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The Daily Roundup for 12.28.2012
You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours -- all handpicked by the editors here at the site. Click on through the break, and enjoy.
The Daily Roundup for 11.22.2012
You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours -- all handpicked by the editors here at the site. Click on through the break, and enjoy.
Who's suing Apple today? Mirror Worlds takes aim at Time Machine and more
While it's not quite a daily occurrence, it must nearly seem that way for the folks in Apple's legal department, who are now facing yet another lawsuit alleging that the company has infringed on some slightly obscure patents. This latest one comes from Mirror Worlds Technologies, which claims that Apple's Time Machine violates no less than four of its patents that, as AppleInsider reports, describe a "highly visual system that displays a line of documents and other items dating back (or forward) in time along with the option of searching these items to retrieve and edit them." As if that wasn't enough, Mirror Worlds also claims that the iPhone and various iPods also infringe on all but one of the patents, apparently due to the way they sort podcasts and other information. As a result of all of that alleged infringement, Mirror Worlds is seeking the usual injunction against all Apple products in question, and "triple damages," which sure is step above and beyond most of these lawsuits that just seek plain old single damages.
Rock band The Knack sues Apple and others
eWeek reports that Seventies rock band The Knack is suing Apple, Amazon, Yahoo, RealNetworks, Napster - and rap group Run DMC - for copyright infringement, based on the distribution of Run DMC's 1986 song "It's Tricky," which is alleged to have used an unauthorized sample of The Knack's "My Sharona." As if that weren't enough, they've named Russel Simmons and a handful of music publishers and record labels in the suit just to make sure they've covered all 20 years worth of bases.Why wait 20 years? Um... I'm thinking it has something to do with $$$. But the plaintiffs, Knack's front man Doug Fieger and lead guitarist Berton Averre, swear they never even heard the Run DMC rip-off until August 2005. This blogger wishes she could say the same about "My Sharona" :) It could also have something to do with Fieger's recent surgery to have two brain tumors removed... when you're reminded of your own mortality like that, it tends to make you wonder who you could possibly sue before you die.But seriously, what has Apple or Amazon or anyone but Run DMC done wrong? These companies barely existed back then, if at all, and they certainly weren't in the music business. Why should they be on the hook for selling music that no one raised any eyebrows about for twenty years? Of course I, being an arrogant, elitist music snob, might say they all get what they deserve for doing anything at all to facilitate the distribution of Run DMC or The Knack, but I suspect that is not a valid legal argument.
