Unknown da Vinci painting unveiled via fingerprinting. Value increases from $19,000 (purchase price) to above $160 million. From CNN. Record labels suffering from power of technology, artists, and consumers seek a new business model. From MediaShift (PBS). Yoko Ono promotes Creative Commons licensing with remix contest. From boingboing. Contest here. Micro-brewer sued for Trademark infringement [...]

Stan Lee approves of the recent Disney-Marvel deal as a major coup. From MSNBC. YouTube seeks to license major movies for streaming video rental via internet: From AP. The history of corporate art collections and their role in future exhibitions. From The New York Times.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation recently posted an article questioning whether the Burning Man copyright and trademark policies are overly restrictive. We do empathize with BMO’s desire to preserve the festival’s noncommercial character and to protect the privacy interests of ticket-holders. But by granting itself ownership of your creative works and forbidding fair uses of its [...]

After an order to remove it from US servers downed the site for hours, the Pirate Bay has found itself a new offshore residence. From the site’s recent blog post on the matter, Even though large parts of Internets and many old and famous trackers have fallen or may fall into the grip of the [...]

Last year, Woody Allen sued American Apparel, seeking $10 Million in damages for the company’s unauthorized use of his image in an Advertising Campaign. Allen claimed that two billboards, featuring a still frame from the movie Annie Hall stating “the High Rabbi” in Yiddish, “calculatingly took my name, my likeness, and image and used them [...]

RealNetworks filed an antitrust suit against various Hollywood Studios and the DVD Copy Control Association (DVD CCA) claiming that the Studios and DVD CCA are preventing companies from distributing software for legal DVD copying. More here from InformationWeek. The company argues that consumers are able to freely copy their previously purchased DVDs under the ambit [...]