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YouTube Video Identification will help copyright holders identify their works on YouTube. We have worked with Google to develop one-of-a-kind technology that can recognize videos based on a variety of factors. As its Beta status indicates, our Video Ident
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Als Konsequenz sehen die Kölner Richter nur eine letzte Möglichkeit zur Verhinderung wiederholter Urheberrechtsverletzungen: Download-Hoster müssen manuell einschlägige Linklisten, auf denen die Download-Links veröffentlicht werden, nach Rechtsverlet
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Here’s how BayTSP works. A client gives it a list of titles (movies, TV shows, etc.) to monitor. BayTSP’s automated hardware then sniffs around major P2P sites, IRC, Usenet groups, public FTP sites and web sites and reports back its findings. For P2P
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Earlier this summer, the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) researched the extent of copyrighted material being hosted on Google Video and released a “Top 50” list of apparently copyrighted movies. In the latest “spot check” of the site condu
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Fun for lawyers ;)
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Here's the background. The MPAA and MovieLabs, its R&D arm, spent months testing a dozen software programs designed to identify copyrighted videos from brief samples of their data. Each "fingerprinting" program was fed about 1,000 test files of wide-rangi
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Der Richter machte laut Rapidshare deutlich, dass die GEMA es versäumt habe, die Maßnahmen zu nennen, mit denen Rapidshare Rechtsverletzungen verhindern könne. "Wie das Gericht bestätigte, ergreifen wir weitreichende Maßnahmen, um das geistige Eigent
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Dr. House Folgen kostenlos auf webnews.de schauen!": Mit Aussagen wie diesen warb die Holtbrinck Ventures-Beteiligung Webnews in den vergangenen Wochen im Internet für illegale TV-Downloads, die von Usern auf der Website Webnews.de verlinkt wurden. Entsp
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Universal Music Group has sued video sharing site Veoh for “massive copyright infringement”. You’ll remember that UMG threatened Veoh with a lawsuit in August, and Veoh pre-emptively filed against the music label claiming that it hadn’t infringed
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But Google’s moves in Japan have not soothed local concerns on copyright abuse, which mirror those elsewhere. Instead, some are already criticizing the video fingerprinting technology Google this week said would be online by September: AFP” title="AF
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ntellectual Property is a critical component of our present and future success in the global economy. The UK's economic competitiveness is increasingly driven by knowledge-based industries, especially in manufacturing, science-based sectors and the creati
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Audio Remix is very easy to use. Only three steps are necessary to change the audio track of your video: Choose a genre and artist Select the track you would like to use Click “Publish” to insert the new track into your video This process only takes
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In what will put a damper on other similar websites as well as happy viewers, The Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. (MPAA) has filed lawsuits against stream Indexers YouTVpc.com and Peekvid.com for simply linking to infringing content. [via New
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We are beginning tests on an automated system to identify and match specific videos. The technology extracts key visual aspects of uploaded videos and compares that information against reference material provided by copyright holders. Achieving the accura
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people trading huge amounts of DVDs, TV shows, warez and porn. Three terabytes of new content every single day, to be precise. Welcome to Usenet, the original piracy hotbed.
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The Associated Press is stepping up efforts to monitor unauthorized use of its content. The company will announce a deal Thursday with Attributor Corp. to fingerprint AP copy that can then be traced across the internet. This phase covers text only but oth
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Google’s image search results don’t constitute direct infringement when copyrighted images show up in the results, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today, reports IP Democracy.
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share links to all your favourite tv shows, music videos and anime online!
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# If YouTube visitors were looking specifically for Viacom copyrighted material, YouTube should have lost this traffic once it was pulled (which it clearly didn’t). # The overlap between YouTube and Viacom property visitors experienced a slight lift in
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In summary, we found that of the 6,725 most popular videos on YouTube, only 621 had been removed due to copyright requests. Views to the removed videos made up less than 6% of all recorded YouTube views.
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What if, instead, Viacom told YouTube that they could host clips from their shows, but reserved the hi-rez versions for themselves, and maybe they could have negotiated a link from the YouTube low-rez scan to the one served on their site. Anything would b
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The New York Times dubs it "content-recognition software"; others call it video fingerprinting. The idea is to create a kind of digital dragnet that would allow copyright owners to prevent snippets of their work from being uploaded to video-sharing sites,
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YouTube's "proposition that they will only protect copyrighted content if there's a business deal in place is unacceptable," a spokesman for Viacom Inc., owner of MTV Networks and Comedy Central, said this week. One media industry source likened Yo
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News Corp.'s (NWSa.N: Quote, Profile , Research) online social network MySpace said on Monday it is offering free software tools to let media companies block the uploading of unauthorized video clips, expanding on an earlier program to block unauthorized
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The company, in an effort to bring up money for this, has sold itself to video search and aggregation site GoFish, for about $30 million in stock (GoFish is traded on OTC board). UMG sued video sharing sites Grouper and Bolt.com for allowing users to swa
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"YouTube needs to prove that it will implement its filtering technology across its online platform. It’s proven it can do it when it wants to," Mr Zucker told the Financial Times, referring to the site’s controls to block pornography and hate speech.
