Google-owned video-sharing site YouTube has handed Viacom yet another loss in the latest round of a copyright infringement court case that has lasted six years – so far –according to the Hollywood Reporter.
While the $4 million bill wouldn't pose any significant financial damage to Oracle, the filing adds salt to Oracle's wounds following its failed attempt to win damages from Google for copyright and patent infringement.
By agreeing to settle for zero damages, Oracle looks to be tying up loose ends so that it can launch an appeal against the API copyright ruling – where, had it been successful, it had stood to win most damages.
Oracle had previously won a partial victory on the matter of copyright infringement, though the jury remained split on other elements of the case. The patent portion of the trial represented a far less important phase than the copyright matter...
The jurors found that while Google had infringed upon Oracle Java API copyright in certain claims on the case, other claims of infringement made by Oracle regarding documentation were not valid. Oracle Copyright Suit Seeks Billions from Google
The $1 billion Viacom-YouTube copyright case was reopened by an appeals court. The appeals court ruling will be one to watch. In the 2010 ruling, the court ruled that consumers were not likely to be confused.
Court of Appeals has resurrected Viacom's $1 billion copyright infringement suit against video-sharing service YouTube. Judge Jose Cabranes reversed an earlier decision that had protected YouTube from damage claims under the safe harbour provisions...
However, a recent court ruling may be opening doors to a more efficient and effective approach for Google. The MP3Tunes tactic is also in seeming opposition to the Cablevision cloud DVR case, where it was ruled that each user needed to have their...
Copiepresse, a copyright management company for Belgian newspapers, has had a long history of tension with Google. During the court case, Google had stopped showing the Copiepresse sites on the SERP and Google News site, causing more than a little...
Google Belgian Copyright Case Could Set Europe Policy - Bloomberg Swiss Court to Issue Ruling on Google Street View - PCWorld Here's a recap of this week's columns and news stories for the week of Feb.to 26, as reported by Search Engine Watch, as...
The section notice posted at the domains taken down for hosting torrents and a torrent search engine - Torrent-Finder.com goes on to state: "Willful copyright infringement is a federal crime that carries penalties for first time offenders of up to...
Viacom Hires High-Profile Lawyer to Battle YouTube on Copyright By Danny Goodwin Will Tuesday's court ruling impact Google's policy of what information they keep in their search results? Website Changes That Will Hurt Your SEO By Eric Enge
This means that the court has decided that YouTube is protected by the safe harbor of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) against claims of copyright infringement. Nathan Koppel of the WSJ Law Blog observes, "Given the massive amounts of...
A California federal court judge, Judge Howard Lloyd, has thrown out a copyright infringement suit against online video site Veoh. The judge's reasoning was that Veoh is protected by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's (DMCA) safe harbor...
THE SEARCH ENGINE UPDATE Copyright (c) 2007 Incisive Interactive Marketing LLC Australian Court Ruling Could Impact Search - Aussies crack down on illegal Video downloads. You May Target With Trademarks - A US court rules you can use other...
The full bench of the Federal Court, the country's second-highest court, has upheld a lower court ruling that Stephen Cooper, the operator of the Web site in question, as well as Comcen, the Internet service provider that hosted it, were guilty...
This week, news emerged about an agreement between Google and two Belgian author groups that were suing it over copyright issues. Below, a short Q and Assucopie all joined the case after Google posted the Belgian court ruling in late September.
I can't see how the judge could change his opinion,'' she said, certain that the court will uphold the September ruling. In September, Google lost a copyright case filed against it by another With Google News Over Copyright Laws covers how Google...
AFP reports that Google has warned Australia that if they pass certain a new copyright law that it will set the country back to "the pre-Internet era. I believe the issue here is that Australia wants Google to get copyright owners to opt in to...
Last week, Google complied with a Belgian court order and posted the ruling against it in a copyright suit on the home page of Google Belgium and Google Copiepresse thinks the ruling should have gone at the top of the Google News
