David Kravets / Wired Top Stories - 4 days, 3 hours, 49 minutes ago
ISP Defeats Hollywood Copyright Claims - A leading Australian ISP prevails in a Hollywood lawsuit accusing iiNet of being liable for the infringing activity of its customers.
BBC News, BetaNews

Doug Caverly / WebProNews - 5 days, 8 hours, 25 minutes ago
Yahoo Loses Patent Infringement Case, $12.4 Million - IMVironments - the little background themes for Yahoo Messenger - have gotten Yahoo in a lot of trouble.  The company's lost a patent infringement case that concerns them, and as a result, is supposed to pay a subsidiary of Acacia...
TechCrunch, Seattle Times

By DEALBOOK / New York Times: DealBook - 3 days, 11 hours, 37 minutes ago
S.E.C. Drops Civil Action Against Broadcom Execs - The Securities and Exchange Commission says it will not pursue a civil action for stock option backdating filed against four of Broadcom's former executives.

Mike Masnick / Techdirt - 4 days, 12 hours, 27 minutes ago
Awkward Stock Photo Blog Hit With DMCA Claim - Brad Hubbard writes "One of my favorite sites, AwkwardStockPhotos.com received a legal nastygram claiming that by showing the stock photos from iStockPhoto.com (and linking back, with watermark in place), they were violating copyright.
Ars Technica

Anthony Ha / VentureBeat - 6 days 12 minutes ago
Adobe CTO defends Flash - The lack of support for Flash-format media on Apple’s iPad has caused a fresh round of debate about the technology’s value, including a bunch of posts from Flash owner Adobe.
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs

Mike Masnick / Techdirt - 4 days, 10 hours, 32 minutes ago
TV Station Issuing DMCA Takedowns To Try To Hide Weatherman Making A Bad Joke - It's been well documented how many people/organizations abuse the DMCA takedown process to try (and usually fail) to make content they don't like disappear, even if there's a legitimate reason for it being up.

ReadWriteWeb - 5 days, 20 hours, 23 minutes ago
Yahoo! Scores Patent on Geo-Located, Social, Augmented Reality - You're walking down the street. Your phone buzzes, a map or a screen overlay pops up and you're shown a note left in that location by one of your friends - along with an ad for your favorite pizza.

Jennifer Van Grove / Mashable! - 6 days, 5 hours, 46 minutes ago
Prop 8 Trial Re-enactments Circumvent Supreme Court’s YouTube Ban - Enterprising filmmakers have found a way to circumvent a United States Supreme Court ruling blocking video coverage of Proposition 8 on YouTube.The San Francisco Chronicle reports that John Ireland and John Ainsworth are using court...

Samuel Axon / Mashable! - 6 days, 6 hours, 17 minutes ago
YouTube Makes $10,709.16 From Movie Rental Trial Run - Last month YouTube made its first foray into movie rentals — five films from the Sundance Film Festival — and according to The New York Times, the total revenue from those five films amounted to only $10,709.16.The films were available...