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One of the most popular games on Facebook, Scrabulous, that has been responsible for countless wasted internet hours, has been wiped off the site. The game is no longer accessible for Facebook’s members from US and Canada.

It was back in March 2007 that Viacom had filed a lawsuit against the search-engine giant Google, over copyright infringement. In the lawsuit that was filed against YouTube and its parent company, Google, Viacom had claimed that more than 150,000 unauthorized clips have been viewed for an astonishing 1.5 billion times.

EMI (Electric and Musical Industries Ltd.) has done it again! This time, they are suing social-networking site Hi5, video advertising start-up VideoEgg and 10 John Doe defendants for allegedly infringing on the copyrights of EMI content that appears on Hi5, particularly music videos.

Universal Music Group filed lawsuits against  two video-sharing Web sites Grouper.com and Bolt.com  for copyright laws  violation and by allowing users to share music clips and other content without permission.
Grouper.com was acquired by Sony pictures in August for $65 million. Universal Music agreed to a content licensing agreement with YouTube and negotiated licensing deals with [...]