THe Smoking Gun: Lawsuit Over Topless Aniston Photo.
NHL Policy On Use Of Videos
New Tee Vee: “Is NHL Putting YouTube On Ice?”
“The NHL, which gained nearly universal praise for its decision to allow widespread use and sharing of highlight clips on YouTube, seems to be putting the practice of allowing embedding on ice, with some NHL clips on YouTube now sporting the line Embedding disabled
Viacom Goes With Joost: Copyright Protection As Selling Point To Suppliers
Reel.com: Viacom to put clips on Joost, Rebuffs Youtube:
“Just three weeks after pulling their content from YouTube, Viacom is expected to announce today a broad licensing agreement with Joost, a P2P video platform which was only recently released into beta. Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman says the decision was made because Joost promised to
Content Recognition Software As Anti-Piracy Tool
NY Times: “New Weapon in Web War Over Privacy“:
“The new technological weapon is content-recognition software, which makes it possible to identify copyrighted material, even, for example, from blurry video clips.”
Universal Poised To Win Royalties War With Bolt.com
IHT: “Universal Music Group poised to win royalties war with Bolt.com”
“Bolt has agreed to admit that the uploads were a violation of Universal’s copyrights and to pay a settlement valued at several million dollars, said Aaron Cohen, Bolt’s chief executive. Bolt will also agree to pay royalties in the future any time
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Claiming Ownership In A Viral Video
New TeeVee: Legend of Bridezilla: You Can’t Own a YouTube Hit (discussing multiple claims of ownership, copying and unauthorized sale of videos on YouTube).
Steve Jobs: Thoughts On Music
Steve Jobs: Thoughts on Music
“So if the music companies are selling over 90 percent of their music DRM-free, what benefits do they get from selling the remaining small percentage of their music encumbered with a DRM system? There appear to be none. If anything, the technical expertise and overhead required to create, operate and
11th Circuit: Effect Of Rejection of Copyright Assignment Under Bankruptcy Code
Thompkins v. Lil’ Joe Records, 05-10143 (11th Cir. Feb. 5 2007):
“This appeal requires us to consider what happens when a debtor-in-
possession in a Chapter 11 bankruptcy case, who negotiated the purchase of
copyrights prior to the bankruptcy proceeding, later uses the bankruptcy code to
reject those contracts that transferred ownership of the
Some Posts On the Viacom/YouTube Spat
NewTeeVee: ‘YouTube Should Call Viacom’s Bluff‘
Mark Cuban: ‘Gootube Terrorizes Copyright Owners by Withholding Filters‘ (in which he advocates the uploading of porn to YouTube to test its filtering abilities.
Reel Pop: “YouTube’s inability to remove copyrighted clips could get it sued” (in which it monitors Google’s progress in