Nude Photo Publisher Perfect 10 Sues Google
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A California-based pornographer said on Monday it has sued Google Inc. (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research) , alleging that its leading Internet search engines are
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Playboy magazine on Tuesday  posted to its Web site an unpublished portion from its  interview with Google's founders, which raised regulatory  eyebrows not for what it revealed, but for its timing -- just  before the Internet search engine's much-anticipated initial  public offering.
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Google has reached a settlement in its copyright suit in Belgium with with news photographers and journalists. The NY Times (reg req&#8217;d) carries the Bloomberg story:  Google, the world&#8217;s most-used Internet search engine, reached a settlement with Belgian photographers and journalists yesterday in a copyright dispute over how Google&#8217;s news service links to newspaper content. The [...]
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The Motion Picture Association (MPA) -- the international representative of the movie industry -- has filed a civil suit against Shenzhen Xunlei Networking Technology, which operates a a peer-to-peer file sharing service based in China called Xunlei that's part-owned by Google.
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Penthouse International Inc., the former publisher of the men's magazine, was sued by the Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday for improperly booking $1 million in revenue in the first quarter of 2003.
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Blog: The National Legal and Policy Center is after Google to clean up copyright infringement on its video sites.
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Playboy Publishes More of the Google Interview on Playboy.com  Playboy magazine on Tuesday published previously unsyndicated interview excerpts to its Web site from its interview with Google's founders. The original interview was published just before the Internet search engine's much-anticipated initial public offering.  In the never before seen excerpt on Playboy.com, Google ...
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The wholesome image of Vanessa  Hudgens, star of the made-for-kids TV movie hit &quot;High School  Musical,&quot; was under fire on Friday because of a nude photo  circulating on the Internet, creating a new publicity challenge  for the Walt Disney Co.
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Actress Catherine Zeta-Jones has sued a Nevada strip club for using a picture of her face to promote itself on the Web as "The Friendliest Topless Cabaret in Reno."
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(InfoWorld) - Media company Viacom said on Tuesday that it was filing suit against Google Inc. for what it alleges are "massive intentional copyright infringement" of Viacomâs property. Viacom is seeking more than $1 billion in damages and asking the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York to place an injunction on Google and to prevent the company from sharing around 160,000 unauthorized video clips on the company's YouTube video sharing site, Viacom said in a statement. Google was not immediately available for comment. Viacom, which owns popular brands including MTV, Comedy Central, VH1 and Nickelodeon, said its programming had been viewed more than 1.5 billion times on YouTube, the video sharing site that Google purchased in October, 2006, for $1.6 billion. âYouTube is a significant, for-profit organization that has built a lucrative business out of exploiting the devotion of fans to othersâ creative works in order to enrich itself and its corporate parent Google," Viacom said in a statement.Â  "Their business model, which is based on building traffic and selling advertising off of unlicensed content, is clearly illegal and is in obvious conflict with copyright laws." The suit by Viacom follows a notice from Viacom in February, 2007 under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) to remove its videos from YouTube. Viacom alleges that Google does little to police copyright violations on YouTube. "This behavior stands in stark contrast to the actions of other significant distributors, who have recognized the fair value of entertainment content and have concluded agreements to make content legally available to their customers around the world," the company said. Shortly after buying YouTube in October, Google struck deals with Sony BMG Music Entertainment and Warner Music Group to offer music videos on YouTube and share advertising revenue. The company also negotiated with Viacom on a similar deal, but Viacom claims those negotiations were unproductive and that Google is following an "unlawful business model." "Therefore, we must turn to the courts to prevent Google and YouTube from continuing to steal value from artists and to obtain compensation for the significant damage they have caused," Viacom said.
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Actress Catherine Zeta-Jones has  sued a Nevada strip club for using a picture of her face to  promote itself on the Web as "The Friendliest Topless Cabaret  in Reno."
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The New York Times revealed Saturday that Google was the unidentified party mentioned in a US Dept. of Justice status report last March as having lodged a "middleware-related complaint" against Microsoft.  In addition, a memo by a key antitrust enforcement official that the Times also turned up, rejecting Google's arguments and advising states' prosecutors to reject them as well.
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A French film company filed a lawsuit against Google in the Paris Commercial Court, charging the search giant with copyright infringement.
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Auto insurance giant Geico sued the Internet search engine Google, arguing that Google should NOT be allowed to sell ads to rival insurers that appear whenever anyone does a search for &quot;Geico.
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A nonprofit group charges that Google hosts potentially copyrighted videos on Google Video.
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Victim sues for 'humiliation, embarrassment' A Texan former porn star has been slapped with a lawsuit for "stealing" a former classmate's name as her "nom de sex", the Houston Chronicle reports.â¦
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When Google meets kink A moment of narcissism by a blogger who covers kink, multiple sex partners and other topics has uncovered a sophisticated attack that secretly installed malware on end user machines by compromising thousands of websites maintained by a large webhost and ginning search results on Google.â¦