Lawsuit claims "Hannah Montana" idea stolen
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The Los Angeles comedy writer-producer who penned Fox's "In Living Color" and created Nickelodeon's "Roundhouse" has sued the Walt Disney Co., claiming it stole the idea for its hit Disney Channel show, "Hannah Montana," from him.
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Producers of the ABC reality series  "Wife Swap" sued Fox television on Wednesday for copyright  infringement, accusing the rival network of ripping off their  show with the "virtually identical" Fox show "Trading Spouses."
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The Los Angeles comedy  writer-producer who penned Fox&#39;s &quot;In Living Color&quot; and created  Nickelodeon&#39;s &quot;Roundhouse&quot; has sued the Walt Disney Co.,  claiming it stole the idea for its hit Disney Channel show,  &quot;Hannah Montana,&quot; from him.
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An appeals court should throw out a half-billion-dollar patent infringement judgment against Microsoft because a lower court failed to recognize that the Web browsing patent was based on a technology that was not invented by the company awarded the money
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Including snippets of another artist's song in your work -- a popular rapper technique known as 'sampling' -- may violate copyright law, an appeals court rules.
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Blog: A case pitting a trademark "entrepreneur" against baseball legend George Brett prompts a federal appeals court judge to cite a YouTube.com video of Brett's famous game against the New York Yankees.
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YouTube may soon be facing yet another suit over the use of copyrighted music in one of its videos, this time from the company that owns the rights to the music produced by the Village People.
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The Motion Picture Association of America sued YouTVpc and Peekvid.com, claiming they illegally post copyrighted material.
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LONDON  - The creator of U.K. talent  show "Pop Idol" and its U.S. spinoff "American Idol" is suing  his former collaborators, including Simon Cowell, claiming that  their new project is a rip-off of the global "Idol" format.
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Producers of the ABC reality series "Wife Swap" sued Fox television on Wednesday for copyright infringement, accusing the rival network of ripping off their show with the "virtually identical" Fox show "Trading Spouses."
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"Copyright officials recommended on Thursday that U.S. law be amended so that companies that rely on copyright infringement to make a profit can be held liable for their actions."  Which of course applies only to US companies.  Kazaa should be free and clear.  ...  Should have supplied a link.  I'm a BAD blogger!
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The Web site has been fighting claims that its founder stole the idea. Now another man says he was the creator.
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Entertainment conglomerate Viacom Inc. today sued video-sharing site YouTube and corporate parent Google Inc. over what it alleges is massive copyright infringement, escalating a battle over how video content is distributed over the Internet.
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A judge on Friday referred to mediation a lawsuit by a veteran writer who claims he pitched the idea for the hit "Hannah Montana" show and has never been compensated.
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Miley Cyrus and father Billy Ray Cyrus are admitting they goofed.   "We got caught up in the moment of filming, and we made a mistake and forgot to buckle our seatbelts," Billy Ray Cyrus tells PEOPLE about a gaffe in the hit 3-D movie Hannah Montana/...
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Paris Hilton is suing over the use of her picture and catchphrase "That's hot" on a greeting card. Hilton sued Hallmark Cards Inc. in U.S. District Court seeking an injunction and unspecified damages to be determined at trial.
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The daughter of a woman who died after choking on her lunch at Youville Hospital &amp; Rehabilitation Center sued the hospital and two medical staff members yesterday, charging that their attempts to save Rosalyn Pearl were "a comedy of errors" that exposed poor emergency training as well as faulty life-saving equipment at the Cambridge facility.