully stripped the DRM from tracks...

  • Dixons group to sell its shares in The Link to O2

    Retailer continues to move further with online retail 21 June 2006 14:01 GMT

    Dixons Stores Group (DSG) is to sell its share in The Link stores to O2 in a deal worth £30 million.

    DSG owns a 60% stake in The Link, while O2 has the remaining shares.

    The sale is another move by DSG to concentrate more on online retail than on highstreet...

  • DRM causing difficulties for libraries

    The British Library's Chief Executive urges policymakers to take action 7 June 2006 15:09 GMT

    The British Library's Chief Executive, Lynne Brindley, is warning that DRM systems are creating unintended consequences that affect how digital material can be stored and disseminated by libraries, which have traditionally been protected by special exceptions under IP law.

  • Google to Wi-Fi San Francisco

    Google offers users free Wi-Fi 7 April 2006 16:49 GMT

    Google has won its bid to cover San Francisco with blanket Wi-Fi access suggesting that a series of similar schemes could soon be rolling out across the US and beyond.

    In a statement by the Department of Telecommunications and Information Services (DTIS) in San...

  • Google update Google Toolbar for Firefox. Software, Online, Utilities Software, Google, Copyright, LocationFree 0

    Google update Google Toolbar for Firefox

    New features just for that 10 percent who don't use IE 6 April 2006 17:46 GMT

    Google has updated its toolbar for Firefox users boosting feed integration with the Google Personalised Home and a number of other feed readers.

    “We've made searching better by including previous queries, spelling corrections, and suggestions for popular choices”,...

  • Google to sell a further 5.3 million shares. Biz, Results, Online, Google, Copyright, LocationFree, AOL 0

    Google to sell a further 5.3 million shares

    Got a spare $2,093,394,000 to hand? Thought so 30 March 2006 1:10 GMT

    Got a spare $2,093,394,000 to hand? Thought so. Well rather than blowing it on the biggest beer fest you could ever possibly imagine, you can use it to buy the 5.3million new shares that are to be issued by Google.

    Google announced today that it intends to issue...

  • Google blog taken over by student. Software, Online, Blogging, Google, Copyright, LocationFree 0

    Google blog taken over by student

    Thousands of fans of the Google Blog awoke this morning to see the latest post on the site was one titled " Google, fix your blog pleeasssee!" 28 March 2006 9:58 GMT

    Thousands of fans of the Google Blog awoke this morning to see the latest post on the site was one titled " Google, fix your blog pleeasssee!"

    But rather than a disgruntled employee upset with the search engine it transpired that Google had accidentally deleted...

  • Google launches Google Finance site. Software, Online, Websites, Google, Copyright, LocationFree 0

    Google launches Google Finance site

    Google has launched Google Finance to compete against Yahoo and MSN’s financial service offerings 21 March 2006 8:30 GMT

    Google has launched Google Finance to compete against Yahoo and MSN's financial service offerings.

    According to the new site “Google Finance (finance.google.com) is an early beta product that offers a broad range of information about North American stocks, mutual...

  • Google voted favourite online brand in new survey

    Survey finds superbrands online 16 March 2006 10:14 GMT

    Consumers have voted Google as their favourite online brand and the bbc.co.uk as the most trusted online brand in a new survey to discover which sites are the Superbrands of the net.

    Research commissioned by the global independent authority on branding, Superbrands,...

  • Google buy 3D company behind 3D sketching software SketchUP

    Google Earth to go proper 3D 14 March 2006 17:55 GMT

    Google seems to be on the buying rampage this month with the news that the search engine has bought @LastSoftware, the company behind SketchUp, a 3D shape designer that among other things, allows people to build 3D models for Google's Google Earth application.

  • Google maps Mars with new service. Software, Online, Mapping Software, Google, Copyright, LocationFree 0

    Google maps Mars with new service

    Google has branched from offering just maps of this planet to maps of others with the launch of Google Mars. 13 March 2006 18:04 GMT

    Google has branched from offering just maps of this planet to maps of others with the launch of Google Mars.

    “We here on Earth have long held a fascination with the planet Mars. From Percival Lowell's sketches of its surface, to the countless books and movies...

  • Google buys online word processor site Writely

    The sale of a word processing site suggests Google has eyes on Microsoft Office 10 March 2006 1:37 GMT

    Google has made the headlines again this week with the news that the search engine has bought the Web-based word processor Writely from the Silicon Valley startup Upstartle.

    In a blog entry on its website, Google said the deal was completed Monday, but didn't...

  • Surfing the net is more popular than TV

    Surfing the net is more popular than TV according to a new survey 8 March 2006 14:36 GMT

    Surfing the net is more popular than TV according to a new survey.

    The perhaps slightly bias survey by search engine giant Google has found that Britons with internet access now spend more time on the web than watching the box - and hopefully reading Pocket-lint.

  • Google rumoured to be about to offer online storage

    Google is reported to be preparing to offer online storage to web users according to company documents mistakenly leaked online 8 March 2006 14:13 GMT

    Google is reported to be preparing to offer online storage to web users according to company documents mistakenly leaked online.

    According to Reuters, the search engine reveals that the GDrive would allow users to store their all of their files within the space.

  • Disney buys Pixar for $7.4bn. Biz, Mergers, Pixar, Disney, Copyright, LocationFree 0

    Disney buys Pixar for $7.4bn

    Steve Jobs, Apple founder and CEO is to become one of the most powerful men in Hollywood following Walt Disney’s agreement to buy Pixar 25 January 2006 2:16 GMT

    Steve Jobs, Apple founder and CEO is to become one of the most powerful men in Hollywood following Walt Disney's agreement to buy Pixar, the company behind animated hits such as Toy Story and Monsters Inc for $7.4bn.

    In a statement on Pixar's website the company...

  • 20 pirates walk the plank over 50,000 pounds BPI legal action

    5 March 2005 3:00 GMT

    The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) looked overseas to see what the RIAA were doing to combat illegal filesharing. When they saw teenagers being dragged through the courts to recover the “losses” generated from downloading, they decided to copy the move over here. The...

  • Although Apple doesn’t yet have the real names of the culprits it will amend the complaint once he, she or they have been found

    Are the Apple iFlash rumours true as Apple starts suing?

    20 December 2004 8:56 GMT

    Apple Computer is suing anonymous people who leaked details about new products by posting information on the internet, courtroom documents, according to Reuters.

    In recent months rumours have seen a number of websites speculating about a range of Apple products...

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