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Music Industry Looking for Lyrics Payoff
Verizon To Charge Content Providers $.03 Per SMS
RIAA Seeks Royalties From Radio
Authors Guild President Wants To End Royalty-Free TTS On Kindle
Teen Sues MySpace Over Sexual Assault
MPAA Shuts Down Town's Municipal WiFi Over 1 Download
Verizon Droid Tethering Comes At a Hefty Price
Publishers Want a Slice of Used Game Market
James Murdoch Criticizes BBC For Providing "Free News"
J. K. Rowling Wins $6,750 In Infringement Case
Verizon Doubles Early Termination Fee and More
RIAA Claims Ownership of All Artist Royalties For Internet Radio
Amazon Insists Publishers Use Their On-Demand Printer
HD Video Could 'Choke the Internet'?
Amazon Fights Back Against NY Online Sales Tax
FCC May Pry Open the Cable Set-Top Box
EU Commissioner Proposes 95 year Copyright
Imperial Storm Troopers Skirmish in Latest IP Battle
Shell Ditches Wind, Solar, and Hydro
First Nations Want Cellphone Revenue
Apple Shifts iTunes Pricing; $0.69 Tracks MIA
Copyright Axe To Fall On YouTube?
OLPC CTO Quits to Commercialize OLPC Technology
Rowling Sues Harry Potter Lexicon
Ballmer Threatens To Pull Out of the US
RIAA Says "Don't Expect DRMed Music To Work Forever"
LoTR Lawsuit Threatens Hobbit Production
Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition Announced
Senator Questions Rise In US Texting Prices
IBM, Intel Execs Arrested Over Insider Trading
Music Industry Conflicted On Guitar Hero, Rock Band
Facebook Finds Grass Greener In Ireland
Ticketmaster to Start Online Ticket Auction
Singer In Grocery Store Ordered To Pay Royalties
Game Devs Using One-Time Bonuses to Fight Used Game Sales
RIAA Wants $1.5 Million Per CD Copied
US Cell Phone Plans Among World's Most Expensive
RIAA Sues XM Satellite Radio
Video Game Actors Say They Don't Get Their Due
Warner Music Pulls Videos Off YouTube
Company Uses DMCA To Take Down Second-Hand Software
Cities Tampering With Traffic Lights To Generate Revenue
Bickering Blocks US Mobile Phone Payments
Telco Sues City For Plan To Roll Out Own Broadband
Universities Patenting More Student Ideas
Blu-ray Player Prices Hit 2008 Highs
Film Studios May Block DVD Rentals For One Month
Looming Royalty Decision Threatens iTunes Store, Apple Hints
Xbox 360 Update Will Lock Out Unauthorized Storage
Mississippi Bill Would Tax Software Sales
Biotech Company To Patent Pigs
Experimental Fees Settle Royalty War For Internet Radio
Author's Guild Says Kindle's Text-To-Speech Software Illegal
Studios Sue Oz ISP Over Allowing Piracy
EU Considers Taxing SMS Messages, Email
ASCAP Says Apple Should Pay For 30-sec. Song Samples
ABC Wants DVR Fast Forwarding Disabled
MPAA Asks Again For Control Of TV Analog Ports
Apple Charges For 802.11n, Blames Accounting Law
AT&T Suggests To 300K Employees To Lobby the FCC
Behind the 4GB Memory Limit In 32-Bit Windows
Did NBC Alter the Olympics' Opening Ceremony?
FCC Inquires About Controversial Verizon Fees
IP Enforcement Treaty Still Being Kept Secret
ISO Rejects OOXML Protest Appeals
Intel and AMD Settle Antitrust, Patent Lawsuits
Is Intel Killing 12-Inch Displays On Netbooks?
Merck Created Phony Peer-Review Medical Journal
Physicist Admits Sending Space-Related Military Secrets To China
RIAA Filed 62 New Cases In April Alone
WCG Tournament Director Admits Drugs In E-Sports
Tolkien Trust Okays Hobbit Movie
Google Violates Miro's Copyright?
