RIAA sends new wave of letters (Massachusetts Daily Collegian)
On behalf of the major record companies, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) last week sent a fourth wave of 402 pre-litigation settlement letters to 13 universities....more...Spider-Man 3 Swings From the Top of the Box Office Charts to the Top of Gottaplay's Game Rental Charts (SYS-CON Media)
Gottaplay Interactive, Inc. (OTCBB: GTAP),the only full-service destination site for videogamers, today announcedthat the highly anticipated video game Spider-Man 3 has shot to the top ofits charts as the number one most requested game. The new game offersplayers the unprecedented freedom to explore Manhattan as the new, darkercharacter of Black-Suited Spider-Man. The single-player action game, ......more... Spider-Man 3 Swings From the Top of the Box Office Charts to the Top of Gottaplay's Game Rental Charts (Market Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
Gottaplay Interactive, Inc., the only full-service destination site for videogamers, today announced that the highly anticipated video game Spider-Man 3 has shot to the top of its charts as the number one most requested game. The new game offers players the unprecedented freedom to explore Manhattan as the new, darker character of Black-Suited Spider-Man. The single-player action game, which ......more... Hank Risan: Art and Invention Stream Ripped Away (HuffingtonPost)
There is a war going on in digital media, an awkward power struggle between the technology giants (Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo, etc.) and the RIAA, over the passing of the Internet Radio Equality Act. The webcasters seek Congressional relief from absurdly high royalty rates imposed by the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) for transmitting copyrighted content that is vulnerable to stream ripping. ......more... New Wave of RIAA Pre-Lawsuit Letters Targets Music Theft on 13 Campuses (Recording Industry Association of America)
WASHINGTON ? On behalf of the major record companies, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) today sent a fourth wave of 402 pre-litigation settlement letters to 13 universities....more... Intellectual Property (Mondaq)
Recent reports from the Motion Picture Association of America ("MPAA") calculate total losses to the studios from piracy at around $6 billion annually and total losses to the global motion picture industry (including domestic and foreign producers, distributors, theaters, video stores and pay-per-view operators) at $18.2 billion....more... IPRED2 passes, with tweaks to protect personal copying (The Register)
File sharers in the clear? The European Parliament voted yesterday to pass legislation that could still see people copying music or movies for their own personal use stand in the dock alongside hard-nosed counterfeiters and commercial copyright blaggers.? ...more... Jack Valenti dies, aged 85 (p2pnet.net)
Hollywood's Main Man...more... Viyya Free Edition Receives 5 Stars Award Ratings From Download Sites (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
ROSELAND, N.J.----Viyya Technologies, Inc., , developer and marketer of information management systems, announced today that its Viyya Free Edition PC web-based automated search, storage, and retrieval application, took top honors and won critical acclaim from leading download sites, as determined by user feedback and the sites' own technical testing and editorial reviews....more... |