Brietbart.com: “Dogs Used to Tackle Movie, Music Piracy.”
Text of Complaint in Viacom v. YouTube
Coutesy WSJ Online, text of Viacom v YouTube complaint here.
I wonder what’s the highest damages demand ever in a copyright case. UPDATE: $1.65 trillion. Why not ask for a gazillion dollars?
MORE UPDATE: Google Watch highlights 18 arguments in Viacom’s complaint.
Prof Goldman comments.
EFF Comments.
BuzzMachine makes an interesting point
Viacom Sues YouTube
Viacom Press Release:
NEW YORK, March 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Viacom Inc. (NYSE: VIA and
VIA.B) today announced that it has sued YouTube and Google in U.S. District
Court for the Southern District of New York for massive intentional
copyright infringement of Viacom’s entertainment properties. The suit seeks
more than $1 billion in damages, as well
Deja Vu All Over Again
“Edison was adamant that Edison recordings would be played only on Edison phonographs. His competitors, Victor and Columbia, shared the same playback technique, etching a laterally cut groove that sent the needle moving horizontally as the record played. Their recordings could be played on one another’s machines. Edison, however, adopted his own design, a groove
Network Solutions Purchased By Private Equity Frim
Biz.Yahoo.com: “Network Solutions Annonces Ownership Change” (General Atlantic Partners purchase NetSol from Pivotal Private Equity).
And I’m Sitting Here On Capitol Hill
Let me anticipate two questions.
C-Span is not a government entity, but a not-for-profit consortium backed by the cable industry, and, all other things being equal, can own and assert copyright.
Second, a congressperson showing a bit of C-Span footage of a congressional hearing on the congressperson’s website, would seem to be fair use.
OK,
Par Value of One Thousand Words Per Picture
Getty Images Inc. is one of the largest vendors of still and moving images to the media industry. It is also a publicly traded company, which means that there is interesting stock coverage, commentary and SEC filings, relating to the marketing and valuation of images in the digital era.
NY Times On Branding
NFL Copyright Warning Put Back On YouTube
Wendy Seltzer recovers from her first DMCA takedown and get her video of NFL’s copyright warning put back up on YouTube.
ROTOWIPER Brand Weed Wiper Triumphant
ArkansasBusiness.com: “New Zealand Manufacturer Gets Injunction Against Northwest Arkansas Group“:
Rotoworks International Ltd., a New Zealand farm implement manufacturer, received a preliminary injunction Monday in a trademark infringement case involving a bait-and-switch scheme by a northwest Arkansas group.
In the lawsuit filed by the Henry Law Firm of Fayetteville, Rotoworks claimed the defendants