It’s been three years since Viacom went after YouTube for the Viacom videos being on the site. Today a judge threw out the lawsuit: Today, the court granted our motion for summary judgment in Viacom’s lawsuit with YouTube. This means that the court has decided that YouTube is protected by the safe harbor of the […]
Last November a document got leaked out, which outlined a new Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) being authored by the Obama administration. The internet part of this is really infuriating: * That ISPs have to proactively police copyright on user-contributed material. This means that it will be impossible to run a service like Flickr or YouTube […]
It was just a year ago we kept hearing news of John McCain using famous songs for his campaign without the express written permission of the copyright holder. It seems like that practice is trickling down through the ranks of the GOP and now we have New Jersey gubernatorial candidate Chris Christie as the latest […]
Judge Richard Posner thinks that should be the case: Expanding copyright law to bar online access to copyrighted materials without the copyright holder’s consent, or to bar linking to or paraphrasing copyrighted materials without the copyright holder’s consent . . . What Posner is arguing is insane. Basically he is saying that if I want […]
Like it or not, copyright infringement is against the law. So what happens when a copyright holder has their content removed from YouTube? Well if you are a Republican you urge your readers to ignore the law: In the meantime, I encourage every reader with a YouTube account to upload this video to YouTube. I […]
It looks like Nicolas Sarkozy’s party has taken lessons from John McCain: U.S. indie band MGMT has threatened to sue French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s party for repeatedly using one if its hit songs without permission, unless the band is fully compensated for its use. The Union pour un Mouvement Populaire party paid a standard €53 […]
McCain’s campaign is all pissy because YouTube is pulling their campaign videos that have DMCA complaints: After seeings its videos repeatedly removed from YouTube, John McCain’s campaign on Monday told the Google-owned video site that its copyright infringement policies are stringent to the point of stifling free speech, and that its lawyers need to revamp […]