Firms seek online copyright pact
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Firms including Viacom, Walt Disney and Myspace unite to set guidelines to protect copyright online.
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The European Commission said Thursday it would draw up plans to boost the online market for music, films and games while promising to uphold intellectual property rights.
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An alliance of technology and media companies releases a set of principles for promoting user-generated content while protecting copyright online.
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Peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharers in the UK could soon face legal action from the recording industry. Record companies in other countries have already started legal action against people sharing copyrighted music online.
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Internet service providers and other technology firms are proposing to soften a bill in Congress that they claim will make them targets of frivolous entertainment industry copyright lawsuits.
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National Public Radio is teaming up with online radio broadcasters to appeal new music royalties that they say would put smaller operators out of business and force others to sharply scale back their online music offerings.
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Media companies including Viacom  , Microsoft Corp. , News Corp.'s  Fox  and MySpace units and others have agreed to guidelines aimed at  protecting copyrights online, a source familiar with the matter  said on Thursday.
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Viacom wants cash Some of the world's biggest media companies have announced a copyright protection pact with a group of video-happy net businesses that doesn't include Google and YouTube.â¦
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Google announced yesterday that they have agreements with several large libraries to scan books whose copyrights have expired. Joseph O&#39;Sullivan, Software engineer and Adam M. Smith, Business product manager
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Copyright officials recommended on Thursday that US law be amended so that companies that rely on copyright infringement to make a profit can be held liable for their actions.
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Internet service providers and other technology firms are proposing to soften a bill in Congress that they claim will make them targets of frivolous entertainment industry copyright lawsuits.    The group, which includes Verizon Communications Inc., SBC Communications Inc...
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The world's biggest electronics firms are working on systems to stop digital content being pirated.
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Technical and legal pact calls for product interoperability and legal protections for common customers.
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By byron kho. A consortium of movie and record companies joined forces on Friday to request that the US Supreme Court take another look at peer-to-peer file-sharing programs.
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Three major recording companies have agreed to make their music available to be shared and sold over a new online file-swapping service.
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Company beefs up online service for shipping business information between firms over the Net.
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A new round of lawsuits aimed at prolific Internet song-swappers could be announced as early as Thursday as music executives meet in London to discuss the next step in their global war on Internet piracy.