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YouTubers Call Takedown Notices Abusive

Corporations misusing copyright laws with demands, citizens say

Oct 19, 07 2:04 PM CDT
(Newser) - YouTube has long been on the forefront of citizen filmmaking, but now it’s hitting the vanguard of citizen litigation. Many are crying foul at the frequency of takedown notices—warnings of infringement by copyright holders. Said one user who sued Universal after video of her baby performing over a... More »

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YouTube • Universal Music Group • copyright • Michelle Malkin • Akon • Electric Slide • takedown notices

Piracy Lawsuit Against YouTube Continues

Viacom spokesman: "The new technology obviously has no bearing on the past"

Oct 17, 07 5:59 PM CDT
(Newser) - Google's new anti-piracy software on YouTube may do great things from now on, says Viacom, but it still plans to go ahead with a lawsuit over the its products showing up on the Google-owned site without permission. "The new technology obviously has no bearing on the past," a... More »

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Google • Viacom • YouTube • copyright

Google Bares Tool to Hunt & Zap Copyrighted Videos

Technique designed to dodge Viacom lawsuit

Oct 16, 07 6:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - Google yesterday unveiled new technology to seek out copyright-protected material on its YouTube site, which the company hopes will head off Viacom's $1 billion lawsuit. The software scans videos, breaks them down into data points and analyzes them so that any matching versions can be flagged and removed "in... More »

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Google • Viacom • YouTube • copyright law • intellectual property • software • copyright

German Publishers Launch Google Books Rival

Service won't show text snippets, which Germans think violate copyright

Oct 14, 07 11:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - German publishers irked by Google Book Search's indexing of their books without paying a fee have launched a competing version of the same service. So far, reports Ars Technica, about 300 publishers have made about 8,000 German books available to searchers on Libreka.de, with up to 50,000... More »

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Google • copyright law • Germany • copyright • publisher • German • Google Book Search • Libreka

AP Sues News Site for Copyright Infringement

Says Moreover uses copy sans permission

Oct 10, 07 1:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Associated Press is taking news aggregator Moreover to court, for allegedly posting and archiving AP wire stories without permission. The lawsuit filed yesterday in federal court demands a stop to the practice and unspecified damages. The service doesn’t fall under fair use, in the AP's eyes, because Moreover... More »

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VeriSign • copyright • lawsuit • Associated Press • Moreover

Campaign Against Music Piracy Goes to First Trial

Jury will decide fate of Minnesota woman sued by record companies

Oct 1, 07 11:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - The recording industry has initiated over 20,000 lawsuits against individuals since it launched its zero-tolerance copyright campaign against file-sharing in 2003, but never before has one gone to trial. Now a jury will decide whether a young mother illegally distributed 1,702 audio files on the peer-to-peer network Kazaa. More »

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Recording Industry Association of America • copyright law • copyright • file sharing • Virgin v. Thomas • p2p

Wal-Mart Moves to Take a Bite Out of Apple

New online music store undercuts iTunes, lifts limits on copying

Aug 21, 07 5:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - Seeking to wrest control of the market from Apple, Wal-Mart today launched an online music store that undercuts iTunes by 5 cents per song. More important, the retail behemoth has dropped DRM copyright protection, which means customers can burn as many CDs as they like and play songs on any... More »

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music • music downloads • iTunes • Apple • copyright • DRM • music label • Wal-Mart

Moscow Court Acquits Music Site Boss

Allofmp3.com founder ruled innocent of copyright infringement

Aug 16, 07 8:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Russian court has acquitted the founder of Allofmp3.com of breach of copyright, Reuters reports. The now-defunct Russian website infuriated American and Western European music companies by offering cut-rate downloads that they said infringed on their copyright. EMI, Time Warner, and other major corporations insisted on prosecution, but a... More »

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Russia • music • Moscow • copyright • file sharing • mp3 • court • Allofmp3 • Denis Kvasov

