Search giant Google lost a court fight Tuesday in a copyright case that highlights the challenge of building a business on the frontier of technology and the law.

PARIS - French lawmakers gave final approval Friday to government-backed legislation that could force Apple Computer Inc. to make its iPod music player and iTunes online store compatible with rivals' offerings.

NEW YORK - A few weeks ago, Tom Liston stopped giving away his popular security software.

NEW YORK - A group of music publishing companies said Monday it is joining a copyright infringement lawsuit against Google Inc.'s video-sharing site YouTube.

NEW YORK - A settlement has been reached in the lawsuit against Google over the Internet search engine's use of copyrighted material.

NEW YORK - Just weeks after a leading authors' organization sued Google for copyright infringement, the Association of American Publishers has also filed suit against the search engine giant's plans to scan and index books for the Internet.

A downtown Scottsdale gallery is fighting to keep a collection of Renoir statue duplicates that a federal judge ruled to be in violation of copyright laws.

A downtown Scottsdale gallery is fighting to keep a collection of Renoir statue duplicates that a federal judge ruled to be in violation of copyright laws.

WASHINGTON - The Justice Department announced Thursday an 11-nation crackdown on large-scale Internet pirates who illegally distribute first-run movies, video games and other copyrighted materials.

WASHINGTON - A federal court has temporarily banned a Los Angeles-based Web site from claiming that its service lets users legally share copyrighted files, the government said Wednesday.

NEW YORK - A $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit challenging YouTube's ability to keep copyrighted material off its popular video-sharing site threatens how hundreds of millions of people exchange all kinds of information on the Internet, YouTube owner Google Inc. said.

A downtown Scottsdale art gallery has been denied a federal appeal in a copyright violation case focused on its collection of Renoir statues. The Rima Fine Art gallery was appealing a 2005 ruling by the U.S. District Court that the gallery violated copyright laws by duplicating and selling sculptures by artist Pierre Auguste Renoir.

A downtown Scottsdale art gallery has been denied a federal appeal in a copyright violation case focused on its collection of Renoir statues. The Rima Fine Art gallery was appealing a 2005 ruling by the U.S. District Court that the gallery violated copyright laws by duplicating and selling sculptures by artist Pierre Auguste Renoir.

A French trust that won a lawsuit against a Scottsdale Art Gallery now wants the gallery’s managers held in contempt of court and ordered to turn over copies of sculptures by impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

A French trust that won a lawsuit against a Scottsdale Art Gallery now wants the gallery’s managers held in contempt of court and ordered to turn over copies of sculptures by impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - A Swedish court on Tuesday handed down the country's first Internet piracy conviction, fining a man 16,000 kronor ($2,000) for using a file-sharing network to distribute a movie online.

August 25, 2004

I am trying to find a way to legally copy DVDs we own to an external hard drive for storage connected to my laptop. When we take long road trips it would be nice to not have to haul all our movies along. — Bill

A Gilbert man was indicted Tuesday on charges he participated in an international computer syndicate that bootlegged thousands of commercial software products over the Internet, officials said.

Q: Can you explain what the Internet blacklist legislation is all about? - Drew

PARIS - French lawmakers gave final approval Friday to government-backed legislation that could force Apple Computer to make its iPod music player and iTunes online store compatible with rivals’ offerings.

PARIS - French lawmakers gave final approval Friday to government-backed legislation that could force Apple Computer to make its iPod music player and iTunes online store compatible with rivals’ offerings.

Q: What's the latest with the Internet censorship bills in Congress and what can we do to help defeat them? - Joseph