News.com: “YouTube’s Filtering Issues Still Not Moot“:
A year ago Wednesday, Google CEO Eric Schmidt delighted an audience of TV and radio broadcasters when he promised to roll out a system that would mean the end of piracy at YouTube.com
“We are in the process of developing tools which are called ‘Claim Your
Godzilla sues Subway for use of Godzilla in ad. Complaint here. Clearly defendants did not take sage advice from Austin Powers.
WSJ.Com: Running Over Fair Use Like The Hogwarts Express?:
“Warner and Rowling filed a lawsuit against RDR Books, a small publishing house in Michigan, over its plans to publish a print edition of The Harry Potter Lexicon website, a compendium of all things Harry that looks, well, rather daunting to neophytes like us. In
MediaPost: Scientologists Threaten Gawker Media With Legal Action Over Cruise Video:
WHEN A NINE-MINUTE VIDEO OF Tom Cruise touting the Church of Scientology hit the Web recently, the group quickly sent out takedown notices. Many publishers complied, but not Gawker Media’s Nick Denton.
Now, the notoriously litigious Scientologists have complained to Gawker that the
NY Times: Bits Debate: Copyright:
Throughout the debate this week on copyright issues, the question of fair use has come up repeatedly. On Wednesday, the topic for Rick Cotton, the general Counsel of NBC Universal, and Tim Wu, the Columbia law professor, was the legal concept of fair use: how much of a copyrighted
Boing Boing: Car Owners Are Pirates If They Distribute Pictures Of Their Own Cars:
“The folks at BMC (Black Mustang Club) automotive forum wanted to put together a calendar featuring members’ cars, and print it through CafePress. Photos were submitted, the layout was set, and… CafePress notifies the site admin that pictures of Ford
Connection between the Wonder Woman character and Playboy’s content discussed here. More reaction here.
Any excuse to recall the Air Pirates case.
Prof Lessig: “On the Texas Suit Against Virgin and Creative Commons.”
“Slashdot has an entry about a lawsuit filed this week by parents of a Texas minor whose photograph was used by Virgin Australia in an advertising campaign. The photograph was taken by an adult. He posted it to Flickr under a CC-Attribution
Dallas News: “… Mom Sues Virgin Mobile Over Teen’s Photo”
What would you do if a company grabbed a goofy picture of your kid off the Internet, slapped some snarky text on it and used it to sell mobile phone service half a world away?
Susan Chang decided to sue.
Extremely muddled legal discussion
Google Public Policy Blog: “The Economic Value of ‘Fair Use’”
“The study — which I encourage you to check out — concludes that the “fair use economy” in 2006 accounted for $4.6 trillion in revenues (roughly one-sixth of total U.S. gross domestic product), employed more than 17 million people, and supported a