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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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Die Gema fordert von Google Lizenzgebühren für die Videotauschbörse Youtube. Die Gema mahnt zudem Urheberrechtsverstöße bei Youtube ab. Google wurde aufgefordert, Videos mit nicht lizensierter Musik zu löschen.
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Hat sich Google mit YouTube ver-kauft? Schon jetzt ist klar, dass es dort nicht weitergehen kann wie bisher. Der Erfolg der Videoseite fordert Opfer. Regeln für die Veröffentlichung werden nötig - doch so etwas hat schon anderen den Spaß und das Gesch
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Google is frantically making payouts of “tens of millions of dollars” to the content companies. One unnamed film and TV company is receiving $100 million to license its content over a two-year period, according to the report.
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Google can’t catch a break in European courts. An organization of French publishers has filed suit against Google Book search, claiming that violates copyright law, making the same arguments that their U.S. counterparts have made in their lawsuit. This
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Google is “engaged in a frantic round of negotiations” with traditional media companies, even offering tens of millions of dollars in upfront payments to ward off any potential copyright lawsuits. Google CEO Eric Schmidt has met with top execs from CB
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Armed with this kitty of money Youtube approached the media companies with an open checkbook to buy peace. The media companies smelled a transaction when Youtube radically changed their initial 'revenue sharing' offer to one laden with cash.
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So basically, the big TV distributors could pretty easily work out deals with content rightsholders to be everything Youtube wants to be, but have the inside track to get it done quickly since they are already paying money to the rightsholder and this wou
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Google “can spot pirated material very easily, can delete it very easily, can trace the source very easily ... that’s going to make future litigation very easy. ... They know that, we know that.”
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The popular U.S.-based video-sharing Web site YouTube has deleted nearly 30,000 files over copyright concerns after being asked by a group representing Japan's entertainment industry. The Japan Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers, foun
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The problem for YouTube is, blocked content has a way of flowing to other sources, and it will surely take viewers with it. New owners Google find themselves in a tight spot. They either get sued by unhappy content providers, or get abandoned by fans look
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I’m not against commercialization, but I have noticed YouTube becoming much more noisy over recent weeks. What’s changed is that the video site has become a major attractor of eyeballs, and eyeballs equal attention, fame and money.
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YouTube is a hopelessly inefficient way for consumers to steal copyrighted video content off the web. It's well suited to the negligible-attention-span clips that its users post up there, to music videos and to teasers and excerpts from longer (copyrighte
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Es geht los und es ist Warner! Dick Parsons, the chairman of Time Warner, fired a shot across the bows of Google, saying his group would pursue its copyright complaints against the video sharing site YouTube.com.
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If not, then after they go after the little guys to set precedent, they will go after the big guys and their deep pockets.If they can win some judgements saying these little sites are not protected by Safe Harbor rules, then they have all the leverage in
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If no one is going to sue anyone for copyright infringement anymore, maybe you could upload stuff you dont have the rights to and get paid by generous people who want to transfer some dollars via PayPal to you.
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Google (or whomever) should resist falling for the chimera of traffic stats and millions of videos watched. These stats from Hitwise show that while things are not going as well for Google Video, they are not that bad either if they decided to work alone
