Vivendi-owned Universal Music Group filed a lawsuit Monday against video-sharing YouTube rival Websites Grouper.com and Bolt.com, accusing the sites of hosting pirated versions of Universal music videos.
Universal maintains that ...READ»
Yes, there is indeed such a thing as copyright infringement, meaning people should not be using other people's written works without express permission.READ»
Wendy Seltzer is a staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, as well as a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. What follows is a partial transcript of her talk at WTF 2004, as well ...READ»
Today, TechCrunch reported about the ruling in a case against video site Veoh: What The Veoh Decision Means For YouTube and Others.
Even though I do not run a video-sharing website (we do not allow users to upload video), I ...READ»
The recording industry, or at least the disjointed array of labels, trade groups, and intellectual property authorities that represent it, has had little success in curbing music piracy on the Web. In what is perhaps an admission that ...READ»
Revenue from DVD sales have been helping film studios out of the hole left by poor box office receipts, except in China. Experts guess that up to 90% of DVD sales in China are pirated. Hoping to take a step forward, Hollywood signed ...READ»
Recently, a relatively new member of the Ecademy business network posted an article from Scott Allen's About Entrepreneurs site in his blog, without a link and proper attribution. We don't believe that he was trying to claim ...READ»
Plenty has been written on how the existing notion of copyright is unsuitable for the Internet era. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) has proved inadequate for the demands of a world where technology is constantly evolving. ...READ»
Poor YouTube. It seems that this innovative idea that once attracted the world's amateur filmmakers to put their work out there for the world to see has become a target since it's purchase by behemoth search-provider Google, dooming ...READ»
At a time when most music artists are embracing MySpace as an extension of their marketing plan, Jay-Z wasn't too delighted that MySpace served its site members a sneak preview of his entire new album last week. Kingdom Come, the ...READ»
The Viacom v. YouTube case has been loud and ugly, and some might have expected a long, drawn-out legal decision. Not so--the court ruled somewhat surprisingly in favor of YouTube.READ»
The New York Times reports that on Tuesday the Associated Press eased off their initial threat to evil, quote-stealing bloggers worldwide. Last Friday, the AP issued an ultimatum to the blog Drudge Retort (not to be confused with the ...READ»
The music industry won a major victory against copyright infringement today with the conviction of the four men behind the Pirate Bay, a file-swapping service with over 20 million members. The men were sentenced in a Swedish court ...READ»
According to used software dealers the savings can be as much as 50% compared to purchasing new licenses. But there are still risks involved in purchasing used software and continuing court cases in Europe on this subject oblige vigilance from multi-national organizations. READ»
'Tis the season traditionally associated with goodwill, but I'm not sure I could've predicted this piece of good news: the Recording Industry Association of America is going to stop suing individuals for music piracy.
There are ...READ»
In the past week YouTube and MySpace have taken steps to reduce the copyrighted content on their websites. But that is where the similarity ends. While YouTube has been forced by Viacom to take down its copyrighted content, MySpace ...READ»
The rumors are true! Google has acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion in stock. According to a Google press release "YouTube will operate independently to preserve its successful brand and passionate community." The transaction has ...READ»
Yesterday was the third installment of the Pirate Bay Trial in Stockholm, Sweden, that has pitted a popular file-sharing site against media companies claiming copyright infringement. Fresh off yesterday's minor victory, when half the ...READ»
Piracy and copyright issues are still troubling the world, and recent news about the RIAA, and the European Union's copyright laws highlight this fact. The RIAA is reportedly still suing people when it said it wouldn't, and in ...READ»
Today has not started off well at all.
We completed editing our first 2 videos to upload to our new YouTube channel, the first official Caribbean media channel on YouTube, but then it turned out that the audio was thrown off ...READ»
Larry Lessig started Creative Commons, is a law professor at Stanford and is doing a lot of thinking about how to get Congress to be more responsive to our needs. Here we talk about that and whether America needs a Chief Technology ...READ»
Grey Group's Let the Music Live On campaign takes the original music piracy slogan--Home Taping is Killing Music--literally, by assassinating the artists.READ»
Psystar ventured to do the impossible: sell generic Macintosh clones preinstalled with Apple's [NASDAQ:AAPL] Mac OS X operating system, without Apple's blessing. It's not usually a good idea to cross Apple's team of attack-dog IP ...READ»
