It has been revealed recently that the copyright infringement lawsuit filed against Google Books over the digitisation of its books has been given class action status by a judge in California. The new status of the lawsuit means that disgruntled authors, who believe their copyright has been infringed by Google scanning their books online without …
The video service Netflix has revealed that last year, it paid out a total of £5.7 million to settle a class-action lawsuit from former customers who accused it of breaching their privacy. The complaint was brought by two residents of Virginia in the US, who alleged that Netflix had kept records of what they and …
The micro-blogging site Twitter is reportedly being sued by an Australian man who claims another user defamed him in a tweet. Joshua Meggitt was reportedly accused in a tweet by writer and TV personality Marieke Hardy of authoring a long-running blog which had published “ranting, hateful” articles about her. Her tweet in November 2011 read …
Just a week or so after it launched in the UK and Ireland, the online content streaming service Netflix is reportedly facing a new class action lawsuit from a number of its investors. A report in the Guardian claims that Netflix’s investors are suing because they believe the management of the company to have misled …
The film director James Cameron has reportedly been sued again over allegations that he stole the original idea for his hit 2009 movie Avatar. Bryant Moore, a science fiction screenwriter, is claiming that Cameron based Avatar on two of his own scripts, for projects entitled Descendants: The Pollination and Aquatica. He pointed out that there …
Motorola Mobility has triumphed in its lawsuit against Apple, after claiming that the company had failed to license one of its wireless intellectual properties. A court in Germany has now ruled in the Android smartphone maker’s favour. The senior vice-president of Motorola Mobility, Scott Offer, welcomed the ruling, saying: “We will continue to take all …
Britain’s largest bank, HSBC, has been fined a total of £10.5 million by the Financial Services Authority over investment bond advice it gave to more than 2,000 elderly customers. This is the largest penalty ever imposed by the City regulator for organisations breaching its rules. Another organisation which may need to rely on its professional …
The ticket-selling company Ticketmaster has reportedly agreed a settlement in a class action lawsuit over processing fees for tickets bought over the phone and online. Customers who bought tickets from the website between October 1999 and October 2011 were invited to participate in the class-action suit, which alleged that Ticketmaster had “wrongfully collected” processing fees …
The publishing group responsible for the Sunday Mirror has reportedly failed to overturn a breach of privacy ruling involving the French actor Olivier Martinez. Martinez sued Mirror Group Newspapers in the French courts back in 2008 after it published an online article relating to the actor’s relationship with Australian pop singer Kylie Minogue, from whom …