San Francisco - A federal appeals court has overturned a victory for Universal Music Group in a dispute over how much it royalties it owes rapper Eminem for digital sales of his songs, Bloomberg reported.read more

Los Angeles - Police in as many as 14 European countries launched a coordinated series of raids on suspected file-sharing network operations on Tuesday, according to published reports. Belgian authorities reportedly spearheaded an investigation that led to the raids against companies including Sweden's PRQ -- the new Web host of whistleblower site WikiLeaks -- but Swedish prosecutor Frederick Ingblad confirmed for the local Expressen.se that WikiLeaks was not  a target of the operation.read more

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Mountain View, Calif. - Google (NASD: GOOG) hopes to launch its planned music service as early as December, and the company's vice president of engineering Andy Rubin is leading licensing talks with the major labels on the download store and cloud-based locker service, Reuters reported, citing sources.read more

Los Angeles - It took the maker of a documentary about Swedish file-sharing hub The Pirate Bay just three days to raise the $25,000 he needs to finish production from online donations, TorrentFreak reported. A campaign on the Kickstarter crowd-sourced fundraising platform has thus far raised $30,525 for filmmaker Simon Klose's "TPB AFK," described as "an observational, character driven film about three guys whose hobby homepage became the embryo of a global political movement." read more