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A Welcome Decision for Online Video Sites

BY David Mullings
Relevancy Score: 100
Thu Aug 28, 2008 at 9:53 AM

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»

MUSIC PIRACY | Comment

IFPI Appoints 'Anti-Piracy Czar' To Police High Seas of File-Sharing

BY Clay Dillow
Relevancy Score: 100
Mon Sep 28, 2009 at 1:23 PM

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»

INTERNET + WEB | Comment

Universal Sues Grouper and Bolt.com

Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 7:04 PM

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»

SACRAMENTO BUSINESS LAWYER | Comment

Copyright Is Alive and Well

BY Deborah Barron
Relevancy Score: 100
Mon Jul 13, 2009 at 12:33 PM

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»

RE:CON WTF 2004 | Comment

A Policy Town Meeting of One

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 100
Sat Apr 3, 2004 at 3:10 PM

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»

ENTERTAINMENT | Comment

YouTube's Newfound Clout

BY Peter Hoy
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 11:05 AM

With Google in its corner, YouTube rewrites the rules in the fight between old media and new media. READ»

ARTS + ENTERTAINMENT | Comment

Courting the Enemy

Relevancy Score: 99
Tue Jul 19, 2005 at 1:45 PM

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»

INNOVATION | Comment

Using Your Neighbor's Intellectual Property

BY David Teten
Relevancy Score: 95
Tue Jul 8, 2008 at 5:47 PM

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»

INTERNET + WEB | 1 comment

Google Could Shake Up Copyright Debate

Relevancy Score: 88
Tue Apr 10, 2007 at 3:28 PM

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»

COMPETITION | 1 comment

The Google Backlash

Relevancy Score: 86
Tue Mar 13, 2007 at 1:08 PM

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»

ENTERTAINMENT | 2 comments

Search and Co-Opt

BY Adam Penenberg
Relevancy Score: 83
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:20 AM

PodZinger has a way out of the Web-video conundrum: Make piracy pay.READ»

ARTS + ENTERTAINMENT | Comment

Not Everyone Loves MySpace

BY Lynne d Johnson
Relevancy Score: 83
Wed Nov 22, 2006 at 1:19 PM

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»

ETHICS | Comment

Journalism 2.0: What's the next step for news wires?

BY Brendan Collins
Relevancy Score: 80
Thu Jun 19, 2008 at 1:44 PM

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»

PIRATE BAY | Comment

Four Convicted in Pirate Bay Trial

BY Chris Dannen
Relevancy Score: 77
Fri Apr 17, 2009 at 9:42 AM

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»

BUSINESS | 5 comments

RIAA To Stop Suing Individuals For Music Piracy

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 72
Fri Dec 19, 2008 at 7:47 AM

'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»

INTERNET + WEB | 3 comments

The Birth of the Goog-Tube

Relevancy Score: 70
Mon Oct 9, 2006 at 6:25 PM

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»

INTERNET + WEB | 1 comment

YouTube and MySpace: Pulling Out Copyrighted Content

Relevancy Score: 70
Wed Feb 14, 2007 at 4:34 PM

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»

CHEWBACCA DEFENSE | Comment

Torrent Site Fights Legal Action with 'Chewbacca Defense'

BY Chris Dannen
Relevancy Score: 69
Thu Feb 19, 2009 at 11:55 AM

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 | Comment

RIAA Still Suing Individuals, While E.U. Lightens Three Strikes Rule

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 69
Thu May 7, 2009 at 8:32 AM

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»

ENTREPRENEUR | Comment

Copyright Problems with Brightcove

BY David Mullings
Relevancy Score: 68
Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 10:31 AM

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»

INTERNET + WEB | Comment

I Download Illegally -- and Harmlessly

Relevancy Score: 59
Mon Jun 21, 2004 at 12:48 PM

Good news for music downloaders: A recent study shows that Internet music piracy not only does NOT hurt legitimate CD sales, it may even boost sales of some types of music. That's good news for file swappers of all stripes. In a ...READ»

APPLE | Comment

Psystar Keeps Shipping Mac Clones, Despite Lawsuit

BY Chris Dannen
Relevancy Score: 59
Thu Aug 14, 2008 at 7:57 PM

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»

CHANGE AGENTS | Comment

He Changes Minds

BY Anni Layne
Relevancy Score: 55
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:34 AM

Bob Young and the Red Hat Center hope to empower change agents in every industry, from every country, for every consumer touched by technology.READ»

ENTERTAINMENT | 19 comments

The Wizard of iPod--Jobs' DRM Deal Is Smoke and Mirrors

Relevancy Score: 50
Tue Apr 3, 2007 at 2:29 PM

Pay no attention to that man in the mock turtleneck behind the curtain. Too much fanfare, Apple's Steve Jobs and British music giant EMI Group announced that for an extra $.30 they will sell songs on iTunes without copy protection. ...READ»

DESIGN | 3 comments

GoogleBooks and Adobe Fever – A Luddite’s Lament.

BY Ellen McGirt
Relevancy Score: 46
Fri May 11, 2007 at 7:02 PM

I used to think I was a reasonably creative professional, until I attended the Cre8 conference, an annual gathering that is devoted to all things Adobe. The Acrobat version, as opposed to the southwest version. It was held in one of ...READ»

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