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IPNews® – Facebook Inc., Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Walt Disney Co. are the targets of new patent infringement lawsuits the Regents of the University of California filed on Wednesday over interactive hypermedia technology.

All three companies are allegedly using patented university technology for displaying interactive information through web pages or software, the university claims in

books-stack.jpgSan Diego – Published authors from the United States, Britain, Australia, and Canada are suing five American universities for allegedly “engaging in one of the largest copyright infringements in history.”  The writers claim that the universities planned to digitize out of print books and provide them online to students.

The Authors Guild and the Australian