Articles by Paul A. Greenberg & Lori Enos

After meeting in Brussels with European Commission officials on Wednesday, U.S. Undersecretary of Commerce Robert LaRussa said that e-commerce issues related to Internet taxation and data protection should be the subject of ongoing international dialogue LaRussa also suggested that the "digital divide" issues in Europe and the U.S. are common enoug...

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) asked a federal court judge Monday to issue an injunction to prevent music swap site Napster from "facilitating or assisting others in the copying, downloading, uploading, transmission or distribution of copyrighted musical works." The RIAA filed the motion in U.S. District Court in San Francisco...

U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson dropped a bombshell in the ongoing Microsoft antitrust case Wednesday when he revealed that he is leaning toward splitting Microsoft Corp. into three parts, rather than the two proposed by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) The three-way split had been suggested to the court in an amicus brief (fr...

In a blistering 73-page response filed Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and 19 states staunchly rejected Microsoft Corporation's proposal for self-imposed remedies to keep its company intact The government told the court that Microsoft's suggested remedies would do nothing to prevent a recurrence of the illegal behavior that led U.S....

Just weeks after being found liable for copyright infringement, MP3.com (Nasdaq: MPPP) announced Wednesday that it is voluntarily removing "Big Five" record company content from its My.MP3.com database Users will be unable to access music from Arista Records, Inc., Atlantic Recordings Corp., Capitol Records, Inc., Sony Music Entertainment, Inc., an...

After weeks of behind-the-scenes wrangling over remedies in the Microsoft antitrust case, published reports Monday indicate that the U.S. government and 19 states are inclined to seek a breakup of the company Reportedly, the government will propose a radical alteration in the structure of Microsoft, splitting it into two or three individual compani...

Just days after the landmark antitrust ruling was handed down against Microsoft Corp., the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) have issued joint guidelines for companies that seek to collaborate with competitors on the Internet The guidelines were issued Friday amid recent rumblings that new online alliances in t...

In a case that could have widespread implications for the future of Internet competition, a federal judge has ruled that online companies can legally provide links to rival Web sites At issue was whether startup Tickets.com, Inc. had a legal right to link its site to pages deeply embedded within the site of its chief competitor, Ticketmaster.com. T...