Lawsuit against Coldplay over 'Viva La Vida' ends

Court records show guitarist Joe Satriani and Coldplay have reached an agreement that ends a copyright infringement lawsuit filed over the band's smash hit "Viva la Vida."

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Coldplay denies copying 'Viva La Vida'

Coldplay has denied in federal court that it copied parts of Joe Satriani's music for its hit song, "Viva La Vida."

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Guitarist sues over 2008 Coldplay hit

A noted guitarist has sued members of Coldplay, claiming the band's smash hit "Viva La Vida" copied parts of one of his songs.

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I'm really beginning to wonder if there should be sanctions on plaintiffs who sue the obviously wrong party. We write about so many cases, where people sue whoever has the deepest pockets, rather than those actually responsible, that it's clearly an abuse of the law.

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Live video streaming service Ustream is being sued by Square Ring, Inc, a boxing promotional company owned by professional boxer Roy Jones, Jr.

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I'll be the first to admit that the tech discussion is beyond me here. I can see that the headline is sensationalized - wow! Any techies out there know the reality of whats happening with MS Word because of this case?

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Tenenbaum is only the second American to be slapped with such a lawsuit. The first person to be sued by recording companies on these charges was a Minnesota woman in 2007. She was ordered to pay a whopping $1.92 million to the labels.

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It looks like AP is serious about tacking misuse of their reporting content. Tests showed them that there are millions of Internet abuses which violate their copyright terms, and the agency sees this new technology as a way to increase profits.

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In the second file-sharing copyright-infringement trial against Jammie Thomas-Rasset, a Minnesota jury ruled that the 32-year-old mother of four owes $1.92 million to the four major labels after downloading and sharing 24 songs, Billboard.biz reports.

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In the wake of a Swedish court's decision to imprison the operators of The Pirate Bay, a Web site that helps users search for BitTorrent files in the same way that Google (NSDQ: GOOG) handles general Internet file searches, Google wants to make sure everyone understands that it's …

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The four men connected with The Pirate Bay were found guilty of being accessories to copyright infringement by a Swedish court on Friday, delivering a symbolic victory in the entertainment industry's efforts to put a stop to the sharing of copyrighted material on the internet.

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The Guardian piece consists of U2's manager talking about how it would be great if private corporations -- phone companies and music labels -- got the power to take away your Internet connection on the basis of unproven accusations of copyright infringement.

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This week several scary stories surfaced about how the MPAA and RIAA are negotiating with ISPs on how to deal with copyright infringers.

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The Associated Press is on the wrong of a fair use argument again. It is actually going after artist Shepard Fairey for his iconic Obama poster, which it recently discovered was based on an AP news photograph by Mannie Garcia.

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the Hope posters that artist Shepard Fairey created during the presidential campaign use an image of Barack Obama that's based on a photograph taken for the Associated Press by then-freelancer Mannie Garcia. Now, the AP wants credit and compensation. More Articles

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MySpace has officially blocked access to embedded widgets from Project Playlist, one of the myriad start-ups that lets members create music playlists and share them with friends.

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The paper, (.pdf) posted this week, comes as the incoming 44th president will be charged with nominating the nation's first copyright czar as part of legislation lawmakers approved months ago.

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Rock guitarist Joe Satriani has sued British band Coldplay, accusing the Grammy-nominated stars of plagiarizing one of his songs.

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A new Firefox extension called Pirates of the Amazon lets users download movies, games, TV shows, and MP3s free of charge by cross referencing Amazon's product pages with torrent files from the Pirate Bay.

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A church and small businesses are just some of those accusing picture agencies of using heavy-handed tactics when pursuing payment.

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NPR reports that networks are complaining that YouTube campaign videos are hijacking their copyrighted footage.

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After seeings its videos repeatedly removed from YouTube, John McCain's campaign on Monday told the Google-owned video site that its copyright infringement policies are stringent to the point of stifling free speech, and that its lawyers need to revamp the way they evaluate copyr …

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John McCain's campaign says it respects copyright and has permission to use the music of various groups on the stump.

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U.S. lawmakers approved the creation of a cabinet-level position of copyright czar as part of sweeping intellectual property enforcement legislation that sailed through the Senate on Friday.

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A new ad from Sen. John McCain relates to Sen. Barack Obama's recent "lipstick on a pig," comment. The video also features a comment from CBS' Katie Couric.

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The author of this article has a valid reason to be upset when an article he did not write was falsely attributed to him. We, as citizen-journalist, should be very concerned about this, regardless of our ideology.

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The Black Crowes say that the verses for Gretchen Wilson's song Work Hard, Play Harder are too close to their own 1991 song Jealous Again, and are suing the country singer.

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Former Scientologist Peter Letterese is suing the Church of Scientology for harassment to the tune of $250 million. Court documents include actor Tom Cruise in the suit, referring to him as a right hand associate of church head David Miscavage.

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