Reselling copies of MP3s you legally purchased violates copyright, according to a ruling made over the weekend by a New York district court judge. The ruling is a victory for Capitol Records, a subsidiary of Vivendi, and marks a devas…
A federal appeals court has decided that Isohunt, a BitTorrent index accused by a Hollywood film studio of encouraging users to share pirated moves and TV shows, is liable for the copyright infringement committed by users and isn’t en…
The Central Intelligence Agency must publicly declare whether or not it has documents on drone strikes carried out by the US government, and if so, must explain why it can keep those documents hidden from the public, according to a ne…
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has determined that “reasonable suspicion” can be required to search electronic devices at the border, potentially raising the bar for police there. For the past several years, activists have attempt…
As we always advise when it comes to early court rulings in these heated patent battles, don’t underestimate the due process of law. That rang true in the biggest patent battle in the mobile sector, the one currently raging between Samsung and Apple. The original $1.05 billion judgment Judge Lucy Koh imposed on Samsung was [...]
Judge Lucy Koh has just delivered a serious blow to Cupertino in the Apple v. Samsung legal saga, cutting the damages awarded to the company down to $598,908,892 — and ordering a new trial to determine the remaining bala…
While the Samsung Galaxy Nexus is no longer the new kid on the block — the Nexus 4 has supplanted it despite troubles with availability — Apple would still like to see it off the market. It looks like the Cupertino manufacturer won’t get the satisfaction of seeing that happen, though, as a US appeals [...]
Last year a judge granted an injunction on Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus as part of a new round of legal battles between Apple and Samsung — a sales ban that was then reversed by an appeals court last October. Apple had asked t…
Whoa, this bombshell of news is sure to wake a few of you night-shifters up. The infamous “Steve Jobs patent,” aka the one where Apple has the right to call multi-touch technology theirs, looks like it could be invalidated by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Florian Mueller of FoSS Patents reports today. All [...]
If you found yourself longing for the minor tweaks Samsung made to the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Germany earlier this year, you may be in luck: Apple’s filed for a preliminary injunction against the slate stateside. It isn’t the first one, either, Cupertino…
