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Google Plans to Snatch 2.25 Per Cent of Every iPhone Sale [Google]





There have been plenty of legal wranglings between Motorola and Apple, and with Google buying Motorola that doesn't show signs of stopping. Now, Google plans to grab 2.25 per cent of every iPhone sale beca...
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Stephen Fry on a Generation of Technophobic Judges [Video]





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How a Single Student Is Transforming Facebook's Privacy Policy in Europe [Facebook]





To most people that know him, Max Schrems is a typical law student from Austria. To Facebook, he is a massive pain in the ass. Outsmarting their attorneys, bombarding them with legal complaints and forming...
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From the Life-Is-Unfair Files: You're Welcome, Winklevii. Love, Zuck.

Persistence — even if it is the whiny, likely undeserved, lunkheaded legal version of it — certainly pays off.
But you have to marvel at the bizarre karma going on, given that my favorite matching pair of digital ottomans, Cameron and Tyler W...
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Motorola Succeeds In Blocking iCloud, iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 in Germany [Apple]





It's been a successful morning for Motorola in Germany. So far they've managed to secure a permanent injunction against Apple's iCloud, as well as seeing the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 and first-gen 3G iPad remo...
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French Court Fines Google For Offering Its Maps For Free [Google]





A French court has ruled that Google is guilty of abusing the dominance of Google Maps, and so has ordered it to pay a fine and damages to a French mapping company. More »



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The EFF sets up a site to help Megaupload users get their files back
It’s been two weeks since the Department of Justice arrested seven employees of Megaupload and shut it down. After all of the back and forth discussion about how this landmark case affects our online rights, the actual users of the site have been f...
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The Newest Internet Law to Worry About [Internet]





Following in the proud, wide, footsteps of SOPA and PIPA, the Senate is set to vote on another internet regulation bill this week—and the web is worrying already. Justified? Maybe. Unfortunately, the...
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It's Time for Apple to Stop Patent Trolling [Apple]





Intellectual property is important. There's no denying that. But there's a line between protecting yourself and just trying to kill everybody around you. It's one Apple has already crossed, and it's not do...
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Grooveshark Is Being Sued By All Four Major Music Labels [Music]





That questionably legal music service Grooveshark is in hot water again. EMI, the one big music label it has a licensing deal with, is suing its ass. More »






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Advice On Car Insurance Australia For You
On the roads of Australia, there are thousands of cars. No matter how carefully driven, there is always a possibility that danger could strike, as it may be outside your control. To cover such possibilities, policies from car insurance Australia could pro...
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Yahoo Okays Initial Term Sheet to Sell Stakes Back to Asian Partners -- While Also Hoping to Keep PE Firms in Fray

Yahoo shareholders felt a little giddier earlier this week, when it seemed as if the company had finally decided to make a deal with its Asian partners.
But the happiest crew might end up being the Silicon Valley Internet giant’s outside counsel, S...
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MUSIC PIRACY


MUSIC PIRACY
in 1923, file sharing was legal
Submitted by: xyzpdq1
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It’s a Legit Question
Slightly poor taste to put it on a licence plate, but better to ask than assume.
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Airbnb Hires Former Yahoo Legal Eagle Belinda Johnson as General Counsel

Airbnb, the San Francisco online vacation rentals start-up, said it has hired a key former Yahoo lawyer, Belinda Johnson, as its new general counsel.
The legal issues at Airbnb are both interesting and challenging, all around the new arena of global shar...
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Motorola Wins Europe-Wide Sales Ban Against iOS Devices [Apple]





Apple just found itself on the receiving-end of some legal hurt. Motorola has successfully sued Apple in Germany, paving the way for a Europe-wise sales ban on basically all iOS devices. Better get those A...
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The Yahoo Lawsuits Begin: Put the Non-Blabby Deals in Your PIPE and Smoke It

What took so long?
Actually, it did not take any time at all for someone to start legal proceedings against the current effort by Yahoo to sell itself.
In this case, no surprise, it is aimed directly at the how of doing it.
In an unusual injunction reque...
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Grooveshark Will Soon Be Destroyed [Music]





