DMW Daily, September 26, 2008Washington
- The U.S. Senate on Friday approved the PRO-IP Act, which will beef up penalties
and enforcement of intellectual property laws -- but the bill as passed did not
include a controversial provision that would have granted the Justice Dept. new
authority to prosecute civil copyright infringement cases.
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San Francisco - A federal
appeals court has overturned a $1.5 billion damages award that Microsoft had
been ordered to pay France's
Alcatel-Lucent over patents related to MP3 technology, CNET News.com reported.
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Los Angeles
- After independent record label bodies including Merlin and A2IM criticized
MySpace for not offering them an equity position in its MySpace Music joint
venture with the major record labels, MySpace responded in a statement saying
it offered all labels the same deal, while independent
music digital distributor The Orchard, which signed on with MySpace Music, explained its decision.
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Los Angeles - The creator of online mixtape service Muxtape
has posted on his website the details of how the site was shutdown at the
behest of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) last month, at a
time when he was in active discussions with the major labels on licensing
deals, and how he walked away from the licensing deals and will re-launch the
service from scratch as a promotional tool for bands.
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San Francisco
- Major record label Universal Music Group is developing an online hub for
music videos that will be similar in scope to Hulu, the website joint venture
of News Corp. and NBC Universal that streams a range of TV shows and movies
from its partners, CNET News.com reported, citing a source close to the
company.
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Miami, Fla.
- The Florida Supreme Court this week permanently disbarred Miami attorney Jack Thompson, a vocal critic
of violence in video games who had specifically targeted Take-Two Interactive
and its "Grand Theft Auto" franchise.
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Los Angeles - The Pirate Bay,
the notorious Sweden-based file-sharing tracker site, is now once again legally
available in Italy,
after the site successfully appealed the ruling last month of an Italian judge,
TorrentFreak reported.
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Helsinki
- Nokia will introduce the company's first touch-screen phone model to
challenge the Apple iPhone next week, Reuters reports, citing two industry
sources.
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McLean, Va. - Bulletin News, a provider of
business-focused news content, has raised $5 million from Dubilier & Co., a
private equity firm.
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London
- Shazam, the developer of a mobile music discovery application that can
identify tunes played within earshot of a mobile phone's microphone, said this
week that its application for Apple's iPhone has been downloaded over 1.5
million times in its first six weeks of availability.
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San Diego
- MP3tunes, the digital music locker storage and streaming service launched by
MP3.com founder Michael Robertson, this week introduced a new feature,
Load2Mobile, which allows users to load songs to their phones from any computer,
music website or their MP3tunes Music Lockers.
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New York - Viacom's Atom.com digital comedy network said
this week that it has signed a first-look production deal with writer-director
Sandeep Parikh, whose "Legend of Neil" series on the site has
generated 700,000 plays since debuting in August.
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Fairfax,
Va. - Game developer Mythic
Entertainment announced that in the first week since the launch of its
EA-published "Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning!" game over 500,000
new players have registered for the fantasy game.
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