321 Studios Reaches Settlement in DVD Copying Dispute
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By JIM SALTER      ST. LOUIS  -- A company driven out of business by Hollywood and the video game industry over its DVD- and computer game-copying software has reached a settlement with the motion picture industry...
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Hollywood directors have reached a tentative contract deal with studios after five days of negotiations, the directors union said Thursday
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LOS ANGELES  - Warner Bros. has secured  a $309,600 judgment against an actor for allegedly making  promotional "screener" copies of "The Last Samurai" and "Mystic  River" available for bootleg DVD copying and unauthorized  Internet trading, the studio said Tuesday.
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Universal Music Group, a unit of France's  Vivendi, and Bolt Inc. said they reached an out-of-court  settlement resolving the copyright infringement lawsuit brought  by UMG against Bolt last year.
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The Japanese electronics giant struck an agreement to buy the fabled movie studio yesterday after rival Time Warner dropped out of the race.
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McKesson, the nation's largest drug distributor, agreed to pay $960 million to settle a lawsuit based on accounting fraud at HBOC, a health care software company.
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Hollywood directors reached a tentative contract deal Thursday with studios, a development that could turn up the pressure on striking writers to settle their 2-month-old walkout that has idled production on dozens of TV shows.
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Electronics firm will support HP's rewritable DVD technology and separately partner with Microsoft on digital rights management.
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Bertelsmann AG settled a lawsuit filed  by the National Music Publishers&#39; Association that charged the  media company&#39;s investment in file sharing service Napster  encouraged the abuse of copyrighted content.
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The computer company and the record label settle long-standing trademark dispute.
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(InfoWorld) - A Beijing court has convicted and fined operators of a pirated DVD shop Monday, the Motion Picture Association (MPA) said. The owners of the shop, Beijing Century Hai Hong Trading Co., were found guilty of copyright infringement for selling pirated copies of DVD movies. Judge Song Guang of the Beijing Second Intermediate People's Court ordered the company to pay damages of 164,000 yuan ($20,964) to the copyright holders, and to immediately cease sale of all pirated DVDs. The pirated films sold by Beijing Century Hai Hong were all from MPA member companies, but the MPA did not state which members nor name the films involved in the case, in a Tuesday statement. The MPA is the international arm of the Motion Picture Association of America, the American film industry's lobbying group. It is comprised of Hollywood's largest film studios: Buena Vista International; Paramount Pictures; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; Twentieth Century Fox International; Sony Pictures Releasing International; Warner Brothers International Theatrical Distribution; and Universal International Films.
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The two companies said they had agreed to settle a copyright infringement lawsuit over a portable music player sold by XM that enables users to make digital copies of music.
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Two companies, a door manufacturer and a dental laboratory network, have agreed to pay tens of thousands of dollars to settle Business Software Alliance (BSA) claims that they had unlicensed software on their computers.TruStile Doors, a manufacturer of residential and commercial doors based in Denver, has agreed to pay $92,500 to settle BSA claims that it had unlicensed copies of Microsoft and Symantec software on its computers, the BSA said Monday.The company has developed a software license management program, according to a BSA news release.Sentage, a national network of dental laboratories and provider of other dental services, based in Minneapolis, has agreed to pay $80,000 to settle claims that it had unlicensed copies of Microsoft and Symantec software on its computers.Both companies also agreed to delete all unlicensed copies of software installed on their computers, acquire any necessary replacement licenses, and implement stronger software license management practices, the BSA said.BSA wants the settlements to &quot;remind businesses of all industries about the high price of infringement and the importance of software compliance,&quot; Jenny Blank, BSA&#39;s senior director of legal affairs, said in a statement.BSA offers rewards of up to $1 million for qualifying reports of unlicensed software, although actual awards are often much less.
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Blog: Long-running dispute between the server and software company and the smaller Java hardware maker ends with an undisclosed settlement, and both sides say they're content.
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Company says Arbinet will settle in copyright infringement dispute.
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The operators of a Spanish-based Web site that sold music downloads have agreed to pay &#36;10.5 million to settle a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by several recording companies.
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In 10-year deal, companies to provide IP television services like video on demand, DV recording. NEW YORK  - SBC Communications said Wednesday that it reached a 10-year, $400 million deal with Microsoft