According to this view of the world, the music business has now tried its hand at being "innovative" and "customer focused."

IFPI admits that only 15 percent of European Internet users even engage in piracy at all, and it further admits that many of these users purchase music, but it still claims that piracy is the "fundamental problem."

As for what's selling, these are the major labels, so the top 10 singles are pretty execrable stuff unless you like Lady Gaga, Britney Spears, or songs with titles like "Kiss Me Thru the Phone" and "Boom Boom Pow."

The Chinese government had a relatively straightforward response Jan. 14 to Google's threat to stop censoring searches on its Chinese language site, Google.cn: Follow the law.

"This incident should be equally troubling to the Chinese government. The administration encourages the government of China to work with Google and other U.S. companies to ensure a climate for secure commercial operations in the Chinese market."

Last week the group unveiled the logo which is set to represent this bastion of copyright righteousness, but embarrassingly it was designed with unlicensed fonts.

"The problem is, this font was an 'exclusive corporate typeface'. It couldn't be used for other purposes than France Telecom/Orange products," he told us.

Yesterday there was panic, as Hadopi tried to repair the damage by sourcing new matching fonts they could license legally.

A Nigerian man has been charged with attempting to destroy a plane after he allegedly tried to detonate a bomb on a passenger jet arriving in the US.

Mr Abdulmutallab reportedly told investigators he had links to al-Qaeda and had received the explosives in Yemen.

A preliminary investigation found that security procedures were followed correctly, and the man had a valid US visa.

The 22-year-old Chicago woman faces up to three years in prison after being charged with a rarely invoked felony designed to prevent movie patrons from recording hot new movies and selling bootleg copies.

She was actually taping parts of her sister's surprise birthday party celebrated at the Muvico Theater in Rosemont.

Tumpach was arrested after theater managers insisted on pressing charges, he said. She was charged with criminal use of a motion picture exhibition.

There's footage of she and her relatives singing to her sister, she said. "We sang 'Happy Birthday' to her in the theater," Tumpach said.

The horror facing the unpopular Olympics logo is that this is a strict liability offence.

It was the logo's perceived suggestiveness - with many sniggering that it appeared to show Lisa Simpson performing an act of fellatio - that excited internet controversy.

Google variants on "Olympic logo" plus "Lisa Simpson", "fellatio", "blow job", etc and you will quickly turn up several thousand sites and articles which link those topics.

Film director Roman Polanski will not be released from prison until Monday at the earliest, the Swiss justice ministry has confirmed.

Polanski was accused of raping a 13-year-old girl after plying her with champagne and a sedative during a modelling shoot in 1977.

Polanski fled the US in February 1978 on the day he was to be sentenced, and has lived in France since then.

The Australian court case between the film industry and ISP iiNet drew to a close yesterday after the film studios issued an ultimatum: Take copyright responsibilities seriously or leave the industry.

'They provide a facility that is able to be used for copyright infringement purposes. If they don't like having to deal with copyright notices then they should get out of the business.'

If an artist or author sold a copyright before 1978 (Section 304), they or their heirs can take it back 56 years later. If the artist or author sold the copyright during or after 1978 (Section 203), they can terminate that grant after 35 years.

Sony Music filed a new copyright for the remastered version of Ben Folds Five's Whatever and Ever Amen album, and when Omega Record Group remastered a 1991 Christmas recording, the basis of its new copyright claim was "New Matter: sound recording remixed and remastered to fully utilize the sonic potential of the compact disc medium."

This might sound familiar, because BlueBeat.com employed similar logic in creating new copyrights to Beatles songs - right before it was sued by EMI and a judge barred them from continuing to sell the songs.

Google said it was disappointed by the move. The firm says it is convinced that Swiss View is legal in Switzerland and will "vigorously contest" the case.

Mr Thuer is especially concerned about people shown in sensitive locations such as hospitals, prisons or schools.

He also said that the height of the camera was problematic because it allowed a view over fences, hedges and walls, meaning that more could be seen from Street View than by a normal passer-by.