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Obwohl er Google bereits im Juni aufgefordert habe, die insgesamt vier Videos zurückzuziehen, sei das letzte davon erst diese Woche gelöscht worden. Nach Angaben des spanischen Amtes für Datenschutz droht den Tätern für die Aufnahme und Verbreitung d
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A trio of intrepid researchers from the University of California-Riverside decided to see just how often a P2P user might be tracked by content owners. Their startling conclusion: "naive" users will exchange data with such "fake users" 100 percent of the
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Vergütungssätze Video on Demand / Video zu Informations- und Präsentationszwecken
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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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Der erste Prozess in den USA um Musikpiraterie im Internet ist mit einer hohen Geldstrafe für die Angeklagte ausgegangen. Die alleinerziehende Mutter muss 220.000 Dollar zahlen, weil sie 24 Songs illegal verbreitet hatte.
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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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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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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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Das Bundesverfassungsgericht folgte dem im Wesentlichen. Zwar dürfe der Gesetzgeber grundsätzlich von KEF-Empfehlungen abweichen, jedoch nur aus Gründen, die vor der Rundfunkfreiheit Bestand hätten. Dazu zählten im engeren Sinne die Angemessenheit de
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Some leaked emails at the MediaDefender-Defenders has granted The Pirate Bay the proof it needed to file charges against several media companies. These emails prove that some major record labels and film production and distribution companies have hired p
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This Report provides the results of our study of digital rights management (DRM) technologies in use in the Canadian marketplace and their implications for consumer privacy. We have defined “DRM” in this Report to mean “a system, comprising techn
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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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Jugendschutz.net", die zentrale Stelle für die Einhaltung des Jugendschutzes im Internet, hatte in den vergangenen Monaten in mehr als 100 Fällen indizierte, zum Hass aufstachelnde Videos bei "YouTube" abgemahnt, ohne dass die Firma diese Filme aus ihre
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Mit Blick auf Aktivitäten deutscher Unternehmen, eigene TV-Angebote im Internet zu planen oder zu etablieren („Web-TV“ oder „IP-TV“), hat Norbert Schneider, Vorsitzender der Gemeinsamen Stelle Programm, Werbung, Medienkompetenz der Landesmedienan
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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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This is because we allow global brands and companies to include a message on the music tracks that users download for free, for up to 10 seconds or less on audio. So you download music for free, brands pay for their message and your favourite musicians a
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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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We examine whether, on legal or policy grounds, video services provided over a telephone network should be regulated as a traditional cable service or whether a different approach is warranted. We evaluate the history of cable regulation and the services
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Sevenload bietet seine Dienste ausschließlich für private, nicht gewerbliche Zwecke an. Mit Registrierung verpflichtet sich jeder Nutzer, die Dienste nur für private Zwecke zu nutzen.
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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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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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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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Bitmunk is a place for people from all over the world to buy and sell music, television, and movies. This is the first legal, copyright-aware, peer-to-peer distribution system in the world - and it puts the artists and the fans in control (that means you!
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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,