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Following the recent news that Fox subpoenaed YouTube to identify a user uploading copyrighted content, I thought it'd be useful to collate info about litigation against the major video-sharing sites. Below, details on lawsuits and subpoenas against Veoh,
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But, they also bought a way to capitalize on the very real video sharing, social networking, community of interest trend that is truly just beginning. Can YouTube survive and prosper without bootleg content? It is certainly going to be a struggle. If the
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YouTube ... has begun removing more than 100,000 unauthorized clips belonging to Viacom – everything from snippets of Jon Stewart’s “The Daily Show” to Nickelodeon’s “SpongeBob SquarePants.
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Mehr als ein Dutzend europäischer Verwertungsgesellschaften wollen sich nach Informationen der FTD-Schwesterzeitung Les Echos im Laufe dieses Monats treffen, um über ein mögliches gemeinsames Vorgehen gegen Websites wie Youtube, Myspace und Dailymotion
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It was not the first time. NBC Universal has three employees who troll the site every day looking for studio-owned material, and they send more than 1,000 such requests a month to YouTube.
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There are widespread reports today (although annoyingly, few sources) that YouTube has been blocked in Brazil following the court order earlier this week. Model Daniela Cicarelli, you’ll remember, demanded over $100,000 in damages for every day her sex
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The copyright protection system that YouTube promised to develop in response to media company deals may be delayed. The Financial Times says YouTube promised in September that the technology would be available by the new year. YouTube denied the promise
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A Brazilian court ordered the popular video sharing service YouTube, a unit of Internet search provider Google Inc. (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile , Research), to be shut down until it removes a celebrity sex video from its site, a judicial clerk said on Thursd
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A federal judge in Texas has ruled that it is unlawful to provide a hyperlink to a Webcast if the copyright owner objects to it. U.S. District Judge Sam Lindsay in the northern district of Texas granted a preliminary injunction against Robert Davis, wh
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They wanted YouTube to automatically screen all uploads to see whether they contain copyrighted content (something YouTube is already working on), post a Japanese language warning about respecting copyright and delete any users who had posted copyrighted
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Right now, in the realm of online video, the assumption is that a videoblog with RSS is content FREE for the taking. The number of videoblog directories that are taking advantage of RSS as a handy way to harvest content for sites who’s soul purpose is o
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a content rights clearing service for content owners and content users. This Philips service helps both the entertainment industry and the end-user to optimally sell, share and distribute content with respect for copyrights in an easy, controlled and aut
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Whether linking to infringing materials can itself create copyright liability is still a somewhat murky question,” says EFF senior attorney Fred von Lohmann. In this case, QuickSilverScreen.com did remove the links, sort of, by posting the URL’s in co
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Won't selling songs as unprotected MP3s lead to rampant illegal copying? No. Because there's already rampant illegal copying. Most unauthorized copying is done either through online file-sharing networks or by burning CDs for friends.
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But now it looks like Dailymotion is cleaning up its act. Several sites that collate copyrighted clips on Dailymotion, such as the Simpson's-centric allsimps.com, have shut down. And searching for several different types of copyrighted material on Dailymo
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The site now performs frequent purges of television shows and other proprietary content uploaded by users. But those forbidden files can still be had. They've largely migrated to DailyMotion.com, another video-uploading site that replicates YouTube's mode
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The widely-used and much reviled term “user-generated content” implies that somebody is making something. But the dirty little secret of “user-generated” sites like YouTube and MySpace is that much of the content is not made by the users themselve
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Grouper.com, the online video-sharing company owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, has denied charges in a Universal Music Group lawsuit that accuses the company of allowing users to swap pirated music videos.
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YouTube's actions in response to a subpoena it received in May show that it has been keeping tabs on users who post copyrighted material to its site -- and in one case shared the name of a user with lawyers from a Hollywood film studio.
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Welcome to the terror of the Terms of Service world: Whether or not it is a violation of copyright law (which it isn’t, though the lawyers for YouTube seem to assert to the contrary), the view of many is that “fair use” rights can be promised away j
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Universal Music has filed a lawsuit against MySpace, accusing the popular social-networking site of copyright infringement. At issue are the thousands of music videos uploaded by MySpace users. In its complaint filed in the US District Court for the Centr
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So interested, in fact, that he dedicated a Nov. 14 posting on his blog to a motion for summary judgment filed by Tur's lawyers. "To say the stakes are huge would be an understatement," wrote Cuban, who subsequently highlighted an argument made by Tur's l
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Buried in my email this evening I found a cease and desist letter from an attorney at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, representing their client YouTube. We’ve been accused of a number of things: violating YouTube’s Terms of Use, of “tortious inter
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12.5 percent of the equity issued and issuable is subject to escrow for one year to secure certain indemnification obligations. Based on the $1.5 billion amount, that should be about $187.5 million.
