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Alleging that the iconic Elvis Presley "was unjustly exploited during his lifetime by his record company," the King's estate has announced a multimillion dollar lawsuit filed in Ge... More

Yesterday (Aug. 29), we reported that the developer beta of Apple’s iTunes Match appeared to show options for both streaming and downloading content from the cloud to a user’s ... More

After a false start earlier this summer, Moviepass might finally be able to launch its subscription movie ticket service, thanks to a partnership with theater voucher provider Holl... More

Facebook plans to launch a music platform at its f8 conference in San Francisco on 9/22, a source with knowledge of the plans tells CNBC. The social network’s music platform laun... More

Carl Icahn has given up on his long and costly attempt to capture a Hollywood lion. Ending a three-year battle that included a trio of lawsuits and tender offers, and nearly $25 mi... More

Yesterday (Aug. 29), initial first-week sales projections for Lil Wayne’s “Tha Carter IV” were hovering in the 700,000-850,000 range, but now, after a full day’s worth of s... More

Bayfiles works similarly to other one-click-hosting services such as Megaupload, RapidShare and Hotfile. With just a single click, users can upload files to the Bayfiles server, an... More

An arcane but critical copyright law is under attack by a key government agency. The U.S. Copyright Office, which advises Congress on copyright issues, is proposing that lawmakers ... More

Sunlyte LLC (Kennebunkport, Maine) is joining forces with EDC (Langenhagen, Germany) and shorewood.blueprint (Middlesex, UK) to form the Sunlyte Alliance....The Sunlyte Alliance of... More

Launching the second iteration of the iPad earlier this year, Apple CEO Steve Jobs proclaimed 2011 the year of the iPad 2. So it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise to hear that... More

“The business we’re in today, offering first-run movies a la carte, is doing very well right now and has tripled so far this year,” Vudu General Manager Edward Lichty said. �... More

IP addresses have real uses when it comes to identifying Internet activity, but they work best when paired with targeted investigation rather than as “spray-and-pray” shotgun-s... More

Nu Image has voluntarily dismissed its case against the last remaining defendants in a high-profile lawsuit that targeted 23,322 alleged pirates of "The Expendables," the 2010 film... More

If Facebook is going to announce any sort of music product or partnership, it could come at the company's just-announced f8 developer conference on Sept. 22. There has been a lot o... More

Millenniata, a new optical disc company, says that its M-Disc recordable media provides data storage for centuries by “laser etching data into an inorganic rock-like material.”... More

The game-changer is actually buried in this week’s decision in Capitol Records v. MP3tunes, a ruling that fell solidly in favor of the DMCA and cloud-based lockers. MP3tunes foun... More

Internet radio company Pandora reported the financial results for its first three months as a public company Thursday. The Oakland, Calif.-based company confirmed that while it sti... More

The upcoming Walmart circular reveals that the mega-retailer will do a "rollback" on the price of the Xbox 360 4GB Kinect bundle, dropping it to $249 (down $50 from the current pri... More

The deadline for initial bids in the auction for Hulu was extended from Wednesday until the end of the week to allow interested parties more time to examine the online video site�... More

Dallas-based researcher Parks Associates says 13 percent of consumers who have broadband connections have made cutbacks within the last 12 months — with another 9 percent to come... More