Facebook has agreed to investigate complaints relating to harassment or pornography within 24 hours as part of a settlement of a probe by New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo.

As promised in court this summer, Google has unveiled a new plan designed to weed out copyrighted clips from video-sharing site YouTube.

One of the last holdouts to digital music, classic rock group Led Zeppelin, has decided to makes its catalog available online starting next month.

The FTC appears poised to give the nod to Google's planned $3.1 billion buyout of ad-serving company DoubleClick, according to recent press accounts.

In another blow to the record industry, Madonna is poised to defect from Warner Music Group, according to a report in today's Wall Street Journal.

Web users with medical problems are particularly likely to go online to research their conditions and treatments, according to a new study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project.

The record industry's courtroom victory over Jammie Thomas is continuing to cause waves among pundits, who are weighing in on both the bad publicity generated by the case and whether the judge in the case correctly interpreted copyright law.

It looks like Facebook is readying a new feature that will let musicians create pages for their bands and promote their tracks and upcoming concerts on the site. News of the service surfaced late last week on PaidContent.

In a closely watched trial, the music industry has scored its first courtroom victory against a consumer accused of infringing copyright by uploading music.

Online advertising again set new records in the first half of this year, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Revenue for the first six months of the year came to almost $10 billion, according to a report released this morning.