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RIAA Lawsuits Not Yielding Artist Payments Yet

Despite collecting millions in settlements with online music services accused of enabling music piracy, the RIAA's artists may not be seeing the paydays they imagined.

Yahoo Settles Chinese Lawsuits

Yahoo has settled the lawsuit brought forth by two Chinese political prisoners and their families. Though the terms of the settlement were not disclosed, Yahoo has agreed to pay their legal fees.

BlogWorld: Staying Away From Lawsuits

Blogging can be all fun and games, and a great thing about it is that no one’s likely to get hurt.  Unfortunately, people are likely to be sued, and at the BlogWorld & New Media Expo, attorney Brett Trout discussed that subject.

Facebook Sued Over Text Messages

Online social networking site Facebook is being sued by an Indiana woman who says the site profited from its members sending unauthorized text messages to cell phone users whose numbers used to belong to other customers.

Potential Typosquatting Lawsuits for Advertisers

Avi Wilensky, a friend of mine, recently got a cease and desist letter from Realogy Corporation because his Google broad match ads for Mark David NY ended up on a dirty Google syndication partner site.

New Editor at Valleywag

So Business 2.0 magazine loses another writer/blogger, and Valleywag loses Nick Denton (again). Owen Thomas has jumped from his B2.0 blog duties to the editorship of the "Wag".

IBM, Amazon Chill On Patent Fight

Call it a TKO win for IBM, as years of jabbing over a variety of patents held by IBM and disputed by Amazon have ended with Amazon agreeing to pay licensing fees for them.

Blinkx To Go Public

The idea of a “Google killer” has lost most of its meaning - challenger after challenger came along, assumed that title, and proceeded to fail miserably.  Google Video may face a real threat in the form of Blinkx, however - the Autonomy corporation has announced plans to demerge that video search engine.

Courts Becoming Busy With Blog Lawsuits

March was a busy month for lawsuits involving bloggers and webmasters. The court system taking them to task for defamatory statements, with one case becoming the first to go to trial and result in a liability verdict. A legal system once tentative about taking on digital cases is braving the waters with more frequency. Most of the cases we've reported on have involved the statements of anonymous commentators, liability for which webmasters and bloggers have been repeatedly exonerated (or are expected to be). But these are different.

SEO & Accessibility Prevent Lawsuits, Increase Visibility

The WorldWide Web Consortium (W3C), in May 0f 1999, issued Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, which outlined methods of making web content easily accessible to the visually and physically impaired. In those guidelines the W3C stated plainly,