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They say they’re being held captive by patent holding companies – sometimes called patent trolls – who acquire patents on small parts of technologies for the purposes of filing lawsuits and extracting settlements. The emergence of these small players on the IT market over the last decade has changed the […]

UPDATED: Leading Internet and media companies teamed up today to set ground rules for dealing with copyright infringement in videos uploaded to user-generated content Web sites — and demanding stronger efforts on the part of content hosts. Those companies — which Include CBS Corp., Microsoft Corp., NBC Universal, News Corp.’s […]