America's love affair with patent litigation has moved to another level, with a well-known patent expert arguing movies and movie scripts should be patentable.
In a move that's alarming technology firms, the U.S. Copyright Office is about to endorse new legislation that would outlaw peer-to-peer networks and possibly some consumer electronics devices that could be used for copyright piracy.
Silicon Valley executives are jumping into the debate between Hollywood and technology companies about how to shape the rules governing consumers' rights to reproduce digital movies and music.
StreamCast Networks, the creator of the popular Morpheus file-trading software, is set to unveil a plan that it hopes will help it become a more legitimate means of music distribution.
When the Department of Justice hauled Microsoft into court on antitrust charges in 1998, Silicon Valley was awash in schadenfreude.
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