Elaine Scott sues Scribd for copyright infringement
While Google faces massive protests for their book indexing program… Scribd is facing legal issues of their own.
American author Elaine Scott has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Scribd.
Scott claims in his lawsuit that Scribd “shamelessly profits from the stolen copyrighted works of innumerable authors”.
Scribd claims [...]

Mininova ordered to clean up all pirated content from its site
Mininova is one of the most popular torrent search engines on the web.
The service has just lost a major lawsuit in the Utrecht District Court.
The court has ordered the service to remove all pirated media content from the network within a period of [...]

AOL files a lawsuit against Advertise.com
AOL might be struggling to survive in the online media industry but they are still indulging in frivolous lawsuits.
The company has now sued Advertise.com claiming that the service is similar in concept and name to their own Advertising.com.
The lawsuit filed by AOL against Advertise.com claims: “Advertise.com recently commenced [...]

RapidShare fined for copyright infringement in Germany
German courts have found RapidShare guilty of copyright infringement.
The web based file sharing service has been fined $34 Million. The money goes to GEMA which is the German body responsible for collecting copyright-related fees for distribution to member artists.
GEMA said in a statement about this victory: “The judgment [...]