Woman sues Facebook over Unwanted Text Messages

An Indiana woman has sued online social network Facebook, claiming the company is profiting when its users mistakenly send unwanted text messages to mobile phones whose numbers previously belonged to other consumers, the Associated Press reported.

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Man sues Yahoo and Google over their names

A man in has filed a lawsuit claiming Yahoo and Google stole their names from Tanzanian tribes. An he claims he is a member of both tribes.

The lawsuit states that Google was taken from the Gogo tribe, and Yahoo from the Yao tribe. The claim is asking for $10,000 be paid to each tribe member for the past three generations.

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Lulu sues Hulu

NBC, News Corp are being sued today by Lulu.com for trademark infringement after the announcement of the video site’s official name, “Hulu“. The claim was filed in a US District Court in Raleigh, NC.

Lulu alleges that Hulu (http://www.hulu.com), as a result of their recent name and Internet domain announcements, have intentionally attempted to create confusion in the marketplace. Hulu, in name, as a mark and in their business as a digital content distribution platform, represents a definitive encroachment.

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Man sues energy drink 'Boost Plus' for endless erection

A man from New York City has sued the maker of the energy drink Boost Plus.

According to court papers, the man said that he woke up the next morning "with an erection that would not subside" and sought treatment for the condition, which is called priapism.

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Sony pledges to go after PlayStation 3 Hackers

After hackers have cracked several versions of the PlayStation 3's firmware, Sony said it will aggressively pursue legal action against anyone discovered hacking the security software on its PlayStation 3 so it will play pirated games, GamesIndustry.biz reported.

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Defendant Awarded in RIAA File-Sharing Lawsuit

A woman sued by major record labels for copyright infringement on file-sharing networks has fought the charges, and been awarded attorneys' fees in the case.

Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) member label Capitol Records sued Debbie Foster for copyright infringement, but it was found that Foster's name was on an account used by her children, and the RIAA moved to have the case dismissed.

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School Principal Sued Students for MySpace Fake Profile

A high school principal sued four former students for a fake MySpace page they had created about him. Among his many alleged vices, the profile said the principal “smoked pot, kept beer at school and liked having sex with students"

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Viacom Sued by YouTube Parody Creators

Viacom, which recently filed a $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit against YouTube, was itself sued on Thursday by activist groups representing the producers of a parody video who say Viacom made an illegal request that the video be removed from YouTube.


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Viacom Sues Google, YouTube for 1 Billion Dollars

Viacom announced that it has filed a $1 billion federal copyright infringement lawsuit against video-sharing site YouTube and Google.

Viacom said that almost 160,000 unauthorized clips of its programming -- the company's holdings include Paramount Pictures, MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon -- have been viewed more than 1.5 billion times on YouTube.

"Their business model, which is based on building traffic and selling advertising off of unlicensed content, is clearly illegal and is in obvious conflict with copyright laws," Viacom said in a statement.

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Judge Dismisses Online Predator Suit Against MySpace

A federal judge has granted MySpace's motion to dismiss charges of negligence, fraud and negligent misrepresentation filed by the family of a girl from Austin, Texas who was assaulted by a man she met on the website, Reuters reported.

"To ensure that Web site operators and other interactive computer services would not be crippled by lawsuits arising out of third party communications, the Act provides interactive computer services with immunity," Judge wrote in his ruling.

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Google Accused of Aiding Movie Pirates

One more for Google...

Media firms including News Corp., Viacom, Sony, NBC Universal, Disney and Time Warner have accused Google of enabling piracy by selling keyword ads for sites that offered illegal movie downloads, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.

Google held negotiations with the media firms on Friday, and said that it would remove objectionable ads and refrain from selling ads to sites that sell pirated content.

P.S. Attention Google Salespeople: you enable software piracy by allowing sites to sell illigal software, please stop that as well.

Google Loses Newspaper Copyright Case

Google lost in a copyright case where Belgian newspapers accused Google of infringement for posting their news articles without permission.

The court also ordered Google to pay a fine of about $32,400 for each day it did not comply with the ruling, down from an earlier ruling in September that put the fine at $1.3 million a day.

Google said it will appeal the ruling.

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