Loudr helps cover artists manage intellectual property rights and works to get royalties for mechanical rights from platforms such as Spotify.
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Apple sues accessories maker for counterfeit chargers on Amazon
Just as often as entities sue Apple, Apple sues others back. This week, it laid a complaint against a company called Mobile Star which Amazon has sourced Lightning connector chargers from.Amazon labeled at least one product, a generic 5W Apple-style charger with a 1-meter ...
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Another patent trial verdict is overturned, this time favoring Apple over Samsung
You lose some, and then you win some. It’s been like that for many, many years on the so-called smartphone patent wars front, and while a number of combatants have backed out or reached out-of-court settlements, Apple continues to seek damages from arch-rival and occasional business partner Samsung, as smaller outfits do the same unto the world’s largest technology company.Seeing as how the never-ending legal battle between the top two smartphone OEMs is as much if not more about pride and bragging rights as money, news of an unfavorable February verdict being reversed by the US Court ...
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Java code in Android ruled fair use (again), Oracle to appeal
What’s said to be billions of dollars will not go to Oracle because of today’s federal jury ruling.All ten members of the panel agreed that Google’s appropriation of 37 Java APIs in its development of Android fell under the “fair use” clause of copyright law.Shortly after the verdict, Google stated that:Today’s verdict that Android makes fair use of Java APIs represents a win for the Android ecosystem, for the Java programming ...
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Oracle blames Android for deep cuts in licensing revenue
Java is running hot between Oracle and Google as does the retrial over whether the latter’s parent company, Alphabet, should pay licensing fees for the development platform or legally claim fair use and owe nothing.Oracle’s co-CEO Safra Catz testified in San Francisco district court that Google’s decision to open up Android for manufacturers to develop meant a severe drop in its Java API licensing revenues.Pre-Android era, Samsung paid $40 million per agreement to Oracle — ...
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