Taiwan firm drops China iPod libel case
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A Taiwanese firm has dropped its libel   claim against two Shanghai journalists and their newspaper for   saying that workers at a plant manufacturing iPods were   mistreated, the official Xinhua news agency said on Sunday.
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Spanish-language TV broadcaster Univision Communications has dropped a lawsuit against Manhattan-based Nielsen Media Research over a new television-rating technology.
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TAIPEI  - Taiwan&#39;s High Court dismissed an opposition legal bid to annul the result of controversial March elections won narrowly by President Chen Shui-bian after a mysterious shooting.
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Nuclear trafficking charges against the owner of a South African engineering plant are dropped.
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Warner Music Group said Thursday that it had dropped its lawsuit against video sharing site imeem, as the two sides agreed on a revenue sharing deal.
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Business: 9 December 2004, Thursday. The Supreme Administrative Prosecution has retracted its protest against the ruling of the state telecommunications watchdog there has been no state support in the awarding ...
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A Taiwan-funded company has slashed a  libel claim against two Shanghai journalists, who said workers  at a plant making iPods were mistreated, from 30 million yuan  ($3.77 million) to just 1 yuan, Xinhua news agency said on  Thursday.
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LOS ANGELES  - A federal court judge has dismissed a copyright infringement lawsuit against The Walt Disney Co. concerning its movie "Sweet Home Alabama"
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The trial of a Chinese researcher for The New York Times who is accused of fraud and leaking state secrets ended Friday after one day, his lawyer said.
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(InfoWorld) - The contract manufacturer of the iPod music player has filed lawsuits against two Chinese journalists who wrote articles aboutÂ working conditions at factoriesÂ where iPods are made, according to Chinese press reports. Hongfujin Precision Industry Co. is suing the journalists from the Shanghai-based China Business News for defamation, according to the English-language Web site of the official People's Daily newspaper. Hongfujin, which is a subsidiary of Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry's Foxconn Technology Group, is seeking 30 million renminbi ($3.77 million) in damages, People's Daily reported. The journalists are accused of defaming Hongfujin during their coverage of Apple Computer's investigation into working conditions at factories that make its iPod Nano music player. The conditions were first covered in June in a report by the British "Mail on Sunday" newspaper, which accused Apple and its contractor of exploiting workers at the factory in southern China. Chinese media, including Chinese Business News, also picked up and investigated the claims. Earlier this month, Apple released the results of its internal investigation, saying itÂ found few violationsÂ at the iPod Nano manufacturing facility. The Shenzhen Intermediate Court, which accepted the case, froze the assets of the two reporters, Weng Bao and Wang You. On Tuesday, journalist rights group Reporters Without Borders published an open letter to Apple Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs, calling on Jobs and Apple to pressure Foxconn to drop the suit. Representatives from Foxconn did not respond to requests for comment at the time of publication. Â
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Taiwan's High Court rejected a second lawsuit filed by the opposition Nationalist Party to nullify President Chen Shui-bian's March re-election victory, a judge said on Thursday.
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American Blinds & Wallpaper Factory Inc. has dropped trademark infringement lawsuit against Google after a four-year fight.
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Zsa Zsa Gabor's lawsuit against her daughter over family money has been dismissed.
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A motorist who struck and killed a 17-year-old cyclist in northern Spain Â and then sued the boy's parents over the damage to his Audi Â has dropped the lawsuit, the family said Wednesday.
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BEIJING, Dec. 1 -- The three-year fraud sentence of a Beijing-based researcher for the New York Times was upheld by Beijing's High Court on Friday, the only remaining charge against him after a more serious accusation of leaking state secrets was dismissed in August.
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A Beijing court has rejected&#160;Yahoo China&#39;s appeal&#160;against a fine of 210,000 yuan ($28,400) for infringing a 2006 copyright law.The suit, filed in January by the 11 members of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), accused Yahoo China of infringing copyright by deep linking, through its music search engine, to MP3 files distributed by third party Web sites without the copyright holders&#39; permission.The Beijing No. 2 Intermediate People&#39;s Court&#160;found Yahoo China guilty&#160;on April 24, imposing the 210,000 yuan fine -- far less than the 5.5 million yuan sought by IFPI -- and&#160;Yahoo China promptly appealed. The Beijing Higher People&#39;s Court rejected that appeal on Thursday.Yahoo China is wholly owned by Chinese company Alibaba.com, in which Yahoo owns a 44 percent stake. The offending music search engine allowed visitors to Yahoo China&#39;s site to find and play copyright music tracks without leaving the Yahoo site, according to the IFPI.IFPI blames such sites for what it says is an abnormally low level of music sales in China: around $76 million in 2006, representing less than one percent of global recorded music sales, according to the group. It estimates that 99 percent of music downloads in China infringe copyright.A separate suit filed by IFPI against Chinese search engine Baidu.com in September 2005 resulted in an acquittal for Baidu. IFPI appealed the ruling, but its appeal too was rejected Thursday, leaving Baidu in the clear, said IFPI spokesman Alex Jacob.&quot;The Baidu case was judged on the old copyright law, so our appeal was rejected,&quot; Jacob said.
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In a low-key end to a groundbreaking case that extended the reach of Australia's libel laws to the world, Dow Jones &amp; Co. has settled a defamation lawsuit launched against it by an Australian mining magnate.