Tech Law

Joining the line of telecom companies suing Vonage, AT&T on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the VoIP provider in the U.S. District Court in Madison, Wis., according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission and the company's statements. The suit centers around a patent filed in 1...

Joining the line of telecom companies suing Vonage, AT&T on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the VoIP provider in the U.S. District Court in Madison, Wis., according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission and the company's statements. The suit centers around a patent filed in 1...

Joining the line of telecom companies suing Vonage, AT&T on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the VoIP provider in the U.S. District Court in Madison, Wis., according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission and the company's statements. The suit centers around a patent filed in 1...

Microsoft will not appeal the 2004 ruling against it by European antitrust regulators any further and has reached an agreement to bring it into compliance with all aspects of the ruling's wide-ranging penalties. Microsoft had the option of appealing a ruling made in September by the Court of First I...

Two executives from Village Voice Media, parent company of The Village Voice and other alternative newspapers, were arrested Thursday night on a misdemeanor charge for revealing in The Phoenix New Times that they had been subpoenaed for a raft of reporters' notes and documents as well as information...

The New England Patriots NFL football team now has customer information from ticket reselling service StubHub. The team gained access to a reported 13,000 records of people who purchased, sold or bid on Patriots tickets on the site after taking StubHub to court. Massachusetts Superior Court Judge Al...

A group of heavy-hitting media and Internet players have hammered out a plan to thwart the uploading and Web publication of copyrighted material, particularly video clips. Key to the plan's effectiveness is technology that will determine if content being posted to Web sites, such as MySpace and Veoh...

The music industry switched gears last week in its legal campaign to squash piracy of its intellectual property and filed a lawsuit against Usenet.com which it calls "a haven for those seeking pirated content." In recent months, the industry, through its trade organization, the Recording Industry As...

New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo and Facebook announced Tuesday an agreement that calls for increased enforcement of safeguards aimed at protecting children and adolescents on the site from sexual predators, obscene content and harassment. Under the terms of the settlement, Facebook will be...

Two men have been successfully prosecuted for sending out millions of unsolicited e-mail messages promoting pornographic Web sites, and reaping millions of dollars as a result. Jeffrey A. Kilbride of Venice, Calif., was sentenced to six years, and James R. Schaffer of Paradise Valley, Ariz., was sen...

The U.S. Supreme Court Monday declined to take up an appeal brought by Microsoft and Best Buy, who wanted the high court to overturn a lower court decision that allowed a lawsuit alleging fraud and racketeering to move forward. Without comment and with no apparent dissent, the justices refused to he...

Two committees within the U.S. House of Representatives have approved a bill put forth by Democrats this week as an alternative to the broad surveillance legislation rushed through in August to update the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978. Known as the "Restore Act," short for the Respon...

With all the social networking and photo-sharing Web sites out there, few teenagers are taken by surprise when they find that pictures they posed for have been posted online by their friends. However, few expect to see their likeness then featured, without their permission, on a billboard advertisem...

The legal saga of the first file-sharing lawsuit brought by the record labels to make it before a jury isn't over just yet. Jammie Thomas, who was ordered to pay $222,000 after a jury found her responsible for posting two dozen songs on the Kazaa file-sharing network, announced through her MySpace b...

Vonage saw its stock soar some 75 percent Monday after the Voice over Internet Protocol firm settled a patent infringement dispute with Sprint Nextel that gives it the right to use Sprint technology going forward. The settlement could help Vonage turn a punishing legal setback into a positive develo...