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Die Kartellamtsermittlungen gegen die Vermarkter IP Deutschland und SevenOne Media werden eingestellt. Doch RTL und ProSiebenSat.1 trifft es äußerst hart: Zusammen müssen sie ein Bußgeld von über 200 Millionen Euro zahlen. Die Details zum Rekord-Buß
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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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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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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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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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And so YouTube became a massive lawsuit electromagnet, attracting legal challenges from across the country and around the world. Google has maintained that most complaints should fall under the DMCA's Safe Harbor provision—meaning that a web site oper
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Cablevision has found some friends in the network DVR case which it lost earlier this year in court: Several trade bodies and lobby groups, including USTelecom, which represents AT&T and Verizon, the Consumer Electronics Association, CTIA, and the Electro
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he Commission unveiled on 9 March a consolidated text of the modernised "Television without Frontiers" Directive. After a first reading in the European Parliament and the Council, there is now broad agreement with the Commission about the future legal fra
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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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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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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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Our goal was to take that to the next level by facilitating collaboration with Apple. And we wanted to make sure to differentiate the brands in a way that could work for both companies and not confuse people, since our products combine both web access an
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BT's most basic broadband package BT Total Broadband Package 1, for example, has a 2GB monthly 'usage guideline'. This would be reached after 20 hours of viewing. The software is also likely to transfer data even when not being used. The Venice system is
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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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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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It’s likely, then, that the networks (and Viacom) would not make their YouTube-like venture exclusive, which raises the question: why do it? If Movielink, which is faltering and beset by stronger rivals that offer the same, if not better, movies, serv
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Under the amendment, product placement would be banned from news and current affairs programs, children’s programs and documentaries, but permitted in movies, series and sports broadcasts. Also part of the directive, there were fears that “TV-like”
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Aus der EU-Richtlinie "Fernsehen ohne Grenzen" wird die neue Richtlinie für audiovisuelle Mediendienste. 2005 legte die EU-Kommission einen Entwurf vor. Der kommt nun samt Änderungsvorschlägen ins Parlament. Im ersten Halbjahr 2007 wird mit einer Einig
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Europas Medienkonzernen drohen strenge Regeln bei der Ausstrahlung von Programmen ausländischer EU-Anbieter. 13 der 26 EU-Staaten fordern, die Ausstrahlung von einem nationalen Erlaubnisvorbehalt abhängig zu machen. Dem wollen die TV-Anbieter nicht tate
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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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French production house Flach Film has filed a suit against Google US and its French division Google France in a commercial court in Paris.They say the film has been “downloaded” 50,000 times (Google doesn’t tally the number of downloads, so they’
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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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- Be clear and conspicuous - Display disclosures prior to purchase - Have no distractions to disclosures - Repeat the disclosures if necessary - Any audio disclosures must have adequate volume - Video disclosures must appear for a sufficient length of tim
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Das TMG soll dabei die technischen und wirtschaftlichen Aspekte von Webseiten regeln, der neue RStV schafft Vorschriften über die journalistische Seite, wird also hauptsächlich Fragen regeln, die die Inhalte der Telemedien betreffen.
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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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Today, EMI will announce a deal with Gotuit, meaning that videos from Coldplay, David Bowie, Robbie Williams, Gorillaz, Kylie Minogue, Lily Allen, Janet Jackson, OK GO!, Fat Boy Slim and hundreds more top artists will be available on their site, but not Y
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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.
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This is the YouTube curse: If a clip gets a lot of viewers, it immediately falls under scrutiny -- and if it's copyrighted material, as is often the case, the clip may well be removed, leaving useless links and frustrated viewers in its wake.
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RA Bahr lässt nunmehr Videocasts produzieren (siehe sein bisheriges Podcasting-Blog). Alle anderthalb Monate soll ein neues Video erscheinen. Das hängt wohl damit zusammen, dass die Videos professionell produziert werden, wie Ihr gleich sehen werdet, we
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Most of YouTube Inc.'s agreements with record labels don't address royalties for music publishers, who control the copyrights to the words and music underlying the recordings. YouTube or its partners must locate parties ranging from studios to actors, and
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A US company that shut down its website because it was overwhelmed by millions of people looking for YouTube has sued the online video-sharing portal.
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YouTube isn't the alternative to rampant piracy; it's the enabler of it. If Google isn't successful in the current negotiations, it would be a huge and expensive embarrassment for the company - and, one assumes, could scuttle the YouTube deal entirely.
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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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What’s interesting here is that Bayern president Karl-Heinz Rummenigge is complaining about footage taken by the fans themselves, not professionally created videos. He claims that access to these clips on YouTube is harming the team’s own video site,
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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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The principle of copyright is this. It is a tax on readers for the purpose of giving a bounty to writers. The tax is an exceedingly bad one; it is a tax on one of the most innocent and most salutary of human pleasures; and never let us forget, that a tax
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In a move that’s deeply irritating some of the channel’s biggest fans, clips from The Daily Show, The Colbert Report and South Park have been removed from YouTube today following a DMCA from Viacom’s Comedy Central.
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NetResult finds the damaging infringements and deals with the misuse of your content online. The NetResult 3 Step Process provides a highly successful and cost-effective service to monitor and enforce your commercial rights online.
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If you own a domain name, you are responsible for it and everything copyright related that is posted and happens on it. You MUST be the master of your own domain. If you are not able to be, you will be liable to any infringing acts on the domains you own.
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YouTube hat Paramount die Userdaten von Uploadern ausgehändigt, die fragliches Material hochgeladen haben. Der User wurde verklagt und YouTube hat einen Präzedenzfall geschaffen: Verklagt die User nicht uns!
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You may be watching YouTube, but YouTube is watching you too. YouTube actively worked with Paramount, suggesting that YouTube is very willing to work with content owners and users shouldn't expect protection from the site.
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The European Commission proposal would require websites and mobile phone services that feature video images to conform to standards laid down in Brussels.
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Instead it’s two smaller players - Bolt.com and Grouper - that face the wrath of Universal’s lawyers and a possible $150,000 in damages for every infringement.
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it seems that YouTube aren’t going after these sites at the moment. And if they did, you’ve got to wonder where the line will be drawn: if a commercial blog posts a YouTube video, are they also breaking the ToS?
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The patent basically covers uploading a photo and associating it with someone you are connected to on an online social network. Das wird ein schönes Problem für das StudiVZ werden, wenn die das Patent verfolgen.
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RTL und Sat1 wollen laut Shift TV verhindern, dass Internetnutzer mittels eines Online-Videorekorders ihre Programme aufzeichnen können. Eine endgültige, abschließende Entscheidung im anhaltenden Rechtsstreit stehe aber noch aus.
