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An independent website has been told to stop putting footage of FA Premiership goals on the video website YouTube.

NetResult - a firm monitoring the internet on behalf of the Premier League - emailed a warning to the website, 101greatgoals.blogspot.com.

It told the website it was "infringing" Premier League copyright.

Links from 101greatgoals to YouTube were thought to have been disabled by YouTube itself but other links to Premiership goals stayed in place.

The news comes after the video-sharing service wiped nearly 30,000 files from its website after Japanese media companies said their copyright was being infringed.

The Japan Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers found 29,549 music video, movie and TV clips had been posted without permission.

YouTube, which was launched in February 2005 and shows about 100 million clips per day, was recently bought by search giant Google for $1.65bn (£883m).

Critics of the deal have warned Google could face a barrage of lawsuits over copyrighted material on YouTube.

YouTube mostly hosts homemade videos, however, it also contains clips of copyrighted material.

It has recently signed distribution deals with media groups including Universal Music Group, Warner Music and CBS to offer short-form programming including news, music videos, sport and entertainment.

The BBC is currently prohibited from showing footage of Premier League goals on its website.

But from next season Match Of The Day and MOTD2 will be streamed on broadband as simulcasts with the TV programmes for UK users - meaning all the Premiership goals will be available online for the first time in the UK.

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IBM Corp. alleged in two lawsuits Monday that important components of Amazon.com Inc.’s massive retailing Web site were developed and patented many years earlier at IBM.

Amazon, which this year will sell $10 billion worth of everything from books and CDs to pet supplies and jewelry, is accused of infringing on five IBM patents. IBM says the technologies covered by the patents govern how the site recommends products to customers, serves up advertising and stores data.

Some of the patents were first filed in the 1980s, when IBM created back-end technology for Prodigy, an early online service that grew out of a joint venture between IBM and Sears, Roebuck & Co. One such patent is titled "Ordering Items Using an Electronic Catalog."

"Given that time frame, these are very fundamental inventions for e-commerce and how to do it on the network," said John E. Kelly III, IBM’s senior vice president for intellectual property. "Much, if not all, of Amazon’s business is built on top of this property."

Hundreds of other companies have licensed the same patents, and IBM has tried to negotiate licensing deals with Amazon "over a dozen times since 2002," Kelly said. Seattle-based Amazon has refused every time "while pretending to desire resolution," the lawsuits state.

Amazon declined to comment.

There appears to be no sensitive customer relationship at stake in the IBM-Amazon tussle. Traditionally a big customer of Hewlett-Packard Co., Amazon does little if any business with IBM.

© 2006 The Associated Press.

IRVINE, CALIF. — Prosecutors are considering charges against Snoop Dogg after authorities discovered a 21-inch collapsible baton in his bags as he boarded a New York-bound flight, authorities said Monday.

The rapper, whose real name is Calvin Broadus, had the baton in his laptop case as he went through a security checkpoint at John Wayne International Airport on Sept. 27, sheriff’s spokesman Jim Amormino said.

Snoop Dogg, 35, told sheriff’s deputies that the baton was a prop for a movie he was filming in New York, Amormino said.

"He had a collapsible baton and it is classified as a dangerous weapon," Amormino said, adding that the stick collapsed to eight inches.

District attorney spokeswoman Susan Kang Schroeder said her office received the sheriff’s report on Monday. She said prosecutors had not yet decided whether to charge Snoop Dogg, who was not arrested.

It wasn’t the first time the rapper has had a problem at an airport.

In May, he accepted responsibility for using "threatening words or behavior" in an April brawl at Heathrow Airport in London. Snoop Dogg and five other men were arrested on charges of violent disorder and starting a brawl after some members of the rapper’s party were denied entry to British Airways’ first-class lounge.

Seven officers received minor injuries — mainly cuts and bruises — and one suffered a fracture to the hand.

British Airways has banned Snoop Dogg from future travel on the airline, it said last month.

Snoop Dogg was convicted in 1990 of cocaine possession and was charged with gun possession after a 1993 traffic stop. Facing a possible three years in prison, he pleaded guilty in exchange for three years’ probation and his promise to make anti-violence public service announcements.

He also was acquitted of murder in 1996 following the death of an alleged street gang member killed by gunfire from the vehicle Snoop Dogg was traveling in.

Snoop Dogg’s 1993 album "Doggystyle" sold 5 million copies.

© 2006 The Associated Press.

NEW DELHI, INDIA — Bollywood leading lady Aishwarya Rai is eager to work with U.S. actor Will Smith, but is in no rush to sign on to other Hollywood projects, a news agency reported.

Rai has some big roles in upcoming Bollywood releases, including the much anticipated "Dhoom 2," and she’s been linked to several Hollywood projects such as "Chaos," in which she would star alongside Meryl Streep.

But in an interview with the Press Trust of India, Rai declined to discuss any Hollywood plans, apart from a possible film with Will Smith for which she has already seen the script.

"There are quite a few scripts from abroad, but I hope to be able to work with Will Smith. The script was great and it will be fun to work with him," the agency quoted Rai as saying on Monday.

As for other Hollywood projects, it quoted as saying, "I really want time to decide. I don’t know what will come my way. I will go through the scripts, I will look at the dates and only then will sign newer movies."

Rai, a former Miss World, has acted in more than 30 movies and is considered among India’s top actresses.

© 2006 The Associated Press.

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via Egotastic.