Facebook Sues German Company, Claims Ripoff
Hasbro Sues Makers of Scrabble-Like Scrabulous
Lessons From the HD Format War
Taser International Sues Second Life Creator Over Virtual Replicas
Why Won't Apple Sell Your iTunes LPs?
EMI — Ditching DRM is Going To Cost You
Software Price Gap Between the US and Europe
Viral Music Videos A Problem For RIAA
Non-Profit Org Claims Rights In Library Catalog Data
RIAA and Net Radio Broadcasters Reach Agreement
Richest 2% Own Half the World's Wealth
Some Bands Still Refuse Music Downloads
New York MTA Asserts Copyright Over Schedule
The D&D Designers Answer Your Questions
New ICANN TLDs May Cause Internet Land Rush
New Bill Would Repeal NIH Open Access Policy
FCC Approves New Internet Phone Taxes
iPod Fee Proposed For Canada
Virgin Media CEO Says Net Neutrality Is Already Gone
SMS 4x More Expensive Than Data From Hubble
"Authors Guild" Skims Half of Google Book-Rights Settlement
eBay Australia Makes PayPal Mandatory
RIAA Not Sharing Settlement Money With Artists
ASCAP Wants To Be Paid When Your Phone Rings
Frustration With Oblivion Mod Costs on Xbox Live
Apple Makes $831 On Each AT&T iPhone
Colfer Asked To Write Sixth HHGTTG Book
New York to Implement an 'Amazon Tax'
ARIA Sells a Licence for DJs to Format Shift Music
How Politics Interacts With Games
Investment Companies Backing Patent Trolls
Two-Tier Internet & The End of Freedom of Speech
Time Warner Cable Won't Compete, Seeks Legislation
Used Game Market Affecting Price, Quality of New Titles
Dragon Age: Origins To Get Paid DLC Expansion — On Launch Day
Hawaii Planning State-Wide Electric Car Network
AU Mobile Operator Optus Blocking Paid Android Apps
US ISPs Using Push Polling To Stop Cheap Internet
Asimov Estate Authorizes New I, Robot Books
Murdoch Says, "We'll Charge For All Our Sites"
Viacom Sues Google Over YouTube for $1 Billion
Time-Warner Considers Per-Gigabyte Service Fee, After iTunes
Peter Jackson Unlikely To Direct a Hobbit Film
JP Morgan's Insider Trading How-To On Wikileaks
RIAA Sues Stroke Victim in Michigan
What Can I Do About Book Pirates?
The Cost of a Tiered Internet
Sony Offers Bloatware Removal Service — For a Fee [Updated]
Skype Founders File Copyright Suit Against eBay
Disney Says, You WILL Watch the Ads
Rockers Sue Sony Over Download Royalties
Halliburton Moving HQ To Dubai
RIAA Wants Songwriter Royalty Lowered
Why Intel and OLPC Parted Ways
Thou Shalt Not View The Super Bowl on a 56" Screen
Michael Crichton on Why Gene Patents Are Bad
Guitar Hero World Tour Equipment Problems, Subscription Possibilities?
Medical Papers By Ghostwriters Pushed Hormone Therapy
Vital Parts of Games As DLC?
US Lags World In Broadband Access
VeriSign Jacks Up .com, .net Prices To the Max
eBay To Disallow Checks and Money Orders In US
Indonesia Stops Sharing Avian Virus Samples
RIAA Says CDs Should Cost More
Cancer Drug May Not Get A Chance Due to Lack of Patent
Canada May Tax Legal Music Downloads
Microsoft Discloses Windows 7 Pricing
Browser Vendors Force W3C To Scrap HTML 5 Codecs
Sony Hints At Higher Priced Games
Verizon Tells Cops "Your Money Or Your Life"
Microsoft Charging Businesses $4K for DST Fix
Copyright Board Lawyer Responds On Pandora's End
Paper Companies' Windfall of Unintended Consequences
Licensing Dispute Threatens Future of Skype
Utube Sues YouTube
Tolkien Trust Sues New Line, May Kill "Hobbit"
Record Box Office Indicates MPAA 'Piracy Problem' Hot Air
A Campaign to Block Firefox Users?
Internet Tax Imminent?
Warner Music Playing Hardball With Rock Band