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13 Aug 7:00 pm
RealNetworks, Inc. v. DVD Copy Control Association, Inc., 08-04548 MHP (N.D. Cal. 2009) The story RealNetworks distributed the software RealDVD which, among
... Court rejected the argument, citing 321 Studios v. Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios, Inc., 307 F. Supp.2d 1085, 1095 (N.D. Cal. 2004) ( ... a rule that an injunction automatically
follows a determination that a copyright has been infringed.") The Court in RealNetworks further presumed irreperable harm upon finding that DVD Copy Control was likely to ...
1 May, 2008 5:07 am
... the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) by AOL (Time Warner Inc., NYSE: TWX), RealNetworks Inc. (Nasdaq: RNWK) and Yahoo! Inc.
(Nasdaq: YHOO) for their online performance of musical works. The decision ... as July 1, 2002, and continuing through December 31, 2009, for the performance of musical works in the
ASCAP repertory by AOL, RealNetworks and Yahoo! Based on the formula established by the Court, the total payments to be made to ASCAP and its membership by these three ...
24 Apr 10:19 am
... over the issue will take place in federal court in San Francisco, where an army of lawyers representing Hollywood will argue that RealNetworks Inc.'s DVD "ripper" is
an illegal digital piracy tool. The company, in turn, will say the $29. ... the same technological upheaval roiling Hollywood that forever changed the face of the music business. The
movie studios fear that if RealNetworks is allowed to sell its RealDVD software, consumers will quickly lose interest in paying retail for DVDs that can be ...
2 Aug, 2007 3:10 pm
Digital media company RealNetworks Inc. said it won a patent infringement lawsuit filed against it by Friskit Inc., under which Friskit sought $70 million in
damages. The company said a judge in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California agreed with RealNetworks' assertion that it did not violate four of Friskit's
patents. Read the article: Forbes
21 Aug, 2007 7:35 pm
... also is closely following this story about how MTV Networks announced Tuesday that it is merging its online digital-music offerings into a joint venture with RealNetworks
Inc., the company behind the Rhapsody subscription digital-music service. Verizon Wireless, a venture of Verizon Communications Inc. and Vodafone Group PLC, has signed on
to supply mobile distribution for the joint venture's content. That could provide additional leverage ...
1 Aug, 2007 7:30 am
Kayla Kooyman of SHIFT Communications, LLC wrote to me this morning with the following news: This morning, digital entertainment company RealNetworks announced it has won a
complete victory in a long-running patent infringement suit with San Francisco-based company Friskit, which had sought ... troll" entity (in 2006, Real won a complete victory after a
jury trial in a suit brought against it by Ethos Technologies, Inc., which had sought damages of over $200M). The press release is available here.
30 Aug 9:18 pm
... related efficient management of content delivery and network bandwidth for streaming over the Internet.'" This led the court to grant RealNetworks' motion for summary
judgment in favor of a finding of no likelihood of confusion. "With the exception of the "similarity of marks" factor (which is ... judgment that there is no likelihood of confusion
between its use of the Helix mark and that of QSA." The case cite is RealNetworks, Inc. v. QSA Toolworks, LLC, 2009 WL 2512407, No. 07-1959 (Aug. 14, 2009 ...
1 Oct, 2008 9:18 am
... Corp.'s Fox, Universal, Paramount and Sony - are ganging up to sue RealNetworks Inc. over a new software program, called RealDVD, that let's consumers ... Motion
Picture Association of America, the main lobbying arm of the movie studios, in a statement. "RealNetworks knows its product violates the law and undermines the hard-won trust
that has ... t be reached. News Corp. owns Dow Jones, publisher of the Law Blog. RealNetworks, which filed its own suit against the studios in federal court in San Francisco ...
8 May, 2008 7:32 pm
... : "A federal court on Wednesday established a formula for determining the Internet royalties owed to thousands of music composers, writers and publishers by three major online
services - Yahoo Inc., AOL and RealNetworks Inc." The 153-page opinion of the court did not spell out the final amounts of royalties owed by Yahoo, AOL, and
RealNetworks to ASCAP members, but it did, by way of example, show an estimated amount of monies owed by Yahoo, retroactively, for ...
4 Feb, 2008 5:23 am
... gets bought? Yahoo Music Users Going to RealNetworks - pdf Yahoo Inc. will cease operating its online music subscription service and switch its customers to
RealNetworks Inc.s Rhapsody music service as part of a new deal between the companies that calls for Yahoo to promote Rhapsody on its site. Later - the LATimes' Jon Healey
asks the key question: If Yahoo can't do it . . . - pdf The deal ...
