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Purported ACTA Wishlist Would Put DMCA To Shame
The list includes such gems as forced filtering of materials by the ISPs, gutting the parts of the DMCA that provides safe harbor to the ISPs, and even restricting supplies of 'optical grade polycarbonate' in ...
BUSINESSWEEK | Viacom vs. YouTube: Beyond Privacy
Just before the holiday weekend, media giant Viacom won a legal victory over YouTube that set off fireworks across the Internet.
Court Rejects Attempt to Expand the DMCA
Yesterday, a district court dismissed several claims in the case Coupons, Inc. v. Stottlemire , in which we had, in March, filed an amicus brief .
Mark Cuban's Wrong: Porn Filtering On YouTube Doesn't Mean It Loses Safe Harbors
Mark Cuban has a weird obsession with trying to convince people that YouTube is illegal, despite plenty of evidence to the contrary.
Judge Protects YouTube's Source Code, Throws Users To The Wolves
The ongoing Google/YouTube-Viacom litigation has now officially spilled over to users with a court order requiring Google to turn over massive amounts of user data to Viacom.
Wall-E is a copyright criminal
Jesse Willis went to see the new Disney/Pixar movie Wall-E and discovered that the lovable little robot is actually a dire criminal -- because he undertakes a variety of copying activities that will be illegal ...
EMI Sues VideoEgg, Hi5 Over User Video Uploads
The record label EMI has sued ad network VideoEgg and social networking site Hi5.com for copyright infringement based on music videos uploaded by users.
Associated Press vs. Drudge Retort and blogosphere: facts and outcome
Chances are you've heard all about the now-'resolved' dispute that opposed the Associated Press to social news sharing site Drudge Retort , over the fair - or unfair - use of AP quotes.
The Threat to "Fair Use" in the Blogosphere
I got a comment from Ian Lamont, managing editor of The Industry Standard, wondering why we didn't introduce the concept of "Fair Use" in our story about media companies using content recognition systems to go ...
The Associated Press' Automated Manhunt
Media fingerprint technology isn't exactly new. Movie studios use it when they send out screeners to track down who's leaking copies of Hancock on BitTorrent.
Canada's DMCA: a new public service announcement
The folks from Open Source Cinema have reedited their "Copyright Criminals" video to feature Canadian Member of Parliament Charlie Angus and a host of Canadians who don't want Bill C-61, the Canadian Digital ...
Associated Press goes after bloggers for copyright violation
Wednesday, June 25, 2008 The logo of The Associated Press The Associated Press news agency has come under fire from the blogging community after issuing a number of DMCA takedown notices against bloggers who ...
Copyright amendment act draws fire
On June 12, the federal government introduced Bill C-61, an Act to Amend the Copyright Act.
How Digg Handles DMCA Takedowns
Jay Adelson, the chief executive of Digg, told Saul Hansell of the New York Times how the social news site responds to DMCA takedowns : From time to time, Digg has received a request, under the Digital ...
PSD via Flickr AP and the Drudge Retort have resolved their copyright issue -- but do bloggers, journalists, and others remain on thin ice? This week I've been covering what appears to be an assault by the ...
Canadian DMCA will criminalize emailing your kids' class photos to their grandparents
Canadian DMCA will criminalize emailing your kids' class photos to their grandparents : Michael Geist continues his ongoing series on activities that will be illegal under Canada's new copyright act, the ...
So what's in the new copyright bill?
So what does the proposed copyright legislation, Bill C61, have in store for you? Aside from not being able to download free music any more, it puts all sorts of limitations on intellectual property and how it ...
DMCA takedown tiff not a battle the AP should be fighting
The Associated Press, upset that some in the online world might be stealing its audience by reprinting brief quotes from news stories and then linking the source, embarked on a recent campaign to curtail the ...
CIPPIC Disappointed With New Copyright Bill
' The Canadian Internet Policy & Public Interest Clinic of the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa is concerned with the contents of Bill C-61, An Act to amend the Copyright Act.
Would Someone Please Buy AP a Clue?
Sometimes a news item comes out of nowhere, and it feels like a press release went through a time warp and just arrived from a decade ago.