Bill Targets Designer Knockoffs

Copycat clothes would be blocked for 3 years

Aug 10, 07 8:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - Capitol HIll is considering a bill that would place fashion designs in the same league as a work of art that can be copyrighted, protecting designers from cheap knockoffs for three years. Currently, designers can copyright logos and names, but manufacturers can legally replicate their creations stitch for stitch—and... More »

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fashion • design • copyright • Narciso Rodriguez • clothes • knockoff • fashion designer

Music Publishers
Add Vocals to
YouTube Suit

Join sports leagues and other aggrieved parties in class-action suit

Aug 7, 07 9:38 PM CDT
(Newser) - Apparently YouTube forgot to make a deal for the music and lyrics played on its website, or so claims a music publishers’ association that has joined a growing copyright lawsuit aimed at Google, the site's owner, ars technica reports. YouTube, which did agree to share ad revenue with four major... More »

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music • Google • Internet • Viacom • YouTube • copyright • lawsuit • music label

Town's Tussle Over Trademark Intensifies

Martha's neighbors
like the name Katonah, want to keep it

Jul 5, 07 12:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - Katonah, NY, doesn't appear to need pro bono legal assistance. The average home price tops $900,000, and the leafy New York suburb is so desirable that Martha Stewart calls it home. That's where the trouble started: Stewart wants to trademark the town’s name for a home-decor line, and... More »

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copyright • Martha Stewart

Bush Cozies Up to China

Patient president avoids hot-button policy issues, treads lightly on trade deficit

May 25, 07 5:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Bush struck a conciliatory tone in yesterday's congress with Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi, despite thickening indignation over Chinese policies. The Journal reports that the White House meeting tiptoed around China's tolerance of copyright piracy, the export of tainted food products, and Beijing's increasingly worrisome nuclear program. More »

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China • food contamination • Wu Yi • piracy • copyright • nuclear program • trade deficit • yuan

Google Stares Down Viacom, Copyright

How do the boys keep YouTube from turning into  Napster?

Apr 2, 07 7:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - With Viacom incubating "the biggest copyright lawsuit in history" against YouTube, the video-sharing site is beginning to smell a bit like Napster. Which leads Clive Thompson to ponder in New York why the Google boys decided to acquire YouTube—and its looming crisis—last year. And why, once they... More »

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media • Google • Internet • Viacom • YouTube • Web 2.0 • intellectual property • copyright • Sumner Redstone

Novelist Gives
Away Movie Rights 

Jonathan Lethem wants to shake up thinking about intellectual property

Mar 26, 07 11:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - Jonathan Lethem is giving away the film option and, eventually, all ancillary rights to his new novel, "You Don't Love Me Yet," publicly grappling with issues of intellectual property and copyright law. "What I'm seeking to explore is that incredibly fertile middle ground where people control some... More »

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Jonathan Lethem • copyright law • film • law • publishing • property • copyright • book • movies

Big Guns Battle Video Sharing With Free TV Shows

Copyright-protected content will be available for free online in new NBC-News Corp. partnernship

Mar 23, 07 9:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - TV biggies NBC Universal and News Corp. are teaming up to hit YouTube with the full force of their their combined TV content, offered online for free. Starting this summer, AOL, Yahoo, Microsoft's MSN and News Corp. subsidiary MySpace will hope to win over internet users (and the advertising that... More »

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television • Yahoo • Google • Internet • YouTube • AOL • Microsoft • MSN • Rupert Murdoch • MySpace • Heroes • 24 • NBC • advertising • intellectual property • consumer • copyright • file sharing • Internet advertising • News Corp

Viacom Sues Google

Mar 14, 07 8:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - Viacom filed a $1 billion lawsuit against Google yesterday for what it says is gross copyright infringement on YouTube, the company's newest acquisition. Google has promised to work with companies to remove copyrighted material, but Viacom complains that illegally posted clips of its programs like "The Daily Show" have... More »

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media • Google • Internet • Viacom • YouTube • copyright • lawsuit • acquisition

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