Duluth, Minn. - A jury has awarded the record labels that sued Jammie Thomas-Rasset for copyright infringement on a file-sharing network $1.92 million in damages, or $80,000 for each of the 24 songs she shared, the Recording Industry vs. The People blog reported. [more..]

Washington - The U.S. Senate has passed the Webcaster Settlement Act of 2009, which if signed by President Obama will allow webcasters to continue to negotiate the controversial royalty rates set by the Copyright Royalty Board with rights holders [more..]

London - Major record label EMI has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Grooveshark, a site that streams free music from all four major labels, All Things D reported. [more..]

San Antonio, Texas - Acknowledging customer outcry, AT&T has loosened the restrictions placed on the discount that current iPhone 3G owners can exercise when purchasing the new iPhone 3G S. [more..]

Paris - SPPF, a French royalty collection society for independent record labels, has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Google's YouTube, claiming $13.9 million in damages over videos removed from YouTube at SPPF's request last year that have since reappeared, Billboard reports. [more..]

Boston - Harvard Law professor Charles Nesson, who is defending Boston student Joel Tenenbaum against charges of copyright infringement on a file-sharing network by Sony, has been admonished by the judge for some of his legal tactics, Ars Technica reported. [more..]

Cologne, Germany - Music Networx, which operates the German live music portal Concert Online, has raised $4.6 million in new funding, led by Earlybird with participation from previous backers DuMont Venture and Klaus Wecken. [more..]

New York - Animoto, the provider of a Web-based video creation platform, announced on Thursday that it ahs raised $4.4 million in its second round of funding, led by Madrona Venture Group. [more..]

Washington - Clarity Media Group, the Denver-based publisher of The Washington Examiner, said that it will pay an undisclosed sum to buy DC-based conservative opinion magazine and website The Weekly Standard from owner News Corp. [more..]

Sausalito, Calif. - Adgregate Markets, a provider of transactional advertising technology, announced on Thursday that it has acquired Gydget, a provider of brand-oriented widget advertising services. [more..]

New York - Hoping to give a boost to its lagging subscriber base, Sirius XM on Thursday launched its long-awaited application for the iPhone and iPod touch. [more..]

Mountain View, Calif. - Google again led the U.S. search market in May, conducting 65% of all searches -- nearly a full percentage point higher than April -- according to new figures from Internet audience measurement firm comScore. [more..]

San Francisco - Sega of America and Sega Europe on Thursday announced that Naoya Tsurumi, the longstanding leader of the company's video game business, will assume worldwide responsibility for Sega's consumer business, which includes its Japanese, American and European units. [more..]

Redwood City, Calif. - Electronic Arts on Thursday named John Schappert as its new COO, following news that John Pleasants will leave the company to become the new CEO of social game developer Playdom. [more..]