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1: Digital Economy Bill approved by House of Lords
First off today, the House of Lords in the UK has approved the Digital Economy Bill, paving the way for a “three strikes” system in the country and also for the blocking of Web sites [...]

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1: Case against Avatar dismissed
First off today, Zhou Shaomou, an amateur science fiction author from China, had a lawsuit of his against James Cameron dismissed. The author accused Cameron of plagiarizing his hit movie Avatar from his 1997 work “The Legend of the [...]

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1: RealNetworks and Movie Studios Settle Lawsuit Over DVD Copying
First off today, in a rather stunning turn of events, Real Networks has settled its case with the various movie studios that sued it over its RealDVD product. Under the settlement, Real will pay [...]

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1: Smaller Damages Sought in Music Case
First off today Joel Tenenbaum, who was found liable for $675,000 in damages for sharing music files online, was the subject of a hearing where his attorney, Charles Nesson, asked a sympathetic judge to reduce the damages. [...]

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1: No Decrease in Illegal Downloading, says BPI
First off today, A survey conducted for the British Phonographic Industry reports that, in the UK, illegal file sharing is on the rise, even as more legal downloading alternatives come online.
The survey found that, while file [...]

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1: Fine for Google Over French Books
First off today, Google has suffered a setback with its Google Book Search project as a court in France has ordered Google to pay 300,000 euros (approx $430,000) to French publisher La Martiniere for the digitization of [...]

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1: Leaked UK government Plan to Create “Pirate Finder General” with Power to Appoint Militias, Create Laws
First off today, Cory Doctorow is reporting on a leak he received from a previously reliable source within the UK government about upcoming proposed changes to the [...]

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1: UK Government Lays Out Digital Plans
First off today, in her annual Queen’s Speech, Queen Elizabeth II outlined her governments plans for the new year as it relates tot he digital world.
In those plans is included a controversial proposal that will attempt to [...]

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1: AP to Obama ‘Hope’ Artist’s Lawyers: We’d Like You to Stick Around
First off today, as discussed earlier this week, the Shepard Fairey lawsuit took a strange turn when Fairey admitted he misled the Associated Press, who is suing him, and the court [...]

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1: Obama Copyright Dispute Takes Strange Turn
First off today, the Shepard Fairey case has taken a surprising turn. The case, which centers around the artist’s “Hope” poster of Barack Obama, which was well-known and highly visible as an unofficial campaign poster during the [...]