In enacting the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Congress effectively balanced the public interest in free expression with the rights of copyright holders. Google-owned video-sharing site YouTube has handed Viacom yet another loss in the latest...
The Department is aware of the concerns raised by rights holders that this has not had the impact that they hoped, and, together with industry, we now need to review the effect of the technical change made by Google and consider our options," said...
Claims will processed in the order they are received and copyright holders will be required to provide a number of materials, including proof of ownership and permission to file the claim, as well as direct links to the infringing tweets...
Google received almost 6 million URL search removal requests in the last month as copyright holders continue their fight against sites offering copyrighted content for download. The requests are made to Google under the Digital Millennium Copyright...
Google has announced an update to its search ranking algorithm that will demote sites serving pirated content, in a move that should please copyright holders who have long called for this move. Only copyright holders know if something is authorized...
It accused Google of deliberately limiting the number of site takedown requests copyright holders can submit. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is urging Google to make some changes to their copyright infringement report system.
As they continue to toe the line between search engine and publisher/content curator with the launch of Knowledge Graph features, Google may well expect further legal battles and complaints from copyright holders and creators of original content.
In a December 13th post called It’s Still a Blacklist and It’s Still a Disaster, the EFF pointed out that the bill still gave the Attorney General and copyright holders the right to obtain blacklist orders and offered new ambiguity as to how the...
Two bills currently making their way through congress -- SOPA and PIPA -- give the US government and copyright holders extraordinary powers including the ability to hijack DNS and censor search results (and this is even without so much as a proper...
But RightsFlow will go further: It will tally how much is owed to copyright holders and can even expedite the payment. That offer allowed rights holders to get payment directly from Google based on how much their copyrighted content was used on...
While Pauley approved this tactic, he also ruled that MP3Tunes would have to remove any files or links when copyright holders reported that those links violated their copyright. The MP3Tunes tactic is also in seeming opposition to the Cablevision...
True, artists and right holders deserve to have their intellectual property protected, but not with laws that can be easily applied beyond their protection. Last year there was COICA, this year there is PROTECT IP, legislation in the US Senate...
Google blocks access to content from book publishers, specifically, books with no copyright holders. Microsoft today filed a formal complaint in Brussels accusing Google of curating a monopoly of the search market and unfairly promoting their own...
The decision reaffirms the established judicial consensus that online services like YouTube are protected when they work cooperatively with copyright holders to help them manage their rights online. David Lieberman of USA TODAY says, "Entertainment...
The DMCA balances the rights of copyright holders and the need to protect the internet as an important new form of communication. When Viacom sued Google in March for $1 billion as a result of alleged copyright infringement on YouTube, it accused...
After a great deal of unproductive negotiation, and remedial efforts by ourselves and other copyright holders, YouTube continues in its unlawful business model. Someone is suing Google via YouTube for $1 billion for massive copyright infringement.
Opt-out through things like robots.txt is an effective way to protect rights holders plus benefit the public as a whole. In terms of copyright, Google stresses that it generally sticks to what's known as fair use, though the post doesn't use...
Here, protected content is being displayed a) in modified form; b) more often than not in its entirety (i.e.not restricted to mere snippets); and c) without copyright holders' permission. But displaying it in the cache for everyone to see...
Google CEO Eric Schmidt told reporters at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that this would depend on permission from copyright holders. When I first learned about the Google Library program (not the same thing as Google Book Search for...
Creating an easy to use index of books is fair use under copyright law and supports the purpose of copyright: to increase the awareness and sales of books directly benefiting copyright holders. The Association of American Publishers (AAP) today...
