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Oprah Sued For Patent Infringement Over Her Book Club
Date : 06 Jan 2009
TechdirtJoe Mullin is back to let us know about the latest patent insanity, starting with a post about a whole bunch of patent infringemen read more »
As Rumored, Apple Gives Record Labels Variable iTunes Pricing In Exchange For Ditching DRM
Date : 06 Jan 2009 TechdirtAs was rumored last night by Greg Sandoval at News.com, it appears that Apple has worked out a deal with the major record labels ( read more »
Warrantless Wiretapping Lawsuit Allowed To Move Forward Despite Ridiculous Levels Of Secrecy
Date : 06 Jan 2009 TechdirtLast year, we wrote about the absolutely ridiculous limitations placed on the lawyers pushing forward on behalf of the Al-Harmain read more »
Amazon's Best Selling MP3 Album For 2008 Was Available Legally For Free
Date : 06 Jan 2009 TechdirtAs some of you may know, in a week and a half I'm giving a presentation at the music industry MidemNet conference, focusing on how read more »
Obama Appoints Former RIAA Lawyer To Associate Attorney General
Date : 06 Jan 2009 TechdirtAmidst a number of high profile appointments today was the position of associate attorney general. The high-ranking position has b read more »
Japan stocks hope for best in ill-fated "Ox" year (Reuters)
Date : 06 Jan 2009
Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - If you thought things couldn't get worse for Japanese stocks after their poorest performance ever in 2008, a tongue-in-c read more »
Retail sales seen falling despite deep discounts (Reuters)
Date : 06 Jan 2009 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Deep discounts failed to coax consumers to shop in December, but are sure to sap margins and will likely lead to a numbe read more »
Tech companies will stick to safe deals in '09 (Reuters)
Date : 06 Jan 2009 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Technology companies may have wooed rivals with alluring, pricey buyout offers in 2008, but this year, nothing says sexy read more »
No One Can Find ISPs Who Have Agreed To RIAA's 3 Strikes Plan
Date : 06 Jan 2009 TechdirtIt's been a few weeks since the WSJ announced that the RIAA was supposedly dropping its lawsuit strategy, in favor of a backroom d read more »
Logitech to slash jobs, withdraws targets (Reuters)
Date : 06 Jan 2009 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Logitech International SA , the world's largest computer mouse maker, said it plans to cut 15 percent of its salaried wo read more »
Toyota orders 11-day output halt as sales slump (Reuters)
Date : 06 Jan 2009 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) is to halt production at its Japanese plants for 11 days in February and March as a sharp sli read more »
Stock futures point to higher Wall Street open (Reuters)
Date : 06 Jan 2009 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Stock futures pointed to a firmer Wall Street start on Tuesday, with futures for the Dow Jones industrial average, the S read more »
British house prices fell by record amount in 2008 (AP)
Date : 06 Jan 2009 Yahoo! News: BusinessAP - British house prices fell by their biggest annual amount in at least 56 years during 2008 as credit seized up and incentives read more »
Musicians In New Zealand Protesting 'Guilt Upon Accusation' Plan
Date : 06 Jan 2009 TechdirtOne of the biggest problems with various "three strikes" or "graduated response" plans that involve ISPs slowing, degrading or rem read more »
Veoh Gets Another DMCA Safe Harbor Win, This Time Against Universal Music
Date : 06 Jan 2009 TechdirtYou may recall that last year, the video hosting website Veoh had a big win when a court ruled that the site was protected by DMCA read more »
Phorm, Apparently Deaf To Consumer Hatred Of Being Spied On, Plans Expansion
Date : 05 Jan 2009 TechdirtPhorm is the highly controversial behavioral advertising firm that teams up with ISPs to spy on your surfing habits and deliver ta read more »
Asia stocks up on hopes of recovery (Reuters)
Date : 05 Jan 2009 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Asian stocks edged up for a seventh day on Tuesday, boosted by hopes for a global economic recovery later in 2009, thoug read more »
Why Did We Put Ratings Agencies' Ratings Into The Law?
Date : 05 Jan 2009 TechdirtProblems and potential conflicts coming from the bond ratings agencies were well-known well before our financial crisis hit, but s read more »
Copyright Royalty Board Continues To Make Life Difficult For Webcasting
Date : 05 Jan 2009 TechdirtI have significant problems with any sort of compulsory licensing scheme, which basically gives the power to a tiny group of peopl read more »
Prosecutors seek to jail Madoff (Reuters)
Date : 05 Jan 2009 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - U.S. prosecutors asked a judge to jail accused swindler Bernard Madoff on Monday, saying he sent jewelry and other items read more »
Car sales plunge heralding bleak 2009 (Reuters)
Date : 05 Jan 2009 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - U.S. auto sales plunged by 36 percent in December led by outsized declines at Chrysler LLC, Hyundai Motor (005380.KS) an read more »
Lawmakers set new mortgage bankruptcy bill (Reuters)
Date : 05 Jan 2009 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Legislation designed to stem foreclosures by allowing bankruptcy judges to erase some mortgage debt will be introduced b read more »
China Adds Search Engines To Its Censorship-By-Guilt Plan; How Will Google Respond?
Date : 05 Jan 2009 TechdirtIt's well known that the Great Firewall censorship brigade in China employs tens of thousands of people monitoring what's said acr read more »
Fed buys MBS in latest unconventional move (Reuters)
Date : 05 Jan 2009 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - The Federal Reserve on Monday kick-started its latest unconventional program to boost the moribund economy, this time ta read more »
MP3Tunes Points Out EMI's Own Actions Contradict Its Lawsuit
Date : 05 Jan 2009 TechdirtEMI's lawsuit against Michael Robertson's MP3Tunes has never made much sense. MP3Tunes isn't distributing any MP3s. It just lets read more »