Electronic Frontier Foundation files a lawsuit against President Bush
Electronic Frontier Foundation has now filed a lawsuit against President George W. Bush and other senior members of his administration.
This lawsuit is related to the surveillance of emails and telephone calls which was conducted without any permission from the courts.
They claim in this lawsuit that the Bush [...]

Apple countersued by Psystar
Apple had recently filed a lawsuit against Psystar which sells an Apple Mac clone in the market.
Apple prohibits any PC manufacturer from selling computers which can run Mac OS X out of the box.
Now Psystar has countersued Apple charging the company with restraint of trade, unfair competition, and other violations of antitrust [...]

Facebook targets StudiVZ with a copyright violation lawsuit
Social networking service Facebook has filed a copyright violation lawsuit against a German company StudiVZ.
StudiVZ is being targeted for being too similar to Facebook visually and functionally.
Facebook claims that the service has copied the look, feel, features and services of their own network.
It further said that [...]

Psystar finally sued by Apple
Apple has finally filed a lawsuit against Psystar which was offering computer systems running Mac OS X operating system.
This lawsuit has been filed in the U.S. District Court in Northern California.
Apple is accusing Psystar of copyright infringement, induced copyright infringement, breach of contract and trademark infringement, among other things.
The Mac maker [...]

Google told to release YouTube records to Viacom
Search engine giant Google has been ordered by a US based court to provide data related to video-viewing habits of YouTube users to Viacom.
This ruling has been criticized by privacy groups. Google responded in a statement: “We are disappointed the court granted Viacom’s overreaching demand for viewing history.”
Viacom [...]

EMI sues VideoEgg, Hi5 and others for copyright infringement
EMI is targeting video sharing services like Hi5 and VideoEgg for copyright infringement.
The company claims that users of these services have uploaded media content which is owned by them.
The lawsuit includes 10 other unnamed defendants.
Market sources tell that EMI was in talks with these companies on a [...]

Apple announces settlement of Canadian lawsuits related to iPods
Apple has confirmed that they have now settled a pair of class-action lawsuits in Canada which claimed that they lied about the battery life of their iPod range of digital media players.
The company is now said to be offering credits of about $44.75 to Canadian customers on [...]

Project Playlist sued for copyright infringement
Project Playlist is an online service which enables web users to find, play and share music with others for free.
The company has become the latest target of media companies which have filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against them.
This new lawsuit has been filed in the U.S. District Court [...]

Seagate targets maker of solid state drives with patent infringement lawsuit
Seagate Technology is the dominating player in the hard disk market. The company had mentioned in the past that they were not scared of the emerging competition from the solid state drive market as they owned a lot of patents in this field.
They are now [...]