In a statement issued Friday, artist Shepard Fairey admitted to falsifying information about which photo he used as the basis for his now-iconic "Hope" poster portrait of President Barack Obama.

While just a day or so ago the founders of The Pirate Bay, Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and Peter Sunde, expressed a great deal of confidence in their trial, but Friday a Swedish court found the three, as well as Carl Lundstrom, who provided financing, guilty of facilitating copyright infringement.

Earlier this year John McCain was forced to remove a YouTube video because it used the song "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You" by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, without permission.

Publishers commonly profit from the creative works of their freelance contributors not only in the traditional print format, but increasingly digitally through websites, databases, and multimedia output and through syndication and sales to third parties publishers. More enlightened publishers make provision for this in the contract with their freelancers and pay royalties on such secondary and tertiary practices, but this is not common practice.

Five Hollywood studios are suing a Chinese online service and internet cafe they accuse of offering pirated downloads of Pirates of the Caribbean and other hit films.

Tonight in Spain, the boss of the internet brigade of the police says in the Webmasters Congress, its legal to give downloads with copyright with a specific condition, don't purchase.

A Sydney man who recorded The Simpsons Movie on his mobile phone has been fined $1,000 after pleading guilty to two charges.

Fan sites dedicated to artist Prince say they have been served legal notice to remove all images of the singer, his lyrics and "anything linked to Prince's likeness", and have vowed to fight what they said was censorship.