Though Twitter said it will remove content without permission from the account holder, the company said that it would make efforts to notify users when their tweets are blocked or removed. Twitter has posted a set of guidelines designed to help...
One of the RIAA's biggest complaints is the artifical limit on complaints a copyright holder can make. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is urging Google to make some changes to their copyright infringement report system.
Before this month Google only reported on government requests to take down copyrighted information, but starting in May they started reporting on copyright holder's requests. Google receives more than 250,000 requests to take down URLs accused of...
For instance, the Digital Millennial Copyright Act of 1998 requires websites to remove links to fraudulently obtained material when the copyright holder requests it, and this provision has already been successfully invoked millions of times.
Google cites one big setback created by an opt-in system: "Orphan works," or novels whose copyright holder isn't clear, would likely never be digitized and thus may be lost completely. There are three major categories of books, as far as...
From what I've learned (and these official comments reinforce) is that the burden to have in-copyright content removed from a video search engine is that of the copyright holder. Om Malik has an interesting post about something we've mentioned here...
They are useful for when a page is down or for a copyright holder wants to see if someone has stolen and cloaked their content to feed to a spider. If a publisher chooses, then -- and only then for books that are in copyright -- will
An organization digitizing a work must have the permission from the copyright holder if the material is not in the public domain. At the option of the copyright holder, copyrighted content may be distributed through a Creative Commons license...
More weight is applied to the economic impact on the copyright holder and the amount of material used in proportion to the whole. Yes, they scan all the book but they show little without explicit permission (for more, see our past Another Google...
It puts portions of books online, with the publisher or copyright holder deciding if they want to let people see a lot or small text snippets. The organization didn't seem to mind having members told at a conference last June that they should...
Many publishers say that Google does not have the right even to scan a copyrighted book -- they argue that making a digital copy of a volume for any commercial purpose requires the permission of the copyright holder.
First suit against a trademark holder over the right to use its terms in meta tags. In the right circumstances, image search engines don't violate copyright and using another company's trademarks in meta tags isn't infringement, two separate court...
FindSounds declines to offer advice on the fair use of these files, though it will remove links to copyrighted sounds at the request of the copyright holder. The site's copyright policy is forthright in stating that while all of the sounds it makes...
Google was reacting to a complaint made under provisions of the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which requires search engines to remove links to pages if a copyright holder claims the pages infringe upon their rights.
The metatags use only so much of the marks as reasonably necessary and nothing is done in conjunction with them to suggest sponsorship or endorsement by the trademark holder. That act suddenly changes the situation from trying to help ensure that...
Also, note that at the very end, the ability for people to easily find a trademark holder's site via search engines plays an important role. By Danny Sullivan Editor, Search Engine Watch http://searchenginewatch.com/ Copyright (c) 2001 INT Media...
Also, note that at the very end, the ability for people to easily find a trademark holder's site via search engines plays an important role. By Danny Sullivan Editor, Search Engine Watch http://searchenginewatch.com/ Copyright (c) 2001 INT Media...
