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 [...]

Google announced Thursday its partnership with On Demand, the maker of the Espresso Book Machine. The machine is capable of printing and binding an entire book in about 5 minutes, and retails for more than $75,000. More here.

Forty years after his death in 1969, the fate of Jack Kerouac’s estate may finally be settled.  With an apparent worth of $91.00 when he died, the value ha since  swelled to around $20 million. However, it was the concern of many, including his daughter, Jan. Kerouac left the body of his estate to his [...]

Apparently agreeing with recent criticism of the deal, the Department of Justice  urged a federal court on Friday to reject Google’s disputed settlement with book authors and publishers. The class action settlement in The Authors Guild Inc. et al. v. Google Inc. as proposed, could potentially lead to copyright infringements. As such, the Department, proposed [...]

A group of authors and publishers, represented by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and the Samuelson Law, Technology, and Public Policy Clinic at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Samuelson clinic), filed an objection last week to the proposed Google Book Search lawsuit settlement. The coalition of [...]

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.

In  written testimony given last week, United States Register of Copyrights Marybeth Peters, stated her concern that the proposed Google Book settlement would, “encroach on responsibility for copyright policy that traditionally has been the domain of Congress.” In response, Peter Drummond, Google senior vice president of corporate development and chief legal officer, defended the settlement, [...]

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 [...]