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- Europeans vote to give Google Book deal a hard time
- More trouble (read: good news) in the Google Books settlement. EurActiv reports that EU ministers will recommend the European Commission investigate the implications of the settlement on European authors. A source told the site: Several member states will raise concerns during the meeting, but it...
- Tags: Google Inc., Germany, Settlement, Author, Member State, Litigation, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-05-28
- Jammie Thomas case heads for retrial
- Jammie Thomas and the recording industry have failed to come to a settlement in the now-infamous case of Capitol Records v. Thomas, Wired reports. That shouldn't come as a surprise since Thomas has said she would never settle. Her lawyer, Brian Toder, merely said: ...
- Tags: Settlement, Litigation, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-05-12
- Authors get extension in Google Books Settlement
- A victory for authors in the Google Book Deal: Judge Denny Chin has extended the deadline ( by Richard Koman
- Tags: Google Inc., Settlement, Author, Books, Litigation, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-04-28
- Opposition to Google's book deal: Just Microsoft?
- Last fall, Google announced a breakthrough deal with book authors -- a $125 million fund from which authors would be compensated in exchange for Google being able to scan and display book images. I noted at the time that the deal offered a way out of...
- Tags: Google Inc., Settlement, Microsoft Corp., Litigation, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-04-04
- OIN: TomTom settlement is no win for Microsoft, expect challenge
- OIN: TomTom settlement is no win for Microsoft, expect challengeI don't get itFor all the hootin' and hollerin' about this being an attack on Linux, I just don't see what the big deal is. Microsoft signed a license agreement with Tom Tom on a couple patents that cover parts of...
- Tags: Litigation, Linux, Microsoft Corp., TomTom, settlement, OIN, patent
- Discussion threads 2009-03-31
- OIN: TomTom settlement is no win for Microsoft, expect challenge
- Microsoft may view its legal settlement with TomTom as a patent victory of sorts but it's a hollow and meaningless win in the eyes of some in the open source community. Open Invention Network CEO Keith Bergelt said the settlement announced yesterday was anticipated and expected and...
- Tags: Patent, TomTom, Settlement, Microsoft Corp., Linux, Litigation, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Business Operations, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2009-03-31
- Facebook settlement revealed via poor PDF redaction
- Facebook's confidential settlement of a lawsuit brought by social networking site ConnectU -- created by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's Harvard classmates, and worked on by a young Zuckerberg himself -- was revealed Wednesday when Associated Press writer Michael Liedtke reported that redacted portions of a PDF transcript of a court...
- Tags: Facebook, Document, Adobe PDF, Settlement, Litigation, Business Operations, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-02-13
- $22.5 million cash settlement for Apple iPod nano owners
- $22.5 million cash settlement for Apple iPod nano ownersGlad to know that you condone this type of behavior[i]On the other hand, with $28 billion in cash in the bank, $22.5 million works out to less than 1/10th of 1 percent of Apple's available cash. C'est la vie.[/i]So it is okay...
- Tags: Litigation, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Apple iPod Nano, Apple iPod, Apple Inc., Apple Products
- Discussion threads 2009-01-23
- $22.5 million cash settlement for Apple iPod nano owners
- Apple has settled a $22.5 million class-action suit filed against the company after receiving complaints from early Apple iPod nano owners that the devices scratched too easily. The settlement calls for Apple to set aside the $22.5 million. Nano users who apply for a refund...
- Tags: Apple iPod, Settlement, Apple iPod Nano, Apple Inc., Attorney, Litigation, Digital Music, Digital Media, Business Operations, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-01-23
- Westward III (Windows)
- Steer the fortunes of three pioneers as they build and defend their ever-growing settlement in WestwardR 3, the latest chapter in the popular series of adventure games. When gold is discovered in the Northern California wilderness, speculators flock west in hopes of striking it rich. Navigate uncharted terrain rich in...
