Two groups owning the licensing rights to German electronic musician Ulrich Schnauss’ Wherever You Are and A Strangely Isolated Place have sued the band and producers of Guns N’ Roses for copyright infringement. The alleged infringement, which occurs in the first 40 seconds of Guns N’ Roses Riad N’ The Bedouins from the band’s long [...]

Just a week after the September 25th opening arguments, the $2.58 million suit by Eight Mile Style LLC against Apple, Inc. has been quietly settled. Filed in 2004, the suit alleged that Apple, “distributed, publicly performed, [and] made available” various Eminem recordings which amounted to copyright infringement and false endorsement under the Lanham Act. More [...]

Apparently, the reggae band Groundnation finds that Fergie’s will.i.am produced single Voodoo Doll took a little too much inspiration from their 2000 release Waterfall. Substantially similar baselines? Groundnation’s Waterfall: Fergie’s Voodoo Doll: More here and here.

After filing a lawsuit claiming that the Grammy winning Viva La Vida infringed his 2004 track If I Could Fly, Joe Satriani has reached a settlement with Coldplay and the suit has been dismissed. Details of the agreement are lean, but it is rumored that financial reparations were made and Coldplay will not have to [...]

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.

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 [...]

From Reuters.

From Ars Technica.