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(AP) -- A Chinese novelist's lawsuit against Google over its online library is going ahead in court after settlement talks failed. http://phys.org/news194157144.html Technology Thu, 27 May 2010 05:32:33 EST news194157144 (PhysOrg.com) -- The internet's most successful video-sharing website, YouTube, which celebrates its fifth birthday this month, faces a far less vibrant future if copyright squabbles put an end to creative re-uses of media content, says a Queensland University of Technology (QUT) researcher. http://phys.org/news193982480.html Technology Tue, 25 May 2010 05:02:01 EST news193982480 (AP) -- A federal appeals court Friday granted Dish Network Corp. a full-court review of a ruling that threatened to force the satellite TV company to disable millions of its customers' digital video recorders because of a patent dispute with TiVo Inc. http://phys.org/news193060281.html Technology Fri, 14 May 2010 13:10:03 EST news193060281 China said Monday that software piracy had dropped off slightly last year, but admitted the thriving market was still valued at nearly 19 billion dollars. http://phys.org/news192730177.html Technology Mon, 10 May 2010 17:40:04 EST news192730177 A Taiwanese company said Friday it hoped for a positive outcome after US trade authorities agreed to investigate a patent infringement claim it filed against Apple over its touchscreen gadgets. http://phys.org/news191827032.html Technology Fri, 30 Apr 2010 06:50:01 EST news191827032 (AP) -- Adolf Hitler, for years a vessel of frustration in a popular Internet meme, has been quieted. http://phys.org/news191100072.html Technology Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:21:28 EST news191100072 A Canadian company said Thursday that it has filed suit against Acer, Apple, Lenovo, LG Electronics, Sony, Toshiba and 14 other top technology firms, accusing them of patent infringement. http://phys.org/news189964877.html Technology Thu, 08 Apr 2010 17:01:36 EST news189964877 (AP) -- Groups representing photographers and artists on Wednesday accused Internet search leader Google of copyright infringement in a lawsuit that mirrors complaints book publishers and authors have made for years about the company's attempt to create the world's largest digital library. http://phys.org/news189946625.html Technology Thu, 08 Apr 2010 12:30:01 EST news189946625 US photographers and illustrators sued Google for copyright infringement on Wednesday demanding compensation for images that appear in books being digitally scanned by the Internet giant. http://phys.org/news189865578.html Technology Wed, 07 Apr 2010 13:40:01 EST news189865578 (AP) -- EBay Inc. might be violating false-advertising laws if it does not warn consumers that some of the Tiffany products offered by sellers on its Web site are not authentic, a federal appeals court said Thursday. http://phys.org/news189345120.html Technology Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:20:01 EST news189345120 Google has been busy. The Internet giant has been copying and storing millions of the world's out-of-print and out-of-copyright books in a vast online archive. It could all be just a mouse click away from your computer screen if the effort, known as the Google Books Library Project, survives a legal challenge. http://phys.org/news188211256.html Technology Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:20:01 EST news188211256 (AP) -- Viacom Inc. and Google Inc.'s YouTube site began airing each other's dirty laundry Thursday, providing a tantalizing peek at the wheeling and dealing that triggered a bitter battle over the copyright laws governing the Internet. http://phys.org/news188142141.html Technology Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:16:38 EST news188142141 Google has been denied a trademark application for its Nexus One smartphone after the US Patent and Trademark Office said the name had been taken by a related product, a report said. http://phys.org/news188118009.html Technology Thu, 18 Mar 2010 08:10:02 EST news188118009 Internet crime in Japan jumped to a new record last year, led by ID theft and database attacks, child pornography posts and copyright violations, the national police agency said Thursday. http://phys.org/news186931900.html Technology Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:32:13 EST news186931900 Google on Wednesday threw its backing behind HTC, maker of the Internet giant's Nexus One smartphone, after Apple accused the Taiwan company of infringing on iPhone patents. http://phys.org/news186859444.html Technology Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:24:15 EST news186859444 Hollywood film studios Thursday lodged an appeal against a landmark legal judgment which found an Australian Internet provider was not responsible for illegal movie downloads by its customers. http://phys.org/news186299965.html Technology Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:59:46 EST news186299965 Google's digital book project finally gets its day in court on Thursday as the Internet giant asks a US judge to approve its ambitious plan to scan millions of books and sell them online. http://phys.org/news185608655.html Technology Wed, 17 Feb 2010 06:10:01 EST news185608655 Hollywood film studios on Thursday lost a landmark court bid to hold an Australian Internet provider responsible for illegal movie downloads by its customers, in a serious blow to their fight against piracy. http://phys.org/news184483506.html Technology Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:25:39 EST news184483506 Critics of the revised legal settlement with US authors and publishers that would allow Google to scan and sell millions of books online filed a flurry of last-minute objections on Thursday. http://phys.org/news183925856.html Technology Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:36:42 EST news183925856 US mobile phone maker Motorola filed a complaint Friday with the US government alleging patent infringement and unfair trade practices against the Canadian maker of the BlackBerry device. http://phys.org/news183401152.html Technology Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:00:01 EST news183401152 (AP) -- Eastman Kodak Co. said Monday it will draw royalties from South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. under a licensing pact that gives the companies access to each other's digital-imaging patents. http://phys.org/news182458764.html Technology Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:10:01 EST news182458764 (AP) -- A college student found guilty of copyright infringement has to destroy files he illegally downloaded years ago. http://phys.org/news179429447.html Technology Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:31:12 EST news179429447 (AP) -- A lawsuit in Wisconsin is bringing a fresh challenge to the practice of paying for keywords on Google and other search engines to boost one company's link over a rival's. http://phys.org/news177954916.html Technology Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:56:11 EST news177954916 (AP) -- A Chinese group is accusing search engine powerhouse Google of illegally copying Chinese-language works for its digital library, adding to disquiet about a project to scan millions of books. http://phys.org/news175339648.html Technology Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:50:01 EST news175339648 (PhysOrg.com) -- The struggle of American courts to control the explosion of intellectual property rights violations on some of the most traveled highways of cyberspace poses a legal challenge to the judicial system with implications that could threaten the survival of Web sites clicked on by the average Internet user every day, a University at Buffalo Law School expert on online intellectual property issues said today. http://phys.org/news175278816.html Technology Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:34:10 EST news175278816 (AP) -- A federal judge in Rhode Island threw out a $388 million patent infringement jury verdict against Microsoft Corp., the latest move in a six-year legal skirmish. http://phys.org/news173552666.html Technology Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:30:01 EST news173552666 (AP) -- A Vermont man pleaded guilty Friday to charges he had child pornography on his laptop computer when he entered the United States from Quebec nearly three years ago. http://phys.org/news173123302.html Technology Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:48:50 EST news173123302 (AP) -- Decades of Life magazine have been scanned and posted online, giving the public the first comprehensive electronic access to the iconic publication's archives. http://phys.org/news172943782.html Technology Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:10:02 EST news172943782 The founders of Skype fired another salvo Friday against online auction giant eBay's plans to sell the Web communications service. http://phys.org/news172505854.html Technology Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:18:23 EST news172505854 US computer chip company Broadcom filed a patent infringement suit on Monday against Emulex, two months after dropping a hostile takeover offer for its rival. http://phys.org/news172177039.html Technology Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:20:01 EST news172177039