Remember Grooveshark, the magical website that let you stream any song you wanted, in high quality, for free? Did you ever wonder how such a thing managed to avoid legal annihilation? Trick question! It ha...
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Feds Shut Down Mortgage Scammers on Bing/Yahoo
The online advertising mortgage scam investigation announced last week by the Treasury Department involves Bing and Yahoo, as well as Google. the agency has revealed. The Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTA...
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Semi-Legal Bluetooth Call Recorder: Did The Wire Teach Us Nothing? [Bluetooth]





Your smartphone can do many things, but because of legal restrictions, it can't easily be used to record a conversation. This Bluetooth handset happily will, though, documenting over 340 hours of calls, wh...
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To combat SOPA, Tumblr generates 87,834 phone calls to U.S. Representatives
To combat the ill-conceived “Stop Online Piracy Act”, or commonly referred to as “SOPA” on the Internet, Tumblr asked its users to make phone calls to their U.S. Representatives to make their feelings known.
Tumblr users complied, ...
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Throw out your pen, DocuSign Ink for iOS lets you sign docs
Signing documents is something that I really don’t enjoy doing, especially when there’s twenty pages that I have to initial first. In a digital age, we can sometimes go weeks without picking up a pen.
DocuSign Ink for iOS is an app that makes...
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Samsung's Won-Pyo Hong on the Mobile Phone Wars: The Full AsiaD Interview (Video)

We are now posting the full videos from the recent AsiaD conference, which took place in Hong Kong in October.
Over the next week or so, we’re going to follow the schedule of the actual event. Up now: Samsung mobile head Won-Pyo Hong.
Samsung is th...
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Judge Orders Divorcing Couple to Share Facebook Passwords [WTFriday]






I hate you; you broke my heart; I never want to see you again. Oh, and can you check my Facebook while I'm at yoga to see if my sister got back to me? That's what a Connecticut couple's doing after a judg...
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N.J. Facebook ID Theft Case Could Impact Other States
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, especially when the woman allegedly decides to create a fake Facebook profile to slander her ex-boyfriend.
Dana Thornton, 41, of Bellville, N.J., was indicted on one count of fourth-degree identity theft in Morris C...
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AOL's Biz Dev SVP and Strategy Chief Heads to Spotify

Jared Grusd, AOL’s SVP of business development and chief of strategy, is leaving the New York Internet giant to work at Spotify, according to sources close to the situation.
At AOL, according to his bio, Grusd “oversees the organization resp...
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Samsung's Galaxy Tablets Infringe On Apple's Patents Says US Judge [Samsung]






A US judge agreed with Apple's claim that Samsung's Galaxy tablets infringe on their iPad-related patents. This opinion was issued as part of an injunction request filed by Apple. More »
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The StingRay Is The Virtually Unknown Device the Government Uses to Track You Through Your Phone [Privacy]


There's a battle going on in the U.S. judicial system over how much freedom the government should have in tracking us. At the center of this debate lies a device called the StingRay. More »






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AWOL Tech Executive Resurfaces After 20+ Years On the Lam [Crime]






After $100 million in back taxes to Ireland, Singapore and elsewhere, and 20 years after he vanished off the face of the Earth, tech baron William H. Millard has surfaced in a rather unsurprising locale: ...
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Apple Wins Round Two Against Galaxy Tab in German Courts [Apple]






Rule against the Galaxy Tab for patent infringement once, shame on you. Rule against the Galaxy Tab for patent infringement twice, well, that's when maybe Samsung's screwed for real. In Germany, at least....
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HTC Arms Itself With Patents From Google, Strikes Back At Apple [Android]






HTC isn't backing down in its legal battle with Apple. The Taiwanese handset maker obtained nine new patents from Google last week and is using them in a new offensive against Apple. More »...
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Apple Claims Android Started With Them [Patents]






In the early 1990s, Android head honcho Andy Rubin worked as a low-level Apple engineer. And that, according Apple's latest ITC filing, is grounds enough for them to potentially block Android in the US. ...
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AT&T Is Suing the People Who Want to Stop the T-Mo Purchase [At&t]






For months, Bursor & Fisher has represented the masses—such as they are—so opposed to the proposed AT&T-mo power coupling that they've resorted to legal means to stop it. Last week, AT&T final...
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The Patent Cold Wars, Visualized [Patents]






