Legal

10-Q Watch: Liberty Media Squeaked Appeal Of Pro-Diller Ruling In Under Wire - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Sun 11 May 2008 09:13 PM PST

Buried in the 10-Q discussion of legal proceedings, confirmation from Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA) that it filed an appeal with Delaware Chancery Court May 7 over the March 28 ruling…

Facebook Issues Improved Privacy, Obscenity Protections; Joins MySpace On Internet Safety Task Force - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 08 May 2008 10:31 AM PST

Facebook makes a PR push on the privacy and safety front today, instituting an array of enhanced privacy safeguards and obscenity blockers as part of an agreement with 49 state…

10-Q Watch: IAC: Liberty Appeal Deadline Today; Ticketmaster Acquisitions; New IAC Losses - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 07 May 2008 03:37 PM PST

It looks like the clock has run out on Liberty if it wants to appeal the ruling it lost to IAC: according to IAC’s (NSDQ: IACI) just-filed 10-q, the appeal…

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Sprint-Clearwire: Google’s Role Too Big? Pay-For-Access Deal Raises Net Neutrality-Like Concerns - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 07 May 2008 08:45 AM PST

Over the last year, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has made its presence known in the wireless industry, not for its applications, but instead, for its position on open access. The internet…

Microsoft’s Regulatory Push: A Defense Against Google Or An Attempt To Ease Anti-Trust Scrutiny? - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 05 May 2008 06:45 PM PST

While much of the online ad industry clings to the hope that the Federal Trade Commission and state legislatures will continue to trust the industry to “self-police” when it comes…

Repurchase Or Buy: eBay Releases Details of Its Lawsuit Against Craigslist - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 30 Apr 2008 11:00 PM PST

eBay (NSDQ: EBAY), which filed a lawsuit against Craigslist earlier this month, has made public the details of the lawsuit (though with some parts censored out), and has more details…

Federal Court Rules AOL, Yahoo, Real Must Pay ASCAP Music Licensing Fees; Could Run $100 Million - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 30 Apr 2008 05:37 PM PST

ASCAP is ballyhooing a federal court ruling today that AOL (NYSE: TWX), Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) must pay higher licensing fees for streaming songs by its 320,000-plus…

Google Board Member Ann Mather In Backdating Action - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 28 Apr 2008 02:53 PM PST

Google board member Ann Mather has been eyed on backdating charges stemming from her tenure as CFO of Pixar, according to a filing put out by Google (NSDQ: GOOG). Mather…

Senate Commitee Rejects FCC Cross-Ownership Relaxation - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 24 Apr 2008 12:47 PM PST

Just as Rupert Murdoch’s play for Newsday brings media ownership regulations into the fore, a Senate panel has voted to reject recent moves by the FCC to relax cross-ownership rules.…

ZVUE Gets Delisting Notice From NASDAQ - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 24 Apr 2008 11:12 AM PST

ZVUE (fka Handheld Entertainment) has received a delisting warning from the NASDAQ, as its shares have traded sub-$1.00 for 30 days. The parent company of eBaumsworld, and such sites as…

Updated: Justice Department Investigating Yahoo-Google Ad Test; Companies Say They Volunteered Info - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 23 Apr 2008 12:48 PM PST

The U.S. Department of Justice is looking at the Google-Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) two-week ad test, according to Reuters. The wire service says it has been told by a source that…

Craigslist Fires Back: Of Tainted Love & Ulterior Motives - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 22 Apr 2008 10:08 PM PST

Craigslist has fired back in a late night blog post, following eBay’s (NSDQ: EBAY) lawsuit announcement this afternoon: “Coming from a shareholder that viewsCraigslist as a prime competitor, filing suit…

eBay Finally Loses Cool: Sues Craigslist Over “Stake Dilution” - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 22 Apr 2008 01:39 PM PST

eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) and Craigslist, never the happy brethren, have barely tolerated each other over the years since the former bought a stake in the online classifieds phenom in 2004.…

Clear Channel Buyout: Banks Offer Binding Arbitration; PE Buyers Reject - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 22 Apr 2008 10:46 AM PST

The acquisition of Clear Channel (NYSE: CCU) by two private equity firms, Thomas H. Lee and Bain Capital Partners, continues to play out in the courts. The key issue, as…

FCC Hearing on Broadband Practices: Free, Regulation, and the Bible - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 17 Apr 2008 07:47 PM PST

FCC’s much anticipated hearing on broadband access and management practices happened today, and a range of voices were heard at the hearing. At stake, according to the speakers: copyrights, Internet…

FCC Duped By Google In Auction: Republicans - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 17 Apr 2008 10:16 AM PST

There’s quite a bit being written on the remarks of some Republican senators that Google (NSDQ: GOOG) “gamed” the 700 MHz auction, and “duped” the FCC...Bloomberg has the quotes. Their…

Vivendi Games-Activision Merger Approved By EC; Claims Of ‘Unfair’ Music Competition Brushed Aside - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 16 Apr 2008 08:33 AM PST

The European Commission has cleared the $18.9 billion merger of Activision (NSDQ: ATVI) and Vivendi’s (EPA: VIV) games unit on several anti-trust grounds. The EC began a routine investigation in…

UK Music Biz Would Rather Tax iPods Than Legitimize Format Shifting - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 15 Apr 2008 08:26 AM PST

The British record industry has challenged a UK government proposal that would legalize “format shifting” from CD to gadgets like iPods - and instead demanded portable music device makers pay…

Expected Flood Of Opinion Ends With A Trickle: Proposed FTC Behavioral Rules Comment Period Closes - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Fri 11 Apr 2008 05:16 PM PST

By the time the Federal Trade Commission stopped accepting public comments on its proposed behavioral targeting rules Friday afternoon, officials had only 31 submissions displayed on its website. Hardly the…

TiVo Gets Another Patent Win; DISH Network To Take It To Supreme Court - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Fri 11 Apr 2008 02:20 PM PST

TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) has won another round… The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C has denied EchoStar (NSDQ: DISH) a rehearing of its loss to…

EU Parliament Warns Against ISP Monitoring In Music Piracy Fight - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 11 Apr 2008 02:48 AM PST

This could put the cat amongst the pigeons. European Parliament members have voted in favour of outlawing the kind of ISP disconnection policy the French government introduced to fight illegal…

Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Others Unite To Fight NYS Ad Targeting Bill; FTC Ending Comments On Regs - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 09 Apr 2008 03:47 PM PST

Google (NSDQ: GOOG), Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), AOL (NYSE: TWX), Facebook, Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) and others have banded together to fight a proposed bill in the New York State Legislature that…

Wal-Mart Going Hardline on DRM-Free Online Music Store; SonyBMG and WMG Holdouts - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 08 Apr 2008 10:41 PM PST

Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT), whose online music efforts haven’t exactly caught fire among consumers, is now trying a hardline stance on MP3 downloads, ditching Windows DRM-laden downloads that it used to…

Google Et Al Must Try Harder On Privacy, EU Says - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 08 Apr 2008 03:24 AM PST

Europe’s Article 29 Working Party on data privacy, which advises the European Commission executive, has concluded search engines should reduce the time for which they store users’ records to six…

Updated: Weinstein ‘Aufs’ NBCU; Takes Bravo Franchise Show ‘Project Runway’ To Lifetime - 1 Comment
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 07 Apr 2008 12:49 PM PST

Project Runway, the competition-reality show that launched a genre on Bravo, is flipping houses—unless NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) gets a court to back up its claim to the show. The…