infringement

Did you hear that Flea (of Red Hot Chili Peppers fame) is going to teach schoolchildren music?  Well, Warner Music Group (which represents the Chili Peppers) is going to teach Imeem a lesson - it’s suing the social networking site for copyright infringement.

MySpace has launched a new copyright protection tool in an effort to combat infringing video content. The tool called "Take Down Stay Down" prevents users from re-posting videos that have been previously removed at the request of copyright owners.

Cisco has sued Apple over its use of the term iPhone for its newly announced mobile device, despite reports that they were near an agreement with Apple to share the name.

When capitalizing on the social networking explosion, it's best to not be too obvious that you're ripping off somebody else - especially when everybody knows that somebody else and the high-priced lawyers that come with. For example, a site called "MySpace for Midgets" is wrong for two reasons, but we'll just focus on one.

International Business Machines Corp. has filed two separate lawsuits against Amazon, alleging that the Seattle-based company improperly derived its e-commerce functions from technologies patented by IBM as far back as the 1980's.

Being the true search marketing professional that I am I have to admit that Google is my home page.

Lexington, KY - Lexington, KY based Lexmark International finally won a major ruling in their never ending war to protect their printer cartridge business. The decision came down from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals saying that when consumers open the packaging for printer cartridges, they agree to the terms and conditions of Lexmark, namely, not to refill them.

A California jury sides with a Guatemalan developer's case and awards him a $9 million judgment.