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Band Sued Beastie Boys on Eve of Adam Yauch’s Death

A company representing the band Trouble Funk picked a bad time to accuse the hip hop legends of copyright infringement.

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Mein Kampf to Return to German Bookshelves

Bavaria is to go ahead with the first German publication of Hitler’s Mein Kampf since World War II.

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Exclusive: Cooks Source Writer Marvels at the ‘Nerd Rage,’ Keeps Waiting For That Apology

It was the cry of plagiarism heard ’round the web world on Thursday – the tale of a writer who says she found her work repurposed in a magazine without her permission and who, when she demanded compensation, was allegedly mocked via e-mail by an editor who informed the scribe that all things web were [...]

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Facebook Trying To Trademark “Face” and “Book,” Eventually Taking Away All Nouns

First, they came for our privacy. Now, they want to take two very common nouns, too.

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A Shirley Sherrod Lesson from Seinfeld: Context!

As the Shirley Sherrod incident has made plain, the cautionary tagline of the world of online videos has to be context, context, context!

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Exclusive: 8-Bit Salvation! Summit Restores Low-Tech Twilight Game After Protest

UPDATED 5pm Eastern: It’s been a rocky day in the land of the 8-bit Twilight game – the delightful choose-your-own-adveture YouTube fad that’s been enjoyed by more than 600,000 fans and, for a brief time, was shut down Thursday. But its makers protested – exclusively to NewsFeed (see below) – and Summit restored the game. [...]