Los Angeles - The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has responded to an allegation that the studios are "against innovation" with an open letter to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a digital civil liberties group that has sided with RealNetworks in a dispute with the studios over the company's DVD-copying software, CNET News.com reported.

San Francisco - A federal judge on Tuesday ruled to extend an injunction against the sale of RealNetworks' (NASD: RNWK) DVD-copying RealDVD software, while a lawsuit targeting the software lodged by the Hollywood movie studios proceeds, according to reports.

Los Angeles - A federal judge has ordered a temporary halt to the sales of RealNetworks' (NASD: RNWK) new DVD-copying software, RealDVD, siding with Hollywood movie studios who asked for an injunction while the court hears its arguments that the software facilitates copyright infringement, NewTeeVee reported. A RealNetworks representative told NewTeeVee the judge ordered the halt until Tuesday so that all of the papers filed in the case may be reviewed.

Seattle - RealNetworks (NASD: RNWK) on Tuesday filed a pre-emptive lawsuit against the Hollywood movie studios and the DVD Copy Control Association (DVD CCA) -- which licenses the anti-copying technology found on DVDs -- asking a federal judge to rule that its recently-released software that can make copies of DVDs does not violate the DVD CCA's license agreement. Seattle-based Real said it filed the lawsuit "in response to threats made by the major movie studios"; its lawsuit names Disney (NYSE: DIS), Paramount, Sony Pictures (NYSE: SNE), Fox (NYSE: NWS), NBC Universal (NYSE: GE), Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX) and Viacom (NYSE: VIA) as defendants.