CNET News - Digital Media

Judge halts BlueBeat's sale of Beatles tunes

Jonathan Skillings — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:51:00 PST

Temporary restraining order finds BlueBeat's arguments "lacking in clarity" and sees the threat of irreparable harm to the copyright holders.

EMI to offer instant concert recordings

Matt Rosoff — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:21:00 PST

An initiative called Abbey Road Live will enable concert attendees to buy CDs, DVDs, or flash cards with recordings of the show they just heard.

Originally posted at Digital Noise: Music and Tech

Sesame Street, Droid get Google's love

Ina Fried — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:20:00 PST

The search king has given much of its front page love this week to honor Sesame Street's 40th anniversary, but it did save some space to tout the new Droid smartphone.

Originally posted at Beyond Binary

Jimmy Wales on what's next for Wikipedia

Natasha Lomas — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:47:03 PST

Founder of the online community-written encyclopedia talks to Silicon.com about what's next for the site and why it needs geeks of all kinds.

eBay's Skype sale gets go-ahead with settlement

Jonathan Skillings — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:58:00 PST

New deal brings in Skype founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis as investors in a roughly $2 billion sale of the Internet telephony pioneer.

No Doubt says 'no' to Band Hero depiction

Don Reisinger — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:47:35 PST

Popular rock band No Doubt is suing over its likeness being used in Activision's new Band Hero video game.

Originally posted at The Digital Home

Beatles copyright case down a legal rabbit hole

Matt Rosoff — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:07:31 PST

BlueBeat is streaming Beatles recordings for free and selling them for 25 cents apiece, claiming that they aren't the original recordings and therefore aren't copyright-protected.

Originally posted at Digital Noise: Music and Tech

Getty and Flickr deepen photo-licensing ties

Stephen Shankland — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:23:00 PST

Flickr photographers now can more actively try to sell photos through Getty's 60,000-image collection. Meanwhile, Toyota shows that there's a market.

Originally posted at Deep Tech

Study: Internet use won't cause social isolation

Don Reisinger — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:23:00 PST

The Web has been cited for causing individuals to withdraw from society. But a recent Pew study shows that the opposite might be true.

Google unveils search tool for retail sites

Don Reisinger — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:22:00 PST

Commerce Search tool is designed to make the online shopping experience easier for consumers and, thus, more profitable for retailers as the holidays approach.

Originally posted at Webware