Google recently released data that shows government takedown requests by court order are on the rise, and that Google does comply around 45 percent of the time with U.S.requests. In a ruling this week, a German federal court said Google must...
It’s no secret that Google receives thousands of government requests worldwide to takedown content each year, and the search engine reported it doescomply at times. In February, Google filed an appeal in Russia to challenge the censorship of a...
From July to December 2012 Google received 2,285 government requests to remove content from its platforms, an all-time high. Google reported in its bi-annual transparency report that government requested takedowns are up from the first half of last...
YouTube denied Viacom's allegations, saying that it respects the rights of content owners and complies with takedown requests when it gets them. Google-owned video-sharing site YouTube has handed Viacom yet another loss in the latest round of a...
Twitter unveiled a new tweet takedown procedure earlier this month. Twitter users will be able to download every tweet they've ever sent by the year's end. Twitter CEO Dick Costolo revealed the news while speaking at his alma mater, the University...
The site encourages users to take part in governance efforts and make their voices heard through various campaigns aimed at stopping web censorship and takedown efforts. Google has seen itself at the center of a number of government censorship and...
Twitter has posted a set of guidelines designed to help users understand how it handles copyright takedown requests. Under the policy, Twitter said that it will handle takedown requests through a service ticket process.
In August Google began deranking websites that offer "pirated" material, saying that it was basing its reordering on the number of valid Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown requests a website had received.
Earlier this month, Google announced that sites with more DMCA takedown requests would begin ranking lower in search results. Google received almost 6 million URL search removal requests in the last month as copyright holders continue their fight...
The company said that it would be adding a number of criteria to its ranking process which will take into account the number of Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown requests a site has received.
After Google rejected a May 2012 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown request over a photo of himself sticking his tongue out, a minority owner of the Miami Heat has sued the search engine and the blogger responsible for posting the...
In a blog post, the RIAA bemoans Google's polices dealing with copyright infringement takedown requests. It accused Google of deliberately limiting the number of site takedown requests copyright holders can submit.
YouTube may have been aware of infringements prior to takedown notifications, a violation of the DMCA which would possibly nullify the protections, according to Cabranes. The U.S. Court of Appeals has resurrected Viacom's $1 billion copyright...
SOPA aimed to stop that gap with takedown at the DNS level, one of its more hotly contested provisions, and to appear to address concerns surfaced from the debate over COICA s a lot to take in, I know.
But for "for sites that operate entirely outside the U.S.notice and takedown" and private lawsuits are legally difficult to pursue, and are largely ineffective. Last year there was COICA, this year there is PROTECT IP, legislation in the US Senate...
While the coverage is a bit unclear, it sounds like this is more difficult than a US-style DMCA notice-and-takedown regime, in that it appears that upon notice that some content is infringing, Yahoo isn't supposed to just take down that particular...
While the coverage is a bit unclear, it sounds like this is more difficult than a US-style DMCA notice-and-takedown regime, in that it appears that upon notice that some content is infringing, Yahoo isn't supposed to just take down that particular...
In the midst of all of this, Linden Lab got caught in the middle between the warring factions as DMCA takedown notices and counterfilings flew overhead. Despite estimates that virtual goods will become a $10 billion industry this year, it often...
Newspaper Publishers Back Viacom On Copyright Takedown Notices - paidContent Search Engine Optimization Search is Search, Social is Social: Treat Them Separate by Frank Watson SEOs should keep doing the normal things to improve rankings in the SERPs.
The post titled "Making Copyright Work Better" also stated changes would be made to improving reported copyright infringement takedown times - to 24 hours where possible; better Adsense anti-piracy reviews, and experiment making authorized preview...
