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Breaking Digital Media Law NewsWarner’s $33M Bid for Midway Games Close To Being ApprovedAuthored by Jay Baage on July 2, 2009 - 7:41am.
 Chicago – Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX) $33 million bid to buy "substantially all" the assets of Midway Games (NYSE: MWY) looks like its close to being approved. A Delaware bankruptcy judge said Wednesday that the objections to the Warner Bros. deal were resolved, clearing the way for the company to change owners, according to Chicago Tribune.
MCS Music Files Copyright Suit Against Yahoo, Microsoft, RealAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on July 1, 2009 - 7:24am.
 Nashville, Tenn. - MCS Music America,
a company that provides administration and manages copyrights for some 45,000
music tracks, has filed copyright infringement claims against Yahoo (NASD: YHOO), Microsoft (NASD: MSFT)
and RealNetworks (NASD: RNWK), alleging the companies did not obtain all the proper
permissions for using its tracks on their service, Techdirt reported. On its
website, MCS Music America
says it administers copyrights for artists including Elvis Presley, Tina
Turner, Mariah Carey, Metallica and Moby, among others.
RIAA Wins Copyright Judgment Against Usenet.comAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on July 1, 2009 - 6:00am.
 Los Angeles
- The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) announced on Wednesday
that a federal court has ruled in its favor in a copyright infringement lawsuit
it filed against Usenet.com. According to CNET's coverage, U.S. District Judge
Harold Baer of the Southern District of New York found Usenet.com -- which
offers access to the twenty-year-old Usenet network -- guilty of direct,
contributory and vicarious copyright infringement.
Insider Trading Probe Launched on Pirate Bay BuyerAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on July 1, 2009 - 8:24am.
Stockholm, Sweden - An investigation has been launched into suspected insider trading
of shares in Sweden-based Global Gaming Factory, following irregular volume was
seen a week before the company acquired file-sharing hub The Pirate Bay for
$7.8 million, TorrentFreak reported.
tags: Deals | Law | Music | Movies | Acquisitions | Copyright | The Pirate Bay | Global Gaming Factory |
Former NCAA Players Sue EA Over Likenesses in Football GamesAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on July 1, 2009 - 8:01am.
Los Angeles
- A number of former college football players have filed suit against
Electronic Arts (NASD: ERTS), alleging the company included their likenesses in its
"NCAA Football" video games without permission, GamePolitics
reported.
White House Launches New Site to Track Federal IT SpendingAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on June 30, 2009 - 8:32am.
Washington
- The White House on Tuesday launched USASpending.gov, a new web site designed
to inform visitors about how the federal government is spending money on
information technology projects. Speaking at a forum in New York Tuesday morning, Vivek Kundra, the
federal chief information officer, said that although information on the site
already was publicly available, the site's new "dashboard" format is
designed to make it much easier to understand. The site, available at the link
below, features information on nearly 7,000 federal IT investments.
Will Pirate Bay Be Successful As A Legit Music Downloading Service?Authored by Jay Baage on June 30, 2009 - 6:59am.
China Bans Trading in Virtual Currency, 'Gold Farming'Authored by Mark Hefflinger on June 30, 2009 - 6:47am.
Shanghai,
China - The
Chinese government has announced new limits on the use of virtual currency, in
a move intended in part to curtail the practice of "gold farming,"
where people in poorer countries play online games and collect virtual gold
which is then sold to rich players in other countries.
Report: Jammie Thomas-Rasset Rejects RIAA Settlement OfferAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on June 30, 2009 - 6:10am.
Los Angeles
- Jammie Thomas-Rasset, the woman recently found guilty of copyright
infringement on a file-sharing network and ordered to pay $1.9 million in damages,
has rejected a settlement offer from the record labels, CNET News.com reported.
RIAA P2P Case Tally in Court Brief Differs With EstimatesAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on June 29, 2009 - 10:49am.
Boston
- The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) said in court documents
filed this month that it had settled with 4,000 of the 18,000 people it
contacted about their alleged infringements on file-sharing networks, although
other estimates peg the total number of proceedings at nearly double that
figure, Digital Music News reported.
Supreme Court Declines Case; Cablevision DVR Remains LegalAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on June 29, 2009 - 6:37am.
