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Mar. 11, 2008 at 8:54am by Barry Schwartz
Judge Denies Punitive Damages In Viacom Vs. YouTube Case
Viacom Denied Punitive Damages In YouTube Suit from the Silicon Valley Insider reports a US District Court has denied Viacom's request for punitive damages against Google over the YouTube copyright claims. Judge Louis Stanton said "common-law punitive damages cannot be recovered under the Copyright Act," and denied Viacom's action against...
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Jan. 2, 2008 at 8:46am by Barry Schwartz
Baidu Beats Music Labels In Music Copyright Case Again
Beijing court sides with Baidu in music piracy case from the AFP reports that Baidu has won a copyright case in a Beijing appeals court against the music labels. The court upheld the decision that Baidu is not guilty of property rights infringement for displaying links to web sites that...
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Dec. 21, 2007 at 9:04am by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo China Loses Case On Linking To Unlicensed Music
Yahoo! Found Guilty of Mass Copyright Infringement from TorrentFreak reports Yahoo China lost the case over linking to unlicensed music in China. Didn't they already lose the case? Well, in April they were ordered to remove those links and ordered to pay 200,000 yuan. But they then appealed that ruling...
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Dec. 11, 2007 at 8:48am by Greg Sterling
In Parallel Universe, Porn Producer Sues YouTube Clone
The world of pornography often mirrors the world of "respectable" publishing and content. For years the adult film awards in LA both mocked and aspired to be like the Oscars. Porn producers are also often tech pioneers, the most famous example of which is the adoption of the VCR early...
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Dec. 5, 2007 at 10:53am by Greg Sterling
Nielsen Seeks To Become Video Copyright Arbiter
Nielsen has partnered with Digimarc to digitally "watermark" or fingerprint video clips from media companies circulating on the Internet. Clips would have a unique ID and specific rules could be assigned to govern their uploading and distribution accordingly, to prevent copyright infringement....
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Nov. 16, 2007 at 9:26am by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo China Appeals Ruling To Remove Links To Unlicensed Music
Yahoo China Appeals 'Deep Link' Ruling from Billboard reports Yahoo China is appealing the ruling for Yahoo China to remove links to the unlicensed music and pay record companies $27,000 in damages. Yahoo released a statement:...
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Oct. 29, 2007 at 10:33am by Greg Sterling
Viacom And Google Reprimanded By Frustrated Judge
In what is starting to become the tech equivalent of the OJ Simpson trial, The Hollywood Reporter says that the judge in the Viacom litigation against YouTube/Google has grown frustrated with delays and resistance by both sides to the discovery efforts of one another. Discovery is a pre-trial phase of...
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Oct. 15, 2007 at 12:30pm by Eric Ward
Fall Cornucopia Of Linking News
Here we go again... The Associated Press (AP) is suing news aggregation site Moreover and parent company VeriSign, claiming copyright infringement for, among other things, linking to the AP news without permission (here's the complaint in PDF format). In an awesome bit of newsbot irony, you can read all...
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Aug. 31, 2007 at 1:08pm by Danny Sullivan
Google News Now Hosting Wire Stories & Promises Better Variety In Results
Today, Google News will begin offering articles from several major wire services and news agencies hosted on its own site, rather than sending readers away from Google. The move is part of licensing agreements that have been stuck over the past year. Google News is also promising better duplicate story...
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Aug. 29, 2007 at 9:30am by Barry Schwartz
CCIA, Google & Microsoft Launch "Defend Fair Use" Web Site
Google, Microsoft-backed group ready to Defend Fair Use from Ars Technica reports Google and Microsoft are backing a new web site, organized by the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA), named Defend Fair Use. The web site is accepting signed petitions to support their push to make copyrights clearer to...
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Aug. 9, 2007 at 11:07am by Barry Schwartz
After Striking Out With Google, Perfect 10 Bats Against Microsoft Over Image Search
Perfect 10 has issued a press release announcing it is now going after Microsoft for copyright infringement over including Perfect 10's images in Live Image Search. Norm Zada, Perfect 10's president said: Microsoft is showing tens of thousands of extremely valuable celebrity images, along with Perfect 10 images, without authorization,...
