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- Real appeals injunction against RealDVD; says judge erred
- Real has filed an appeal in its legal battle with the Motion Picture Association of America, arguing that a judge erred when she agreed to a preliminary injunction to halt sales of a DVD-copying program called RealDVD. In legal documents filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals...
- Tags: Software, Preliminary Injunction, CD, Apple iTunes, RealDVD, Piracy, Digital Music, Sales Strategy, Digital Media, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Personal Technology, Sales, Consumer Electronics, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-11-11
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- Court upholds RealDVD injunction; supports outdated laws and Hollywood business model
- I have to admit that I am blown away by a judge's decision to grant a preliminary injunction on sales of RealDVD, RealNetworks' controversial software that allows consumers to rip DVD movies into a computer much the same way that CDs can be ripped. Even though I...
- Tags: Consumer, Software, RealDVD, Tools & Techniques, Digital Rights Management (DRM), DVD, Consumer Electronics, Management, Security, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-08-12
- Kindle draws fire at Arizona State
- According to a brief article in USA Today, students in the honors history of human culture and thought course at Arizona State University will be receiving Kindle ebook readers with the 30 required books for the course pre-loaded. The 30 required books for Humphrey's year-long course usually...
- Tags: Student, Kindle, E-books, Personal Technology, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-07-27
- Are Amazon and Real one-upping Apple?
- Twice this week, I've engaged in conversations about Apple missing the boat on potentially sweet markets that would have fit right into its iTunes growth strategy. The first conversation came after the release of the Kindle-DX, which apparently has a pretty healthy legion of fans who are...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Apple TV, Apple iTunes, DVD, E-books, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-05-08
- Real misses for Q1, swings to loss; mentions "Facet"
- Real Networks today reported a first quarter loss of $12.1 million, or 10 cents a share, on sales of $140.8 million, a five percent drop from the year-ago quarter. In the year ago quarter, the company reported a net profit of $2.4 million, or 8 cents per share. Statement ...
- Tags: Software, Revenue, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Tools & Techniques, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Management, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-05-07
- Psystar: Apple's terms violate U.S. monopoly laws
- Psystar: Apple's terms violate U.S. monopoly lawsPar for the courseLet someone else do all the work and try to make a buck off it.... Isn't that textbook moderm American business?I agreeIt would be quite shameful if Apple tried to make a buck off of Psystar's hard work.Then is Psystar technically...
- Tags: Operating systems, Digital media, Digital music, Psystar, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-04-15
- Wikileaks case emphasizes rule against prior restraint
- Paul Alan Levy of Public Citizen has a Google Comment up on the whole Wikileaks fiasco. Now that Julius Baer has moved for dismissal, We are confident that judges in such future cases will have learned the lesson taught by the proceedings in federal...
- Tags: Bank, Restraint, Alan Levy, Financial Services, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-03-06
- Judge reconsiders injunction in Wikileaks case
- If you're a lawyer, you gotta love this. At the end of the day Thursday, Federal Judge Jeffrey White -- the judge who issued the shut-down notice against Wikileaks -- released his questions for argument PDF for Friday morning's hearing regarding that order. White also...
- Tags: Plaintiff, Wikileaks, Web Site Development, Productivity, Government, Web Technology, Domain Names, Financial Accounting, Internet, Finance, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-02-28
- Patent reform: Stopping the insanity or inventor ripoff?
- Over the summer, a jury handed down a record-setting award in a patent infringement case against Microsoft: $1.5 billion. Alcatel-Lucent claimed Microsoft had infringed their patents in the "backup HQ encoder" in Windows Media Player. The jury calculated the damages by giving Alcatel-Lucent 0.5 percent of the average cost of...
- Tags: Patent, Perlman, Microsoft Windows, Intellectual Property, Operating Systems, Software, Research & Development, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-01-13
- Appeals court: Damn the whales, full steam ahead
- It seems like every year at this time, the Navy wants to use sonar in training exercises off the California coast, and every time the issue winds up in court. This year, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals gave the Navy the thumbs up, Reuters reports. There...
- Tags: Panel, Sonar, Mitigation, Navy, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2007-11-13
- Judge overturns CA's violent videogame law
- A federal judge Monday overturned a California law that would make it illegal to sell violent video games to minors, Reuters reports. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said he would appeal the ruling.The 2005 law required labeling of violent video games and forbade the sale to minors. Judge Ronald Whyte, who had...
