IPNews® – Craigslist Inc. is illegally protecting its monopolistic position in the online classified ad market by threatening and filing sham copyright and trademark infringement litigation, a public listing database service said Monday in response to Craigslist’s recently-filed infringement claims against it.
3Taps Inc. says Craigslist is engaging in unfair competition and violations of antitrust
IPNews® – Disney Enterprises Inc. prevailed on Thursday in a copyright infringement lawsuit in Missouri federal court accusing it of misappropriating the titles and story lines of its 2009 and 2010 “Santa Paws” movies from a 1991 illustrated Christmas story.
Disney’s movies are not substantially similar to the protected expression in the plaintiffs’ short story
IPNews® – The U.S. Copyright Office said Wednesday it plans to look into the ways that a federal resale royalty right might be able to benefit visual artists and how such a right would change the art marketplace.
The inquiry comes in response to a request by U.S. Senator Herb Kohl, D-Wisconsin and U.S. Representative
IPNews® – The Eighth Circuit on Tuesday affirmed a $222,000 copyright infringement verdict against a Minnesota woman whom the major record labels accused of sharing copyrighted songs through the peer-to-peer file-sharing service Kazaa.
The Minnesota district court had cut the jury’s damages award to $54,000 three times for three separate jury trials in the case
IPNews® – The Velvet Underground on Friday lost its copyright infringement claim against the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc. over the licensing of Warhol’s famous banana screenprint cover art for the band’s debut album, but the band’s remaining claims for trademark infringement remain intact.
A New York federal judge ruled that because
IPNews® – EMI Music added one more complaint last week to the pile of copyright infringement lawsuits record labels are pursuing against online music streaming service Grooveshark.
The service continued to provide EMI’s music to users despite failing to make licensing payments or provide sales records, EMI’s complaint in New York federal court against Grooveshark
IPNews® – Angelina Jolie came out swinging on Tuesday in response to an author’s copyright infringement claims related to the movie In The Land Of Blood And Honey she directed about the Bosnian civil war.
Author James J. Braddock’s 2007 book The Soul Shattering has nothing to do with the film, Jolie said in an
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IPNews® – Oracle Corp. must pay Google Inc. $1 million to compensate for costs incurred in Oracle’s failed patent and copyright infringement suit over the Java programming language, a California federal judge ruled Tuesday.
Google had asked for $4 million in costs, but Judge William Alsup shot down $3 million in e-discovery cost requests. Oracle
IPNews® – Four textbook publishers settled claims Tuesday against five companies they accused of selling and distributing counterfeit copies of their copyrighted and trademarked work.
The settlements include a total of $2.6 million in payments to publishers Cengage Learning Inc., John Wiley and Sons Inc., Pearson Education Inc. and McGraw-Hill Education, as well as agreements