Amazon.com may not offer free delivery on books in France, the high court in Versailles has ruled. The action, brought in January 2004 by the French Booksellers' Union (Syndicat de la librairie française), accused Amazon...
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A woman ordered to pay $222,000 for downloading and sharing music files has decided to appeal the case. A happy Jammie Thomas said on her Myspace.com blog that the appeal was announced by her lawyer,...
Internet telephone company Vonage Holdings Corp. may be in big trouble after being ordered in federal court Tuesday to pay Sprint Nextel $69.5 million in damages for infringing on six telecommunications patents owned by Sprint...
TorrentSpy, one of the largest and most popular torrent dump sites, may soon become another piece of bait in the MPAA's ongoing efforts to track down and prosecute copyright infringers. The site has already been...
Advanced Micro Devices will be able to collect evidence about events outside the U.S. for an antitrust lawsuit against Intel. AMD alleges Intel used its dominant position in the microprocessor business to pressure system makers...
A Brussels court has ordered internet giant Google to pay 1 million euro a day if it does not remove all news articles and pictures from French and German language newspapers on its news site,...
Thanks chulomixed for this submission. The U.S. District Court in Oakland, California, has ordered Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. and its U.S. unit to pay $90.7 million in damages to Immersion Corp. for patent...
A federal judge has ordered a man known as the "Spam King" to disable so-called spyware programs that infiltrate people's computers, track their Internet use and flood them with pop-up advertising. U.S. District Judge Joseph...
A federal judge has basically told SCO to "put up or shut up" in regards to it's claim that it has suffered damages from Novell in the form of slander and hampering SCO's efforts to...
An Amsterdam court has ruled against Microsoft in its attempt to obtain an injunction against Lindows, a maker of Linux software, as the two companies' trademark dispute continues. Microsoft has alleged that...
A federal judge ordered Microsoft Corp. to search for evidence a vice president told employees in 2000 to destroy e-mails, an attorney for a company suing the software giant said Friday. Burst.com attorney Spencer Hosie...
The infringing code will probably remain behind closed doors. "The Linux and the open-source communities have been frustrated -- saying that SCO had not shown its code," said Laura DiDio, Yankee Group analyst. "But it's...
The judge presiding over The SCO Group Inc.'s $5 billion lawsuit with IBM Corp. has ordered IBM to provide SCO with the source code to its AIX and Dynix operating systems. SCO had been seeking...
A judgement against the Linux distributor could force the company to stop using its trademark and surrender its domain names, pending an appeal. (Uh-oh... -Ed) A French court has decided against Linux...
Microsoft is to cough up $1 million in legal fees to Massachusetts - the lone state pursuing an appeal against the 2002 antitrust ruling. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly has ordered Microsoft to shell out...
A federal judge has ordered Microsoft to recover any deleted e-mails that may support charges from a streaming media company that the software giant stole its video-delivery technology, according to a recent hearing transcript. U.S....
Saw this one on my subscription to LockerGnome "Bits 'n Bytes". Seems those over at Ford have been given a "safe" period to clean out their Harddrives from housing Pornographic images, funnily enough it didn't...
Just seen this over at The Nando Times The record industry must provide documented proof it owns copyrights to scores of popular songs it is seeking to protect in its lawsuit against...
Two stories relating to our old friend "Busby"... UK Telecom Watchdog OFTEL has ordered BT to slash its charges to rival telecoms companies for connecting users to the Internet. BT must use its...
Music sharing system KaZaA has been given two weeks by a Dutch court to cease infringing recording artists' copyrights. If the company fails to comply with the order, it faces a penalty...