- Tags: Settlement, Microsoft Windows, Sandlot Games, Litigation, Business Operations
- Software downloads 2009-01-11
- LA school district and Deloitte in $18m failure settlement
- Implementation consulting firm, Deloitte, will pay the Los Angeles Unified School District LAUSD $8.25m and forgo $10m in unpaid invoices to settle a long-standing dispute over payroll problems arising during an SAP implementation. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Deloitte LLP, Settlement, Payroll, IT Devil, Payroll Solutions, Operational Accounting, Finance, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-12-16
- Viacom perks up at Google Books settlement
- Google's settlement with authors could be good news for Viacom, the New York Times' Miguel Helft says. That's because the authors at least think Google has conceded that it needs prior permission in order to scan books. Under the agreement authors must give permission for works to...
- Tags: Google Inc., Permission, Settlement, Books, Agreement, Viacom Inc., Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-30
- Will Google book settlement solve orphan works?
- Google and book authors have settled over Google Book Search. The $125 million settlement will create a fund to pay royalties to authors and, Google, thinks cause orphan works copyright holders to come forward and claim their share. by Richard Koman
- Tags: Google Inc., Settlement, Litigation, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-28
- Google settles book scan suit for $125 million
- Google and The Authors Guild, the Association of American Publishers said Tuesday that they have settled a book scanning lawsuit for $125 million. The agreement ends a two-year class action suit over Google's scanning of in-copyright books and other written property for its Google Book Search. The...
- Tags: Google Inc., Settlement, Agreement, Litigation, Operational Accounting, Business Operations, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-28
- Webcaster Settlement Act of 2008 passes; Pandora to continue royalty negotiations
- On Friday night Tim Westergren and his dedicated Pandora team worked overnight to rev up listeners once again to get on the phone with their local Congressional representatives and fight in favor of the Webcaster Settlement Act of 2008 (HR 7084). Once the House voted in favor of the bill...
- Tags: Settlement, Negotiation, Webcaster, Pandora, Free Trade, Team Management, Finance, Management, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- Debt Settlement and Calls from Creditors 1.1 (Windows)
- One of the most important drawbacks of debt settlement program is that calls from creditors and collection companies will persist while the client is in the debt settlement program. Debt settlement typically operates wherein the client stops making payments to his creditors directly. Moreover, most of the debt settlement companies...
- Tags: Settlement, Creditor, Microsoft Windows, Litigation, Operational Accounting, Business Operations, Finance
- Software downloads 2008-09-04
- Interconnecting Eyeballs to Content: A Shapley Value Perspective on ISP Peering and Settlement
- Internet Service Providers ISPs must interconnect to provide global Internet connectivity to users. The payment structure of these interconnections are often negotiated and maintained via bilateral agreements. Current differences of opinion in the appropriate revenue model in the Internet have on occasion caused ISPs to de-peer from one another, hindering...
- Tags: Settlement, Internet Service Provider, Service Provider, Internet Service, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Business Services
- White papers 2008-08-22
- Maintain an automated networked database? GraphOn wants to sue you
- Maintain an automated networked database? GraphOn wants to sue youLitigious Theft. Where does it end?People/Companies like mosquitos, stealing a living by sucking the life blood of others. HEY the internet was my idea, you all owe me billions of dollars. They need to get in line behind...
- Tags: Litigation, database, patent, GraphOn, prior art, software patent, settlement, Google Inc., software
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- Why are vendors waiting for the SFLC lawsuit?
- Why are vendors waiting for the SFLC lawsuit?They are hosed.They have no leg to stand on, and obviously, they are using GPLed software with proprietary methods that they don't want to disclose. Since the long term relief is simply that they must stop using BusyBox or release the full...
- Tags: SFLC
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
- MySpace plays more spam Whac-a-Mole; Wins $6 million settlement
- MySpace has won a $6 million spam settlement against an affiliate network called Media Breakaway and its CEO Scott Richter. The MySpace victory comes a month after it won a $230 million settlement against well-known spammers Stanford Wallace and Walter Rines. In its latest victory,...
- Tags: Settlement, MySpace, Cyberthreats, Spam, Litigation, Security, Spam And Phishing, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-16

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