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File-hosting service Megaupload sued Universal on Monday claiming that the label had sabotaged its viral advertising campaign.

The Hong Kong-based company said that Universal wrongfully claimed copyright over the Mega Song, a promotional track commissioned by Megaupload which featured some of the biggest names in pop music.

Nikki Finke, the infamous editor of Deadline.com is apparently suing the Hollywood Reporter for copyright infringement... because it wrote stories on the same news events as Deadline.com.

Seriously.

Less than a week after her investiture ceremony, U.S.

District Court Judge Beryl Howell gave several copyright holders carte blanche to continue their profitable settlement schemes.

This verdict weakened the position of thousands of alleged BitTorrent users, some of whom may be completely innocent.

Back in December, we did a little back-of-the-envelope calculating to show how much more expensive it is for Netflix to license movies for streaming, as compared to just buying DVDs and shipping them out.

The differences are staggering. And apparently it's only getting more expensive.

HBO won't come to Netflix's streaming service until the latter charges customers $20 per month, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

During 2010 the United States Copyright Group (USCG) sued tens of thousands of BitTorrent users who allegedly shared films without the consent of copyright holders.

The aim was not to take cases to court, but to get alleged infringers to pay a cash settlement to make legal action go away.

It's not often you hear of a copyright claim concerning a text that was supposedly written more than 2,500 years ago.

The Hollywood Reporter has the news that Wayne Dyer, a "self-help" guru, has been sued for copyright infringement for using text from "Tao Te Ching: A New English Version," by Stephen Mitchell, in his own book.

But, of course, if the Tao Te Ching is from two plus millennia ago, what's the copyright claim?

The Hurt Locker has been a great success on BitTorrent, before and after its Oscar triumph. The film’s screener leaked in February of last year, months before it premiered in movie theaters in the United States.

However, the demand on BitTorrent went up significantly after it was chosen as the Best Picture of 2009

Just a few short weeks ago we asked if Twitter could save the cult NBC sitcom My Name is Earl.