- Tags: Game, Video Game, Video, Computer Associates International Inc., ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-08-07
- Cisco v Apple Trademark Infringement, Unfair Competition Complaint
- Following is the complaint filed by Cisco over Apples use of the iPhone name:COMPLAINT FOR TRADEMARK INFRINGEMENT, UNFAIR COMPETITION, FALSE DESCRIPTION, AND INJURY TO BUSINESS REPUTATION; CASE NO.FOLGER LEVIN & KAHN LLPMichael A. Kahn (SB# 057432, mkahn@flk.com)Gregory D. Call (SB# 120483, gcall@flk.com)Michael F. Kelleher (SB# 165493, mkelleher@flk.com)Beatrice B. Nguyen (SB#...
- Tags: General, Legal, Apple, Cisco, iPhone, Cisco Systems Inc., U.S.C.
- Blog posts 2007-01-10
- U.S. capitalism vs. Web democracy
- U.S. capitalism vs. Web democracyIt's a no-brainerOf course the court is right. Why should any 2.0 jerk be allowed to hook into the content of somebody else when they aren't paying the costs to provide the content? The sponsors aren't getting their sponsoring value if their logos are being...
- Tags: Channel management, U.S. Capitalism, Web Democracy, Web, Davis
- Discussion threads 2006-12-22
- U.S. capitalism vs. Web democracy
- In “Google AdSense + Google ‘fair-use’ = bloggers ripped-off” I put forth: “When money is at stake, imitation is generally the most insincere form of flattery.” When money is at stake, a federal judge in Texas has deemed that it is unlawful to provide a hyperlink to a Webcast if...
- Tags: Digital media, Web technology, SFX, Webcast, Web
- Blog posts 2006-12-22
- Complex APIs/copyright case moves forward even as early injunction denied
- An early injunction in the software intellectual property case between Green Hills Software and Express Logic has been denied, allowing Green Hills to continue to sell and support its embedded microkernel RTOS micro-velOSity product. Express Logic has sought remediation against Green Hills on the product, saying it violates its intellectual...
- Tags: Express Logic, Green Hills, early injunction, arbitration
- Blog posts 2006-11-20
- Supreme Court rules for eBay in patents case
- In the closely watched case of eBay v MercExchange, which focused on whether a court must automatically issue a preliminary injunction on a patent infringement claim, the Supreme Court came down strongly on the side of high-tech companies accused of patent infringement. Click here for PDF of the decision ...
- Tags: patent
- Blog posts 2006-05-15
- Why a landmark court case could force you to redo your whole Web site
- Is your Web site accessible to people with disabilities PWDs? Particularly to those with impaired vision? Do you even know what the definition of such accessibility is? Probably not. But you may have to thanks to a landmark case now getting underway between the National Federation of...
- Tags: Web site development, Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Web technology, Web, NFB, accessibility, Web site, people with disability, lawsuit
- Blog posts 2006-05-11
- Bye, bye BlackBerry?
- Bye, bye BlackBerry?Message has been deleted.I'm confused...In one story we read NTP's patents are being overturned. In this one, they are shutting down RIM because of those patents.What the hell is going on?So he with the most $ in lawyer fees wins?It seems like the winner of this will...
- Tags: Goverment, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Research In Motion Ltd., NTP, RIM BlackBerry, patent
- Discussion threads 2006-02-23
- BlackBerry releases full service interruption workaround software details
- BlackBerry releases full service interruption workaround software detailsReport it accuratelySince many of us scan these reports and may or may not get beyond the first couple of paragraphs, it's important that the facts in the opening paragraphs be correct. In the report you stated,"The injunction, which theoretically could occur as...
- Tags: NTP, Research In Motion Ltd., RIM BlackBerry
- Discussion threads 2006-02-09
- NTP says payment would end RIM dispute
- NTP says payment would end RIM disputeSounds like a mob deal"Give us 5 points on your business and we'll leave you alone"Could be a quote right out of the Sopranos.Why would RIMM give NTP 5% when the same amount can buy the entire company?NTSounds like NTP is trying to get...
- Tags: civil lawsuit, payment, NTP, patent, Research In Motion Ltd.
- Discussion threads 2005-12-09
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