Google Faces Raft Of Lawsuits From Microsoft, Publishers In Germany

The first phase of the Google-Oracle trial has come to a close, with the jury retiring to weigh up the evidence on whether Google has trampled on Oracle's toes in terms of copyright. The trial, which is set to run over this month...

Google is currently facing copyright infringements lawsuits for Java's programming language used in Android. Oracle is strong on its position and accuses Google of stealing class libraries, which are subject to...

YouTube lost its legal fight in Germany on Friday, after the Hamburg regional court ruled that the video-sharing service was responsible for copyright-infringed content posted on the site. Ruling in favour of German performing...

The lawsuit filed by Oracle. against Google is not going to trial until next year, according to a verdict announced by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Oracle dragged the Mountain View based...

Cloud based music streaming services like MP3Tunes do not violate the copyright laws designed to protect the interests of musicians and record labels, says a US federal court judge’s ruling.The lawsuit which was filed by...

Google's purchase of Motorola Mobility might give the company a raft of patents which it can use to defend Android from the likes of Apple and Microsoft, but the company's failure to obey the terms of the GPLv2 could leave the...

Much to the disappointment of hundreds of thousands of users who rooted their Android phones, Google has announced that their new movie rental services won’t be available to rooted devices.According to the company, this...

Copyright holders and campaigners for reform today gave a cautious welcome to the Hargreaves review of UK intellectual property law, published today - but both sides point to a difficult path before any of the legal changes...

Plans to introduce a law that will force internet service providers (ISPs) to block access to websites accused of hosting copyright-infringing content have been condemned by ISPs, publishers, consumer groups, user rights groups...

Google has entered the market for legal information with a free service that allows users to search a database of US laws and court rulings. The move could endanger long-established legal publishers such as Westlaw and...

A report published by the Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property (SABIP) posits that around seven million UK citizens download illegal content worth as much as £120 billion a year. This sum, of course, as MCV UK...

Academics have analysed the requests received by Google for copyrighted material to be removed from the internet and found that almost a third of requests may be unwarranted and over half of link removal demands came from...

Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin were involved in the decision, according to a Google executive. Protesters had said that the link was a legal requirement, but Google had said that it was not prepared to add more words...

Eight new groups of rights holders have joined the legal action against Google-owned video sharing website YouTube. Amongst the eight is Robert Tur, the cameraman who has dropped his existing suit against YouTube to join the...

Social networking market leader MySpace will use software to monitor videos posted to the site in a bid to block unauthorised use of copyrighted content. The company will use technology to analyse videos' audio tracks to identify...