 Washington
- The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal challenging the legality of
Cablevision's (NYSE: CVC) network-based digital video recorder service, which the
television networks and movie studios had charged amounted to copyright infringement.
Unlike a TiVo, which stores recorded programs locally on a hard drive in the
consumer's home, Cablevision's "remote storage" digital video
recorder stores recorded programs on the company's own servers, and streams
them on demand to customers.
Sirius XM Passing Music Royalty Rate Hike on to SubscribersAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on June 26, 2009 - 10:32am.
New York - Sirius XM (NASD: SIRI) plans
to pass on higher royalty rates it has to pay to broadcast music to its
subscribers in the U.S.,
in the form of a $1.98 per month fee increase for primary subscriptions and
$0.97 per month fee for multi-receiver subscriptions, SiriusXMNews reported.
Apple Sued Over iTunes Gift Cards, Price Hike to $1.29 SongsAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on June 26, 2009 - 8:39am.
San Francisco - Apple (NASD: AAPL) has been sued for
breach of contract and consumer fraud by two Illinois residents, who claim the company
misled them by marketing its gift cards for the iTunes Store as redeemable for
99-cent songs, when in fact some songs now cost $1.29 each, CNET News.com
reported.
Senate Confirms Julius Genachowski as New FCC ChairmanAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on June 26, 2009 - 8:05am.
 Washington
- Julius Genachowski late Thursday was unanimously confirmed by the Senate as
the new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), three months
after his nomination by President Obama. Genachowski, a former classmate of
Obama's at Harvard
Law School,
served as a top technology advisor during the campaign.
tags: Law | Policy | FCC | Barack Obama | Julius Genachowski | Mignon Clyburn | Robert McDowell | Meredith Attwell Baker |
Swedish Court Rejects Bias Charges Against Pirate Bay JudgeAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on June 25, 2009 - 7:57am.
 Stockholm,
Sweden - A
Swedish appellate court has rejected charges from the administrators of
file-sharing hub The Pirate Bay that the judge who found them guilty of copyright
infringement was biased because of his ties to several pro-copyright groups,
Ars Technica reported. Judge Tomas Norström is a member of the Swedish
Copyright Association, and sits on the board of the Swedish Association for the
Protection of Industrial Property, which the Pirate Bay
administrators charged would bias him in the case against them.
Former Discovery Holdings Head to Pay $1.4M in FTC SettlementAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on June 24, 2009 - 7:59am.
Silver Spring, Md. - John Malone, the former chairman and
CEO of Discovery Communications parent Discovery Holding, will pay $1.4 million
as part of a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over
allegations that he purchased company shares last year before the expiration of
a waiting period required by law.
France's Sarkozy Reaffirms Commitment to 'Three-Strikes' PolicyAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on June 23, 2009 - 10:51am.
Paris - During the first presidential address to France's Parliament
in 150 years, Nicolas Sarkozy expressed frustration at the country's highest
court's decision to disallow the disconnection of repeat file-swappers'
accounts, and said he intends to "go all the way" in regard to a
"three-strikes" policy, TorrentFreak reported.
"Mafia Wars" Game Maker Zynga Sues "Mobsters" Maker PlaydomAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on June 23, 2009 - 8:08am.
San Francisco
- Zynga, a developer of online games for social media, has filed suit against
rival Playdom over ads the company placed for its "Mobsters" game on
Facebook, arguing that they are misleading consumers interested in its own "Mafia
Wars" title, PaidContent reported.
German Court Orders RapidShare to Proactively Filter SongsAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on June 23, 2009 - 6:52am.
Berlin
- A German court has sided with copyright society GEMA against free
file-hosting service Rapidshare, which must now monitor its site to ensure that
some 5,000 songs are not posted for distribution on its servers, Billboard
reported.
Pirate Party Gets Seat in Germany's ParliamentAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on June 22, 2009 - 12:30pm.
Los Angeles - Following the
election of a member of Sweden's
Pirate Party to the European Parliament, Germany's PiratenPartei has gained
its own seat in the German Federal Parliament, TorrentFreak reported. Citing
"concerns about Internet censorship," Jorg Tauss -- who has been a
member of Germany's
parliament since 1994 -- left the Social Democrats Party to join the German
Pirate Party.
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