We’ve spoken previously of YouTube, the ‘community’ video site. It now reports that it has been asked by NBC to remove the ‘Lazy Sunday: Chronicles of Narnia’ parody video first shown on NBC’s Saturday Night Live.
The video first appeared on SNL on December 17. The media reported high numbers of downloads of the
Guns And Roses
Counterfeit Chic on the copyrightability of a bullet-proof rose.
Maybe NYC Can Find A Copyright Lawyer To Advise Them
Sale Of ‘Pre-Loaded’ Used IPods
L’Oreal Obtains Protection For Scent In France
Something like a holy grail for the perfume industry has been achieved: Agenda Inc. reports that L’Oreal has persuaded a French Court to provide ‘authorial rights’ to one of its scents. I look forward to French law bloggers discussing this case.
UPDATE: IPkat says that this decision on scent stinks.
Perfect 10, By Filing DMCA Complaint, Provides Pretense For Running Image Of Woman In Lingerie
Perfect 10 takedown demand to Google here. A bizarre document. If you use some of the model’s names as Google search terms, (ALENA DRAZNA for example) then Google helpfully links to the DMCA complaint at the bottom of the search results. No, that is not how I learned of this, I learned of it from
Calcanis on YouTube
Calcanis discusses YouTube: ‘Building a Business On Copyright Infringement.”
Background here.
World Newspaper Org Wants Cut
Google Cache Found To Be Fair Use
Strange case. Website owner sues Google for copyright infringement based on its practice of providing links to cached versions of his website. There is no explanation why author did not use tages to tell Google to exclude his site. The Court pointedly commented that if plaintiff had merely used such tags, there would be no
Do You Know Where Your Website Design Has Been?
I suppose that this disclaimer should be applied to most of my postings but to this one in particular: I point to items of interest that usually don’t provide all the information necessary to come to any sort of legal conclusion (in other words I’m not saying who’s right and who’s wrong):
Here is Adaptive