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Yinka Adegoke / Reuters:
Universal Music sues MySpace over music copyrights — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Universal Music Group, the world's largest music company, said on Friday it filed a lawsuit against popular social networking site MySpace for infringing copyrights of thousands of its artists' works.
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Cynthia Brumfield / IP Democracy:
Universal Sues MySpace for Copyright Infringement — Everybody fretted about Universal Music suing YouTube for copyright infringement given the threats lobbed in that direction by Chairman Doug Morris. But Universal cut a deal with YouTube and that settled that. — The other company that got under Morris' skin was MySpace.
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Staci D. Kramer / PaidContent:
UMG Sues MySpace Claiming Copyright Infringement: News Corp. Unit Says In Compliance — Universal Music Group continues to play hard ball in the digital realm ... With negotiations at a standstill today the Vivendi subsidiary filed suit in federal court claiming News Corp.'s MySpace is allowing …
Jennifer Tan / Reuters:
Sony Ericsson to unveil RAZR rival early '07: source — SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Sony Ericsson, the world's fourth-largest handset maker, plans to launch an ultra-slim, high-end Walkman camera phone in early 2007 to take on Motorola's blockbuster RAZR, an industry source told Reuters.
Quinn Norton / Wired News:
Polite Hackers Kick It in Korea — SEOUL, South Korea — The first international hacker conference held in this most wired of nations would never be confused with its Western forebears. Instead of jeans and T-shirts with clever slogans, attendees wore button-down shirts and pleated slacks …
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Tim Wu / Slate:
Jay-Z Versus the Sample Troll — THE SHADY ONE-MAN CORPORATION THAT'S DESTROYING HIP-HOP. — Last week, a mysterious company, Bridgeport Music Inc., sued hip-hop mogul Jay-Z, accusing him of breaking the law when he recorded his 2003 single "Justify My Thug."
Business Wire:
Hearst, The McGraw-Hill Companies and Pilot House Invest $10 Million in Gather.com, the Leader in Social Media for Grown-Ups — Traditional Media Companies Move to Leverage Power of Social Media — BOSTON, Mass.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Gather.com™, the place for engaged …
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Rafat Ali / PaidContent:Hearst, McGrawHill Invest in Gather.com; Total Raise $10 Million
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Tony / Deep Jive Interests:
Yahoo's Tentacles Spread Into Blogosphere — MyBlogLog Gobbled Up! — With Yahoo360! being widely panned as the KFC of blogging tools (oily, gives you heartburn, make you feel gross), one wonders whether or not the acquisition of MyBlogLogs by Yahoo (for 10M clams — nice!) …
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Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
RockYou's Past Catches Up — Netpickle, maker of the popular RockYou widgets, is in bit of a legal pickle. Anti-phishing company Iconix, the former employer of Netpickle co-founders Lance Tokuda and Jia Shen, claims that the duo was working on a slideshow application for Myspace as part …
Michael Kanellos / CNET News.com:
AMD designs prototype PC for the living room — Advanced Micro Devices has created a prototype PC designed to go in the living room, a place where several companies have tried to go before but almost none has succeeded. — Resembling a stereo component, the computer is designed essentially …
Evan Blass / Engadget:
Patent troll going after AMD for infringement — "Those who can, do; those who can't, sue." Although the original version of this phrase is (unfairly) used to describe teachers, we think that it does a nice job summing up the current state of the consumer electronics industry as well …
Forbes:
Yahoo's Rising Star — When Sue Decker joined Yahoo! as its chief financial officer in June 2000, both the company and the tech bubble that had lifted it up were deflating quickly. — Yahoo!'s (nasdaq: YHOO - news - people ) stock was already at half of its all-time high of $120; the Nasdaq was three month past its inflated peak.
Mike / Techdirt:
MPAA Sues Firm For Loading Legally Owned DVDs Onto iPods — from the come-again? dept — It really was just a few days ago that the entertainment industry folks were claiming that it was the consumer electronics industry that was trying to pervert "fair use," right?
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Hrmpf / hrmpf.com:
Apple proposes 'blank' iPod/phone/MacBook just add buttons — The Ultimate Customisable iPod/MacBook/Tablet- add the controls and software and make it a phone or what ever you want. — Apple has just filed a new patent application for the adding of physical controls (like buttons or sliders etc) …
SLHamlet / New World Notes:
New World Numbers: The Trouble with Two Million — While the world keeps roiling in the wake of the CopyBot controversy, the world keeps growing at astounding rates. In the last installment of her New World Numbers series— posted less than a month ago!— demographitrix Tateru Nino contemplated the meaning of a million.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
iSkoot, not Skype launched on Symbian — There is a lot of chatter amongst VoIP bloggers about the launch of Symbian version of Skype, mostly inspired by this story in The Inquirer. That is not exactly the case. — You see what happened was that iSkoot, a Cambridge …
Dean Bubley / Dean Bubley's Disruptive Wireless:
3's conversion to the Internet faith.... No IMS... but also no wVoIP... Filling in a few more details about the Hutchison 3 mobile broadband announcement.... - The company's CFO made a very public & emphatic U-turn, using terms like "tearing down the walls", and "in principle …
