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Apple Tweaks iBook Language: Your Content Is Your Content

in Media on February 3 at 12:08 pm PT

A couple weeks after introducing its new iBooks Author app, Apple has clarified legal language about what happens to the books users create with the software. Apple continues to insist that users can only sell electronic books in the iBook format via its iTunes store. But it makes it clear that the content of those books can be sold in any other format, without Apple’s approval.

Video Game Tort: You Made Me Play You

in News on September 3, 2010 at 12:05 am PT

A federal judge in Hawaii ruled last month that a man claiming to be addicted to a videogame can sue the game’s maker for gross negligence in not warning him he could become a joystick junkie.

Apple: Psyonara, Psystar

in News on November 15, 2009 at 8:23 am PT

Psystar’s ill-starred crusade against Apple has ended in a total rout. U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup on Friday dropped the hammer on the Mac clone maker, granting Apple’s request for a summary judgment and denying Psystar’s counterclaim.
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Speaking of "Destroying Competition," Meet Our Legal Team From Mortify, Debase and Demolish LLP

in News on August 29, 2008 at 12:09 pm PT

Apple legal has some interesting weekend reading ahead of it. Mac clone maker Psystar filed its 54-page countersuit against Apple late Thursday and, as expected, it accuses the company of restraint of trade, unfair competition, and other violations of antitrust law.

Speaking of “Destroying Competition,” Meet Our Legal Team From Mortify, Debase and Demolish LLP

in News on August 29, 2008 at 12:09 pm PT

Apple legal has some interesting weekend reading ahead of it. Mac clone maker Psystar filed its 54-page countersuit against Apple late Thursday and, as expected, it accuses the company of restraint of trade, unfair competition, and other violations of antitrust law.

Psyonara …

in News on August 27, 2008 at 1:11 am PT

After twice failing to meet a deadline to formally respond to Apple’s charge that its OpenMacComputer Mac clones violate Apple copyrights, Psystar has finally answered Apple’s July 3 lawsuit–with one of its own. On Tuesday the company filed paperwork for a countersuit that accuses Apple of tying its OS to its hardware in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act and the Clayton Antitrust Act.