—Mail.ru: The Russian web portal has settled a copyright dispute with the state-owned media holding firm, All-Russia State Television and Radio Compant (VGTKR). The case was brought after Mail.ru users posted copyrighted full-length films owned by VGTKR, but the matter was settled out of court in Moscow on Monday after the argued it did not have the technical capabilities to police its users. From Vesti.ru, via WAN’s SFN blog.

—LinkedIn: The business network is looking to follow the launch of a Spanish release in July with a new French version of the professional networking platform. The site ambitiously hopes to double its French membership to 1.8 million as a result, that’s eight percent of the country’s workforce. From BrandRepublic.com and the LinkedIn blog.

—MP’s IPTV channel: For most MPs, a picture of them in their local paper each week is enough, but not for the Labour member for Hove and Portslade in East Sussex Celia Barlow, who is launching her own channel on the Global Digital Broadcast IPTV platform. The channel, showing Barlow at work, will be on GDB’s Go TV UK platform and Barlow’s own website. GDB, based in Barlow’s constituency, develops IPTV as well as its own set-top boxes. Release.

—Orange: Is Orange blocking access to P2P file-sharing site tracker The Pirate Bay? Torrentfreak reports that UK Orange broadband customers could not get access to the site, but now Orange has told PC Pro that it is not blocking anyone and is looking into why people can’t get access. Orange was one of the six ISPs that signed a memorandum of understanding with the UK government designed to cut down on illegal P2P file-sharing, but blocking access to sites was not one of the measures agreed on.