It's one thing to say that everybody is suing everybody over mobile patents. It's another entirely when you actually see the battle lines all drawn out for you, as Thomson Reuters has so painstakingly don...
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The US Patent System Is Killing Innovation [Patents]






HTC sued Apple over mobile patents today. Again. Pretty soon Apple will likely sue them back. Again. Shrug. Throw it on the pile. And while the patent Cold War continues to heat up, weep for the real casu...
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Apple Presents Misleading Evidence in German Case Against Samsung [Apple]






Apple filed an infringement complaint against Samsung and won an injunction that halted European sales of the Galaxy Tab 10.1. Unfortunately for Apple, the images of the Samsung Galaxy Tab it submitted to...
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Apple Is Also Suing Motorola Over the Xoom Tablet Design [Patents]






The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 isn't the only tablet on Apple's lawsuit radar. Foss Patents unearthed a paragraph from the Samsung complaint which mentions that Apple also filed a complaint against Motorola,...
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Facebook Terms of Service Deciphered For Dudes [Facebook]






Facebook's constantly-evolving Terms of Service are too long and complex for most people to be bothered to read. So the dudes at Slacktory re-wrote the entire thing in bro-speak, yo. You can, like, unders...
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Dear Sixth Circuit Court, Spamming and Hacking Aren't the Same Thing [Crime]






The U.S. Sixth Circuit Appeals recently ruled in favor of a company who claims their computer system was sabotaged by a labor union that told its members emails to their employer about a dispute. But the ...
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Microsoft PR Ninja Strikes Back at Google Patent Whine With Email Jujitsu

After Google’s legal head David Drummond let forth with a blog post about how Microsoft and Apple had formed an evil patent cabal against the search giant, the software giant’s PR head Frank Shaw was not having any of it.
In his post, Drummon...
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Anonymous Mounts Legal Protest Against PayPal [Hackers]






Anonymous has PayPal in its crosshairs but this time it's using a legal strategy to battle the online payment processor. Following PayPal's recent comments about the Antisec movement, the hackers are aski...
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Acting Like Animals: Run Lemur Run!


Dear Tom Tykwer,
I’d like to let you know that I’m suing you for everything you have, on account of you shamelessly stealing the idea for your opus “Run Lola Run” from the story that is my life. After watching the film, I’m...
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Murdoch & Son Visit Parliament, Return With a Big Helping Of Humble (and Shaving Cream) Pie

This morning, News Corp. CEO and majordomo Rupert Murdoch, his son James (who is also a top company exec) — as well as former employee and full-time lightning rod Rebekah Brooks — march on down to the British Parliament to answer questions fr...
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Those Smiling Monkey Pictures Are Likely Public Domain [Photography]






We can all breathe a sigh of relief as those macaque monkey pictures may belong in the public domain. Neither the photographer nor the news agency that published the images can claim a copyright because t...
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If a Monkey Steals Your Camera, Who Owns the Photos? [Legal]






You can't forget those adorable self-portraits taken by a group of vain monkeys on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The shots are amazing, so amazing that a controversy is brewing over their copyright. ...
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States Are Lining Up to Investigate the AT&T-Mobile Deal [Blip]


While no local governments have actually moved to prevent AT&T's acquisition of T-Mobile USA, a whole bunch have started firing off subpoenas at both Ma Bell and Sprint, the deal's most vocal opponent. The nine states are requesting data re...
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Should I Be Worried About Dropbox's Changing Terms of Service? [Ask Lifehacker]






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People Staring at Computers Project Raided By The Secret Service [Legal]






Busted! Kyle McDonald, the man behind the People Staring at Computers project, was raided by the Secret Service on Thursday. More »






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Samsung "Streamlines" Lawsuit Against Apple, But Pledges to Fight On [Blip]


The ongoing patent lawsuit shenanigans between Apple and Samsung got a tad bit simpler this week after Samsung withdrew its coutersuit against Apple over some patents or something. The whole thing is—oh hey look new iPhones in October...
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Samsung Wants to Block all iPods, iPhones, and iPads from the US [Blip]


Last we heard, Apple brought the you-copied-our-shit fight to Samsung's home turf. Now Samsung's firing back, asking the International Trade Commission to ban US imports of every iPod, iPhone and iPad. More »






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