The court today reaffirmed an established judicial consensus that the DMCA protects web platforms like Youtube that work with rightsholders and take appropriate steps to remove user-generated content that rightsholders notify them is infringing.
Judge Jose Cabranes reversed an earlier decision that had protected YouTube from damage claims under the safe harbour provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). YouTube may have been aware of infringements prior to takedown...
Ambiguity in the definitions of domestic vs.foreign sites and “facilitates or enables”, to the extent that even sites compliant with DMCA safe harbor provisions may still be vulnerable. Private right of action that may enable entities to bypass the...
Google fought fairly well in that legal battle, and in 2010 it was ruled that YouTube was "protected by the safe harbor of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Google has finally reached a deal with a group of music publishers who filed a...
In June, the company promised to appeal after it lost its battle with Google-owned YouTube when a judge decided that the video-sharing was protected by the safe harbor of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) against claims of copyright...
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. Sam Diaz of ZDNet points out, "the YouTube case actually proves that 'the...
Techdirt reports that one of the main arguments being made by Universal was that Veoh didn't have DMCA safe harbor protection because it changed the format of the video and made smaller chunks than the original.
The blog post, "Walmart Sends DMCA Notice to SearchAllDeals, TechCrunch" on Search Engine Watch's Blog was extremely interesting on several levels. First, I had no idea what a DMCA was. YouTube/Google is using the DMCA to try to protect themselves...
The judge's reasoning was that Veoh is protected by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's (DMCA) safe harbor provisions. Today's Top Story: SageLewis Get Links Now: Make a Difference, Make Connections LINK LOVE Want to solve the link building...
The judge's reasoning was that Veoh is protected by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's (DMCA) safe harbor provisions. Veoh has a strong DMCA policy, takes active steps to limit incidents of infringement on its website and works diligently to...
Google and YouTube respect the importance of intellectual property rights, and not only comply with their safe harbor obligations under the DMCA, but go well above and beyond what the law requires. Viacom, in turn, said, "This response ignores the...
DMCA Safe Harbor Provisions http://www.chillingeffects.org/dmca512/ Nevertheless, the potential for the DMCA to be abused is real. Making a DMCA complaint is easy and needn't involve a lawyer. One solution to all this would be to drop the portion...
