News.com: “Starz Sues Disney Over Movie Downloads”:
“Liberty Media Holding’s Starz Entertainment cable network said on Thursday it is suing a unit of Walt Disney for allowing other movie download services to sell titles while they were exclusively licensed to Starz.
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, was brought by Starz
Copyright
“Music Publishers Sue XM Over Digital Copying”
Hollywood Reporter: “Music Publishers Sue XM Over Digital Copying”:
“The suit, filed in federal court in New York by the National Music Publishers Assn., alleges that XM engages in massive copyright infringement through its subscription digital music download service known as XM + MP3.
According to the NMPA, the suit was filed after months of…
Release the Hounds
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…
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.
More On Webcasting Royalty Rates
China: IFPI SuesYahoo Over Links To Unlicensed Music
ZDNet: “Yahoo China Sued For Alleged Copyright Breach“:
“Music industry giants including Warner Music Group are suing Yahoo China for alleged copyright infringement by providing links to unlicensed music, trade organization IFPI said on Wednesday.
Beijing’s No. 2 Intermediate Court has accepted the case, which was filed in early January by 11 companies…
Microsoft: “Searching For Principles: Online Services and Intellectual Property”
Thomas C. Rubin (Associate General Counsel for Copyright, Trademark and Trade Secrets, Microsoft Corporation): “Searching for Principles: Online Services and Intellectual Property” (speech delivered to the Association of American Publishers):
“So the question we need to ask ourselves is: What path will we as a society choose in making the world’s books and…
Could This Be The End Of Webcasting?
Colleague Paul Fakler stopped by on his way to the coffee machine to advise that webcasting as we know it may soon be over. Forced by me to expand, Paul advises:
“Although the public version of the decision has not yet been released pending various redactions of sensitive financial information, the newly-formed Copyright Royalty Board…
I Would Have Gotten Away With It If Not For That Pesky ITunes
A reviewer for Grammophone puts a Liszt CD performed by the last pianist Joyce Hatto, into iTunes. ITunes identifies it as Liszt alright, but somebody else as the performer. And the uncovering of a high profile incident of plagiarism in concert music had begun.
The rest of the Hatto story in text form via Stereophile…