Google Given the Green Light to Publish Copyrighted Books

A $125million settlement means consumers will soon be able to read in-copyright books online.In what has been hailed as the start of the digital reading revolution, Google have been given the go-ahead to make...

Google Given the Green Light to Publish Copyrighted Books

A $125million settlement means consumers will soon be able to read in-copyright books online.In what has been hailed as the start of the digital reading revolution, Google have been given the go-ahead to make...

Bit Torrent Reversed 'Stranglehold' on Distribution - Former BT President

Ashwin Navin, the former yahoo employee who co-founded BitTorrent Inc., left the company after four years. He's staying on the Board, but is moving onto a new project with Youtube's Steve Chen, amongst others. While...

Hall & Oates Sue Over 'Maneater' Copyright

Hall & Oates ain't lettin' nobody mess with "Maneater". That's why the soft rock duo are filing a lawsuit over an alleged breach of their copyright that occurred in 2006.  And who was it that did the alleged...

MySpace and MTV Bring Ads to Piracy

Why go after the pirates directly when you can advertise on their copyright infringements?Instead of asking users to take down copyrighted content that's been posted to MySpace, MTV is proposing to overlay ads on...

Fixing DMCA takedown problems through shaming, legal reform

Big media have been using DMCA to force YouTube to take down protected speech, affecting individual's protected speech and the public's right to know. McCain has objected to this practice, which has affected both campaigns, and here Arstechnica comments on open letters just...

Indian boxers strike gold at Youth CommonWealth Games

"Cousin of Vijender Singh, Balwinder Beniwal, lived up to expectations as Indian boxers shone in the rings with three gold and one silver in the third Commonwealth Youth Games on Friday at Pune. It was Nanao Singh Thokchom of Army Sports Institute who opened the account...

Ganguly completed 7000 test runs

"Sourav Ganguly reached a personal landmark on Friday when he became the fourth Indian batsman to cross 7,000 runs during the first day’s play of the second cricket Test against Australia at the Punjab Cricket Association (PCA) stadium here. Ganguly’s feat came just an...

Radiohead Lead Featured Artists Coalition Seeking Music Rights

It's no surprise that Radiohead would be leading the charge on this one. Post-In Rainbows, bands are increasingly concerned with maintaining their rights in a digital music climate that is pushing them to simply give...

Paes-Dlouhy in Japan Open semis

"The top seeded pair of Leander Paes and Lukas Dlouhy won their sixth match on the trot to advance to the semi-finals of the $869000 Japan Open in Tokyo on Friday. The Indo-Czech pair overcame a late challenge from Philipp Petzschner of Germany and Alexander Peya of Austria...

Sachin will play Australia series

"The Board of Control for Cricket in India has clarified that Sachin Tendulkar will be available for the India-Australia Test series. Tendulkar injured his elbow during the third and final Test in Sri Lanka last...

Prince

Prince drawings eye made and the photos of him eye found from his fan sites and the internet. Eye remember that during the PFUNK (Prince Fans Untited) occurrance, some of my drawings were erased and labeled as...

Rest of India win Irani Trophy 2008

"Anil Kumble and Harbhajan Singh ran through Delhi’s batting order and completed a 187-run win for Rest of India in the Irani Cup match in Vadodara. Delhi resumed on 113 for 3 but the collapse started in the second over of the day when Aakash Chopra was bowled by Zaheer...

Irani Trophy 2008 Day Three

"The Anil Kumble-led Rest of India set Delhi a stiff target of 378 on a fast-wearing track and then Zaheer Khan strike early double blow including the prized scalp of Virender Sehwag (8) to take the sting out of Delhi’s riposte, reducing them to 113 for three. Gambhir found...

India’s tour of Pakistan schedule declared

"India will go ahead with their tour of Pakistan early next year despite last weekend’s bomb blast at the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad. India will arrive on January 4, and will play three Tests, five ODIs and a Twenty20 international, as planned in the original official...

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