Int Herald Tribune:
“Now, a handful of giant media companies, like NBC Universal, News Corp., Viacom and possibly CBS, are close to announcing a new Web site that will feature some of their best-known television programming and other clips in an attempt to build a business for distributing video on the Internet to rival
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Free Website Plagiarism/Infringement Search
By Marty Schwimmer on
Posted in Copyright
Copyscape provides a free ‘website plagiarism search’ in which you enter a URL, and the search returns pages that reproduce text from that URL. Play with it and tell me what you think.
KaZaa Made Me Do It? Class Action Against Sharman
By Marty Schwimmer on
Posted in Copyright
ArsTechnica: “RIAA Defendant Targets Kazaa In New Lawsuit” (Someone who had been sued by the RIAA for music downloading, sues Kazaa file-sharing software provider Sharman, for, I suppose, inducing infringement). HT RealTimeIntellect.
Record Labels Seek Lower Publishing Rates
By Marty Schwimmer on
Posted in Copyright, Music Copyright
Radio and Records: “Labels Seek Lower Royalty Rate“:
“Record labels are asking a panel of copyright judges to lower the rate they pay music publishers and songwriters for the use of the lyrics and melodies with which they create sound recordings.”
Who Owns Baseball Statistics?
By Marty Schwimmer on
Glenn Mitchell, head of litigation here, has written, Take Me Out [of] the Ball Game? U.S. District Court Rejects Proprietary Rights in Player Names and Statistics” regarding C.B.C. Distribution v. MLB, a recent decision on who owns baseball statistics, published in the November-December issue of INTA’s The Trademark Reporter.
Gower Report On IP In The UK Released
By Marty Schwimmer on
Her Majesty’s Treasurer has released the Gower Review of Intellectual Property. IPKat took a quick look and notes highlights in the recomendations: NO copyright extension; Fast-track trademark registration process for small business; enhanced safe-harbors against copyright infringement. Attention UK practitioners: after you’ve had a chance to mull, send me links to your comments.
Managing…
Two Lawyers Walk Into A Courtroom . .
By Marty Schwimmer on
Posted in Copyright
Two lawyers walk into a courtroom, the first lawyer goes “your client’s jokebooks infringe the copyrights of my clients, professional comedians such as Jay Leno and Rita Rudner” and the second lawyer says . . ok, it needs work.
p.s. I couldn’t find the complaint on Pacer – if you have a url, send it…
Discussion of Pre-Loaded IPods
By Marty Schwimmer on
As the price of digital-playback devices (i.e. iPods) plumment, we may see more and more ‘pre-loaded’ offerings. Here a discussion of Load ‘N Go, a company that pre-loads iPods with video content (and bundles the related DVD). However the question arises whether it is cricumventing DRM sfotware to do so. Via IP Due Diligence…
WSJ On Google and Copyright
By Marty Schwimmer on
Posted in Copyright, Search Engines
Wall St Journal: “Google Search: ‘Copyright‘”
Commentary thereon here.
“Yahoo And Reuters Want You To Work For Their News Service?
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Posted in Copyright
NY Times: “Have Camera Phone? Yahoo and Reuters Want You to Work for Their News Service“:
“Hoping to turn the millions of people with digital cameras and camera phones into photojournalists, Yahoo and Reuters are introducing a new effort to showcase photographs and video of news events submitted by the public.”
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