Friend: Racy pix not 'Idol' contestant
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A close friend of "American Idol" semi-finalist Antonella Barba says that the aspiring singer is not the subject of some graphically sexual pictures purported to be of her that were posted on the Internet last week.
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This year's winner was neither the best singer nor the best performer. But Idol voters have always loved those who combine the two
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When Jason Biggs or Brooke Shields or Jenna Elfman makes a hilarious video and wants to post it online, he or she doesn't go to YouTube, oh no. What celebrity wants his or her work bumping up against plebeian videos of kitty antics, lame bands and sad Claymation? They go to fellow Hollywooder Wil...
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She is sweet-looking and no more than 11 years old. She does not seem to realize there is a camera snapping her photo as she reaches inside the bottom of her bathing suit. And she surely doesn't know that her picture will be traded like a baseball card over the Internet by hundreds, if not...
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LOS ANGELES - Lonelygirl15 speaks!  And she says she's amazed at her newfound fame. "I'm trying to deal with it right now," she told The Associated Press in  a phone interview Thursday. "I'm not used to this much attention.
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Reader Reshmi Menon sends us a picture.
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There's been a mostly fantastic discussion about fair use in this neighborhood for the last few days.  It started when a photograph of Lane Hartwell's was used in a video spoof of the Billy Joel song "We Didn't Start the Fire."  The first I heard of this was in a Twitter post of hers where she said she was turning off access to her entire Flickr collection because this picture was used without permission. A series of communications with the people who did the video resulted in the video being taken down. Later Mike Arrington, who is a lawyer, wrote a piece saying she didn't have right on her side, and that the video's use of her picture was probably fair use. I found Mike's piece compelling. Others took offense. It thought it was a useful part of the discussion. I understand Ms Hartwell's point of view. I hate it when people copy a whole post of mine and paste it into theirs. But then I grab bits of images and put them on my blog and people rarely complain. The blogosphere is built on being loose about copyright and fair use.  I'm doing a deal with a content company and all these issues are coming up. We haven't been able to write a contract that covers all the things they want covered and make it possible for me to do what I need to do, and they want my product to work. It's a real mess we're in. Bloggers are supposed to be radicals when it comes to fair use and copyright, but that generalization doesn't work with many creative people. Hartwell's position in some ways is like the RIAA or MPAA, who bloggers often dismiss as clueless. How can we have it both ways? How can some defend her position yet not defend the entertainment industry? There's a lot to discuss here, and a lot of the discussion on the blogs has been informative and respectful. Not all of it, but to an unusually high degree.  So, I am interested in doing an in person "flash conference" on the subject of fair use in a few weeks. I'd say next week if it weren't Christmas. Most conferences are so boring. I want to do a conf on a hot subject when it's still hot in the blogosphere. This may be a good subject for such a quickly organized conference. What do you think of the flash conference idea for this??
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The cover of Sept. 11Âs issue of People magazine attributes an unnamed friendÂs quote of Jessica Simpson directly to the star, a tactic People has traditionally avoided.
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NEW YORK - No, Katie Couric didn't suddenly lose 20 pounds. The incoming &quot;CBS Evening News&quot; anchor appears significantly thinner in a network promotional magazine photo thanks to digital airbrushing.
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Britney Spears&#39; MySpace blog came to life Wednesday with an announcement that Gimme More is available on iTunes, along with a new promo shot of Spears. Former View host Rosie O&#39;Donnell takes on the daytime chatfest in a post challenging the show&#39;s claim that ratings are up without her. And Dancing With the Stars contestant Jane Seymour concedes that she had serious nerves for her debut foxtrot this week.
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Just how real is The Hills? According to model Gavin Beasleyâyou may remember him as Lauren Conradâs date (and also the guy who made Brody Jenner jealous)â the MTV show isnât as real as the network or its stars would like you to believe.  Take...
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Arts & entertainment: Gossip singer becomes naked cover star after previous Cool List snub.
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It's not so much the photos that trouble Miss New Jersey; it's the words that someone put with them.
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Several of Mel Gibson's friends say he's a "different person" when he's drinking, but they do not believe he's anti-Semitic.
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The Friends star wants more kids but is unsure about another pregnancy.
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BFFs Britney Spears and Paris Hilton reportedly are no longer friends. They even ditched the same fashion show in New York just so they wouldn't cross paths. They were both scheduled to appear at the Heatherette show at Fashion Week and c...
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Credits were omitted last Sunday for three pictures with an article about the intensifying public scrutiny of celebrities. The photograph of Paris Hilton was from the Web site justjared.com; the one of Lindsay Lohan was from egotastic.com, and the picture of Britney Spears was from idontlikeyouthatway.com.