Eminem, YouTube Give Apple Some Bad Joojoo

It's been kind of a rocky month for Apple, the iPhone, and for AT&T as a lot of people have lined up to take shots at them. Who and what for? Rapper Eminem is one of the bigger names, who joins another in misplaced copyright infringement claims, while rumors, hype, and hidden costs plague the minds (and pocketbooks) of others.

Eminem vs. Apple

Alleging that Apple was not authorized to sell Slim Shady songs on iTunes, Eminem's music publisher, Eight Mile Style and Martin Affiliated, filed a multimillion dollar lawsuit against Apple.

But some say, and this might be your first thought as well, that Eminem's publisher is going after the wrong company. "Eminem's publisher is suing the wrong party,"

It sounds like they're still mad about the rapper's "Lose Yourself" being used in an iPod commercial, as that's also named in the suit. But judging from the rest of the complaint, that might be a beef they need to settle with Universal as well.

Apple Inherits YouTube's Sin

Robert Tur, the quickest to sue YouTube (faster even than Viacom) after his infamous video of the LA riots showed up there, might sue Apple now, too, for creating a technology to convert Flash video to H.264 format for iPhone play.

"Apple created a device that now traffics in bootlegged content," Tur told