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Surprise, Surprise – Viacom Appeals YouTube Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Ruling

By Chris on  From webtvwire.com
Can this actually be classed as news? Let’s face it, Viacom was always going to appeal the decision in the YouTube copyright infringement lawsuit which ended in June. Because it lost. And that’s not right, surely. A Brief History Lesson Viacom first realized it had a serious problem with YouTube in 2005, even before Google acquired the site for $1.65 billion . But it didn’t take serious action until that deal went through. In March 2007, Viacom launched a lawsuit worth $1 billion, with...Read Full Story

Google Wins Copyright Case in Spain

By Niels on  From live.kyero.com
Google announced it had won a major copyright-infringement case in Spain on Thursday, affirming that the Internet giant is not responsible for copyright violations when users post material on its YouTube website. A federal court in Madrid, Spain, found that it is the responsibility of copyright owners – not YouTube, or Google, which owns it – to identify material that infringed copyright, Google said. The ruling mirrors one in the United States earlier this year, when Google won a nasty...Read Full Story

Viacom files appeal against decision in YouTube copyright infringement case – MediaMughals

By mootothemax on  From datetimesign.com
The dispute between the US media conglomerate Viacom and the popular online video sharing portal YouTube is not over yet. Viacom has made an appeal with the US Second Court of Appeals in New York for reconsideration of the judgement announced in June. In June the US District Court ruled the verdict in favour of Google Inc, the owner to YouTube on grounds of the protection from the charges by provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Whereas, Viacom differed on the decision made in...Read Full Story

“Knocked Up” Copyright Infringement Lawsuit

By aishamusic on  From aishamusic.wordpress.com
Hollywood Steals More People’s Copyrights Again Judd Aptow A Repeat Offender The 2007 Universal “ everything is on fire ” Pictures movie “ Knocked Up ” starring Katherine Heigl is the subject of a copyright infringement lawsuit filed last year. In the lawsuit, an author, Rebecca Eckler, contends her preexisting copyrighted 2004 book “ Knocked Up : Confessions of a Hip Mother-To Be” was infringed, down to the book cover. There are overwhelming similarities between the two and knowing...Read Full Story

Viacom to appeal YouTube copyright infringement ruling – Los Angeles Times

By mootothemax on  From datetimesign.com
Viacom Inc. on Wednesday said it has plans to appeal a federal court decision in its copyright infringement case against Google Inc.’s YouTube video website. In June, U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton declared that YouTube had not violated copyright laws because the website promptly removed pirated videos when requested by rights holders such as Viacom. Viacom indicated at the time of the ruling that it would appeal. Its notice to appeal, filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the southern...Read Full Story
Title 18 U.S.C. 2314 provides criminal penalties for any person who "transports in interstate or foreign commerce any goods, wares, merchandise, securities or money, of the value of $5,000 or more, knowing the same to have been stolen, converted or taken by fraud." Petitioner was convicted in Federal District Court of violating, inter alia, 2314, arising from the interstate transportation of "bootleg" phonorecords that were manufactured and...  
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So the judge in the case may establish clearer guidelines as to the specific limits on what may be quoted under fair use. Powered by Yahoo! Answers. This entry was posted in Game Copying Software by bobg. Bookmark the ...  
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From Poynter Six weeks after the AP and other investors launched a licensing organization to collect fees from aggregators, the AP has filed a lawsuit against Meltwater News, which bills itself as “more than a traditional media monitoring service.” AP CEO Curley calls it “parasitic distribution service” that is undercutting AP’s business by providing its content to Meltwater clients without paying for it. The AP says Meltwater is taking its...  
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Kanye West and Jay-Z have responded to a copyright infringement lawsuit filed against them by Syl Johnson, questioning whether the veteran soul star's work is actually protected by US law. Johnson filed suit against the duo in October (2011) after hearing his song Different Strokes sampled on their track The Joy, ...  
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After a federal judge slashed Oracle's record $1.3 billion copyright infringement verdict against SAP five months ago, Oracle and its lawyers faced the litigation equivalent of being contestants on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire": Does Big Red ...  
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In a slightly odd reaction to the public anti-SOPA backlash, movie studio Paramount has decided to try to open a dialogue discussing copyright infringement.  The odd part is that they chose law professors to dialogue with.  Details are in the article from the Chronicle of Higher Education. The article suggests that the strategy of talking [...]  
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Michael Arrington / Uncrunched: VEVO Execs Must Face Criminal Charges For Copyright Infringement  —  VEVO, a music label joint venture, got caught with its pants down by TechCrunch's Jason Kincaid - They illegally streamed a NFL game at a party they hosted at the Sundance festival.  Yes, this is just too deliciously, hypocritically juicy.  
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