Raleigh, N.C. - Lulu.com, an online marketplace for digital content, announced that it is partnering with the Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) at Carnegie Mellon University "to showcase new creative endeavors launched through the ETC Press, a new academic publishing imprint." Under the arrangement, all ETC Press publications will be released under a Creative Commons license, and will also have associated websites to "encourage and enable a community of collaborative authorship and discussion," according to the announcement. Lulu.com itself has over 380,000 recently published titles, and more than 5,000 new titles added each week, created by people in 80 different countries.

Raleigh, N.C. - Lulu Enterprises, which operates Lulu -- an online marketplace where creators can publish, buy and sell digital content -- has filed a trademark suit against "Hulu," the forthcoming Web video distribution joint venture between News Corp. and NBC Universal.

Raleigh, N.C. - Lulu.com, an online marketplace where users can buy and sell digital content, announced on Thursday a partnership with Universal Press Syndicate, the world's largest independent newspaper syndicate. The deal will see the syndicate make its many comic strip characters available to Lulu users, for use in creating books, calendars and other content for their own use, or for sale through Lulu.

Raleigh, N.C. - Lulu.com, an online marketplace for user-generated digital content, announced on Thursday an agreement with online photo agency Getty Images. Under the deal, authors, creators and organizations will have access to select Getty content to enhance and monetize their original works. When an item containing a licensed Getty image is sold at Lulu.com, the usage fee will be included in the selling price. North Carolina-based Lulu.com claims one million registered members in 80 countries that have published over 200,000 titles.