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Report: Leaked Emails Zing YouTube in Viacom Copyright Suit

Peter Kafka in Media on October 6, 2009 at 6:17 am PT

Viacom has been rummaging through Google and YouTube records for more than a year as part of its $1 billion copyright lawsuit. Did it get what it was looking for? Maybe.

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Internet Archive Founder Questions Google Books Settlement

Marisa Taylor, Tech Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on May 19, 2009 at 12:10 pm PT

Will the settlement agreement between Google’s Book Search Library Project and authors and publishers put Google in monopoly territory? That’s the argument that Brewster Kahle, co-founder of the Internet Archive, made in an op-ed in the Washington Post, in which he writes that the settlement “provides a new and unsettling form of media consolidation.”

Vista Capable Suit Downgraded to "Home Basic" from "Class Action Ultimate"

John Paczkowski in News on February 19, 2009 at 1:30 pm PT

Looks the three-hour deposition Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer gave in the so-called “Vista Capable” class action suit was for naught. A judge Wednesday ruled that the lawsuit, which has troubled Microsoft for nearly two years now, cannot go forward as a class action.