‘Hari Puttar’ wins ‘Harry Potter’ suit

Hari PuttarThe Delhi High Court has dismissed a lawsuit filed by Hollywood production giant Warner Bros seeking stay on the release of Bollywood film ‘Hari Puttar. Warner Bros studio had claimed that “Hari Puttar,” had a title that was too similar to its billion-dollar franchise about J. K. Rowling’s boy wizard. “Hari Puttar,” is produced by the Bollywood studio Mirchi Movies. Mirchi Movies argued on it defense that Hari was a popular name in India, and that “puttar” means son in Hindi and Punjab.

YouTube Ordered to Give All User Histories to Viacom

You TubeYouTube which is owned by Google has to turn over every record of every video watched by YouTube users to ViaCom,a judge ruled. Google was sued by ViaCom in March 2007, for allowing users to upload clips of Viacom’s copyright material. Viacom is a media conglomerate with various worldwide interests in cable/satellite television networks (MTV Networks and BET), video gaming (Sega of America), and movie production and distribution.

Belgian newspaper sues Google

Judge HammerBelgian newspaper group Copiepresse ask $77.5 million from Google in damages for use of their work. In 2006 Belgian newspaper group Copiepresse filed a lawsuit against Google for re publishing their articles online. Google and Copiepresse went into negotiations to settle it out side court. Google News is an automated news aggregator. The service covers news articles appearing within the past 30 days on various news websites.