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Authors and composers have until July 9 to comment on proposed new European Union rules that would loosen restrictive territorial contra...

A music service that lets consumers directly download an unlimited number of songs to their cell phones for a weekly fee is launching Thur...

The eviction of a newspaper reporter from a baseball press box for blogging about a game while it was in progress has stirred a debate about...

WASHINGTON--The Bush administration on Thursday blasted a congressional proposal that would shield a broad swath of news gatherers, inclu...

Texas police arrested seven convicted sex offenders after MySpace handed over identity details about the former members of the Internet s...

It's time to find a new home for the more than 2 billion pictures stored on Yahoo Photos. Even though the Internet company just refu...

Years after Volkswagen challenged drivers to "Think small," another automaker, Honda, plans to run smaller commercials for a sma...

A Malaysian teenager woken by a night-time noise dashed off a warning text message to her mother just in time to be rescued from an intruder...

A court decision reached last month but under seal until Friday could force Web sites to track visitors if the sites become defendants in a ...

A Manhattan jewelry dealer who directed his employees to secretly place bids that inflated the price of goods his company auctioned on eBay ...

Few sentences in the English language are more dreaded than this seemingly innocent offer: "Oh, I must show you the pictures from my va...

Call it a bit of a "video killed the radio star" moment, circa 2007: John Curley, who had been a deputy managing editor of The San...

For weeks, Ken Boehm blanketed the Internet as he hunted for video clips. But the former prosecutor is no YouTube fan. Boehm is chairman of ...

Google and its YouTube subsidiary are trying Hollywood's patience. The search engine has made significant progress in recent weeks signi...

In what's being billed as a first, Bon Jovi is bundling a digital iTunes copy of the band's upcoming album, Lost Highway, with advan...

Ask.com is expected to launch Tuesday a new search site that has analysts impressed, but it may not appeal enough to consumers to keep them ...

Lala.com, a Silicon Valley-based digital music start-up, said Monday it is launching an iPod-compatible online music service that offers fr...

A venture-capital backed Web site called Avvo.com that launches Tuesday claims to offer a "game-changing" alternative to the Yello...

Melodeo on Tuesday said it plans to help music fans stream their iTunes digital-music playlists to mobile phones. Privately held Melodeo ,...

Microsoft is introducing an initiative on Monday to promote emerging music acts across its digital properties. Called Ignition, the program...

Malaysian cinemas have found a powerful weapon in their fight against movie pirates--military-style night vision goggles. After showing peop...

Madison Avenue used to have high hopes for the lowly postage stamp. For decades, advertisers imagined that if only the legal barriers agains...

A European Commission advisory group has raised concerns about how Google uses and manages users' search data. A privacy advisory group ...

The creators of the online phenomenon "Lonelygirl15" have joined forces with social-networking site Bebo to create a British spin-...