20 Oct 2:47 pm
... May I posted - in an article titled "Challenging DMCA Conventional Wisdom" - about a creative, but seemingly futile, effort by RealNetworks to plead its way around the
Digital Millennium Copyright Act for yet another variant of DVD-ripping software. Well I ... California) sided with the movie studios against Real, issuing a permanent injunction, and
holding in a well-reasoned opinion in RealNetworks, Inc. v. DVD Copy Control Association, that Real had violated the DMCA. So this is effectively the end ...
7 Sep 12:53 am
... District Court W D Washington: No likelihood of confusion between HELIX trademarks: RealNetworks, Inc v QSA Toolworks LLC (Seattle Trademark Lawyer) District Court N
... no 36: MTOWN CLOTHING and MOTOWN confusingly similar for clothing: UMG Recordings, Inc substituted for Universal Music Group v Charles O'Rourke (TTABlog) TTAB reverses ... )
TTAB says CHROMALOY merely descriptive of surgical implants: In re Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc (not precedential) (TTABlog) US Trade Marks - Lawsuits and strategic steps ...
17 Sep, 2007 1:03 pm
... Deringer LLP. In the last two months, EU regulators have charged Intel Corp. and Rambus Inc. with antitrust abuse. This week, it will hold closed hearings in which Apple ...
itself against allegations that it restricts customer choice with separate national iTunes stores. And Google Inc. will soon have to seek EU approval to take over DoubleClick ...
's U.S.-based rivals _ including Sun Microsystems Inc. and RealNetworks Inc. _ about how the software giant used its presence on most desktop computers to ...
23 Apr, 2008 8:25 am
... Richard Reinhardt (p/k/a Richie Ramone) complaint that was nixed as a result. He alleged that the Defendants, WalMart Stores, Inc., Apple, Inc., RealNetworks,
Inc., Taco Tunes, Inc., Ramones Productions, Inc., Estate of John Cummings (a/k/a Johnny Ramone), Herzog & Strauss and Ira Herzog, all infringed on Reinhardt's
copyright to six songs penned while one of The Ramones, by digitally distribution. ...
2 May, 2008 4:00 am
One might not readily think of pairing the Ramones and Wal-Mart, but they were in Richard Reinhardt (p/k/a Richie Ramone and Richie Beau), Plaintiff, v. Wal-Mart stores, Inc.,
Apple, Inc., Realnetworks, Inc., Estate of John Cummings (a/k/a John Ramone and Johnny Ramone), Taco Tunes, Inc ., Ramones Productions, Inc., Herzog
& Strauss, and IRA Herzog, Defendants, reported at 2008 WL 1781232, No. 07 Civ. 8233 (S.D.N.Y. April ...
19 Oct, 2006 1:21 pm
... BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT, Warner Music Group, Universal Music Group, The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), The Harry Fox Agency Inc. (HFA), The
MCPS-PRS Alliance Limited, Sociedad General de Autores y Editores, AOL, LLC, Apple Computer Inc., Microsoft Corporation and RealNetworks Inc. More information about
DDEX can be found at its website. I've had the opportunity to work with DDEX and its members from ...
6 Feb, 2007 2:30 pm
Apple's Jobs calls on music industry to drop DRM - pdf Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs on Tuesday called on the four major record companies to start selling songs online
without copy ... , when you buy a CD, it's yours - you do what you want," said Matt Graves, a spokesman for RealNetworks Inc., the Seattle company behind the Rhapsody
online music store. "These restrictions hurt people who are trying to do the right thing." […] "The picture he paints in his letter is a vision that is commonly ...
13 Jul, 2007 5:12 am
... to take effect Sunday. Webcasters had sought an emergency stay from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, arguing that the higher rates would drive many of
them out of business. […] Big webcasters such as Yahoo Inc. and RealNetworks Inc. also are fighting the new rates, as are National Public Radio stations and other
traditional broadcasters that stream music online. […] The Copyright Royalty ...
15 Jul, 2007 11:54 pm
... Center in DC) (brief here) The Wireless Association Ctia AARP (again, both local and from DC) (brief here) National Association of Consumer Advocates (one of the two listed counsel
is with the AARP Foundation) Intel Corporation Amazon.com , Inc. Realnetworks , Inc. Microsoft Corporation Here's commentary on the case from a Seattle Times
reporter: State Supreme Court backs class-action suits, Postman on Poltics, July 12 ...
19 May 1:05 pm
Realnetworks, Inc. v. DVD Copy Control Assn., Inc., 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 38221 (N.D. Cal. May 5, 2009) Requestor filed spoliation sanctions against producer for
producer's failure to preserve certain information. Among requestor's claims were that producer's employees "carefully crafted any potentially discoverable document in a manner helpful
to [producer] Real's litigation by using specific [...]
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