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Aug. 7, 2007 at 9:20am by Barry Schwartz
More Join YouTube Class Action Suit Copyright
More parties join Google copyright lawsuit from Reuters reports that eight more parties have joined the class action copyright lawsuit against Google's YouTube. As we reported earlier, the lawsuit that English soccer's Premier League Ltd and music publisher Bourne & Co have against YouTube is now beginning to get more...
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Aug. 1, 2007 at 8:28am by Barry Schwartz
Google, Microsoft & Others Want Copyright Warnings To Be Clearer
Google, Others Contest Copyright Warnings from the Wall Street Journal reports the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA), which includes Google and Microsoft, are filing a complaint with the FCC about how some content companies are taking their copyright warnings a bit too far. The CCIA would like the FCC...
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Jul. 13, 2007 at 10:46am by Barry Schwartz
Google's Schmidt: Viacom, A Company Built From Lawsuits
Google takes swipe at Viacom, talks social networks from Reuters reports Google CEO Eric Schmidt as saying "Viacom is a company built from lawsuits, look at their history." Schmidt said this while being asked questions at a hotel bar at the 25th annual Allen & Co. "moguls meeting." Schmidt added,...
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Jul. 11, 2007 at 10:07am by Barry Schwartz
Want To See The Latest Movies For Free? Use Google Video, Complains Watch Group
Watchdog group flags top pirated films on Google Video from News.com covers a report by the National Legal & Policy Center named Is Google Promoting Video Piracy? In this report, they documented fifty cases of movies and other copyrighted material being uploaded and accessible via Google Video for free. Some...
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Jul. 3, 2007 at 9:05am by Barry Schwartz
Google Appeals Belgium Newspaper Case Ruling
Google appeals Belgian copyright law, talks ongoing from MarketWatch reports that Google is appealing the copyright case they lost in Belgium....
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Jun. 15, 2007 at 10:03am by Barry Schwartz
Google Talks About YouTube Video ID Tool
The Google Blog has posted about the video copyright identification tool the company is developing. They reference the Reuters article we mentioned in our YouTube Ready To Test "Fingerprinting" Video Tool. The Google post also gives us more insight into the technology and process of how this will potentially work....
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Jun. 8, 2007 at 4:28pm by Danny Sullivan
MacMillian CEO Charkin Steals Google Laptops To "Prove" Book Scanning Point
Via Techdirt, Book publisher steals Google laptops from The Register covers the jaw-dropping action of Richard Charkin, CEO of Macmillian Publishing, stealing laptops from a Google booth at BookExpo America to try and prove a point about Google "stealing" books for its book search service. Blogged Charkin: Our justification for...
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Jun. 1, 2007 at 9:15am by Barry Schwartz
Schmidt Calls Viacom's $1B Lawsuit "Just A Mistake"
Google's Eric Schmidt: Viacom's lawsuit is 'just a mistake' from News.com reports that when Walt Mossberg questioned Eric Schmidt about Viacom suing YouTube for $1 billion earlier this, year, Google's CEO responded that "it was probably just a mistake." Of course, Mr. Mossberg was not satisfied with that answer. He...
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May. 21, 2007 at 10:05am by Danny Sullivan
Google Denies New UK News Search Deal
Google reach deals with news websites from the Sunday Herald reports that Google has reached a deal with several large UK newsgroups to carry content on Google News, but Google tells me no such deals have been agreed....
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May. 16, 2007 at 1:37pm by Barry Schwartz
Court Reverses Preliminary Injunction Against Google Showing Thumbnail Images
Court ends ruling halting Google sex thumbnails from Reuters covers the US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals lifting a preliminary injunction against Google over showing thumbnail images. In February 2006, a lower court ruled in favor of Perfect 10, which claimed Google violated copyright law by displaying thumbnails of images...
