The five legal cases that defined the year in music

2010-03-19T12:30:47Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Billboard) - Almost a decade after the major labels launched their legal assault on Napster, courts are still writing the rules of the road for the music business's digital future.</p><p>Companies can't set out to build a business based on their users' infringement of copyright, courts had already ruled. But the precise meaning of that dictat...

Norway court snubs call to block The Pirate Bay

2010-02-24T08:46:48Z

<div><p>A court in Norway on Friday rejected calls from the entertainment industry to force communications giant Telenor to block its customers from accessing popular file sharing website The Pirate Bay.</p><p>It ruled Telenor and other Internet service providers in Norway cannot be he...

Dutch court orders Pirate Bay to remove links

2010-02-24T15:40:01Z

<div><p>A Dutch court Thursday ordered Sweden's The Pirate Bay filesharing website to remove links to works of members of a Netherlands-based music and film copyright protection group.</p><p>The Amsterdam referral court ordered the thre...

Swedes deny owning Pirate Bay in Dutch court

2010-02-24T21:15:23Z

<div id="subtitle">Swedes deny owning The Pirate Bay in Dutch court, nominal owner Reservella a no-show</div><div><p>Lawyers for three Swedish men denied in Dutch civil court Thursday that the men are the owners of The Pirate Bay web site.</p><p>The site, one of the largest on the Web, provides an index to Pirate Bay suitor Global Gaming Factory has been served with a bankruptcy petition, a Stockholm court official said on Friday, after a former board member filed a complaint over unpaid debts.</p><p>"There has been an application from another company, Advatar Systems, against Global Gaming Factory (GGF)," a spokeswoman for St...

Would-be Pirate Bay buyer ousted from stock market

2010-02-25T09:50:50Z

<div id="subtitle">Would-be buyer of Pirate Bay ousted from stock exchange for misleading markets</div><div><p>The would-be buyer of Swedish file-sharing Web site The Pirate Bay has been kicked out of the smallcap stock exchange Aktietorget for misleading the market, the Swedish trading platform said Wednesday.</p><p>Aktietorget said Global Sweden's

The Pirate Bay back online after fine threat

2010-02-25T15:57:39Z

<div><p>The Pirate Bay, one of the world's most popular filesharing websites, was back online on Tuesday after being shut down when a Swedish court threatened its bandwith supplier with a hefty fine.</p><p>The site could be accessed late in the afternoon on Tuesday after it had been taken offline the previous day.</p><p>The Pirate Bay's founders issued a...

Swedish court temporarily shuts down Pirate Bay

2010-02-25T16:00:39Z

<div id="subtitle">Swedish court forces Internet provider to stop serving file-sharing Web site The Pirate Bay</div><div><p>Swedish file-sharing Web site The Pirate Bay has been temporarily shut down after a Stockholm court ordered one of its Internet providers to stop serving the site.</p><p>The

Fine threat puts The Pirate Bay off the Internet

2010-02-25T16:09:09Z

<div><p>The Pirate Bay, one of the world's most popular filesharing websites, is off the Internet after a Swedish court threatened its bandwith supplier with a hefty fine, news reports said Tuesday.</p><p>Stockholm's district court on Monday ordered Black Internet to stop providing bandwidth to The Pirate Bay or face a fine of 500,0...

Fine threat puts The Pirate Bay off the Intenet

2010-02-25T16:09:59Z

Pirate Bay to challenge ruling, deadline passes

2010-02-25T22:13:52Z

<div id="subtitle">Pirate Bay challenging Dutch court ruling, deadline passes with no indication of compliance</div><div><p>A court-imposed deadline has quietly passed for Swedish-registered Web site The Pirate Bay to block traffic from the Netherlands or pay copyright holders damages.</p><p>There's n...

Pirate Bay to challenge Dutch ban

2010-02-25T22:15:25Z

<div><p>The owners of Swedish filesharing website The Pirate Bay will seek a retrial after a Dutch court temporarily banned its activities in the Netherlands, their lawyer said on Monday.</p><p>"We will file a summons by August 25" before the district court in Amsterdam, lawyer <...

Pirate Bay website banned in Netherlands

2010-02-26T02:42:56Z

<div><p>A Dutch court on Thursday temporarily banned Swedish filesharing website The Pirate Bay from operating in the Netherlands by granting an application brought by a copyright lobby group.</p><p>A judge ordered three owners of the site to "cease infringing the copyright of the members" of Stichting Brein, a trade association...

Dutch court rules Pirate Bay must quit Netherlands

2010-02-26T02:46:00Z

<div id="subtitle">Dutch court rules Pirate Bay must cease activities in the Netherlands</div><div><p>A Dutch court ruled Thursday that three men connected with Web site The Pirate Bay must block traffic between the site and the Netherlands within 10 days.</p><p>The written ruling concludes that the m...

Hollywood studios sue file-sharing site

2010-02-26T03:44:28Z

<div><p>Hollywood studios are suing the popular Pirate Bay file-sharing website for moving pirated material even after its founders were sentenced for copyright crime, a lawyer said Tuesday.</p><p>"We have filed a complaint against The Pirate Bay because they have not stopped their activities after they were sentenced to prison," the studios' Swedish lawyer Pirate Bay file-sharing site</div><div><p>A dozen Hollywood production companies have filed a new lawsuit against file-sharing Web site The Pirate Bay.</p><p>Columbia Pictures...

Would-be buyer of Pirate Bay backpedals in court

2010-02-26T06:43:17Z

<div id="subtitle">Lawyer for would-be buyer of Pirate Bay backpedals in Dutch court, saying takeover uncertain</div><div><p>The would-be buyer of Web site The Pirate Bay backpedaled in a Dutch court Tuesday, saying that it is uncertain whether the purchase will ever be completed.</p><p>Lawyer R...

New Pirate Bay to be based on give-and-take models

2010-02-26T07:50:29Z

<div id="subtitle">New Pirate Bay owners to launch give-and-take payment models</div><div><p>One of the world's largest filesharing Web sites, The Pirate Bay, is going legal through a series of give-and-take payment models that in some cases may even earn its users a bundle of cash, the new owners said Saturday.</p><p>"The more you give, the more you get...

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