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- The legal ownership of a "work," which can take any of the following forms: written text, program source code, graphics images, sculpture, music, sound recording, motion picture, pantomime, choreograph and...
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- EMI Music spins Google YouTube song and dance
- Just as Internet Kings Chad Hurley and Eric Schmidt were on stage last week at the Wall Street Journal's All Things Digital conference spinning YouTube is still working on video copyright protection tools, so no need for multibillion dollar Viacom infringement claims, Hurley was also unleashing a we're copyright owners friends combo pitch in conjunction with...
- Tags: YouTube, Video, Music, Google, Copyright
- Blog posts 2007-06-03
- YouTube: What MySpace can teach Google about copyright
- Will Google CEO Schmidt's "wait for the tools" banter on media giant Viacom's $1 billion copyright infringement legal claim at the Wall Street Journal's All Things Digital conference this week be his famous last words?SEE: Google CEO tows Google line at D5Think Schmidts' recent "Big Brother" musings reflect a Google disregard...
- Tags: YouTube, Video, MySpace, Google, Copyright, Content
- Blog posts 2007-06-01
- Google's YouTube: Is NBC copyright lawsuit near?
- Will NBC be the next major media company to sue Google’s YouTube for “massive copyright infringement”? YouTube: What is NBC’s end game? I asked in January, citing Rick Cotton, NBC Universal general counsel, on the NBC-YouTube “difficult balancing act.”YouTube class action lawsuit: Has YOUR copyright been infringed? is the latest...
- Tags: YouTube, Legal, Google, Copyright, Content
- Blog posts 2007-05-06
- YouTube class action lawsuit: Has YOUR copyright been infringed?
- "HAS YOUR COPYRIGHT BEEN INFRINGED BY YOUTUBE?"So asks Proskauer Rose LLP and Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP, the law firms prosecuting the action of The Football Association Premier League Limited, et. al. v. YouTube, Inc., et al., a copyright infringement class action pending in the United States District Court...
- Tags: YouTube, Google, Copyright, Content
- Blog posts 2007-05-05
- Why Google threatens Internet, not Viacom
- Aaron Cohen, Bolt CEO, told me in February that the DMCA puts an “undue burden on copyright holders to enforce their copyrights.”He also told me that “companies that use safe harbor to host a significant amount of copyright material risk litigation.”(Universal Music vs. MySpace, Grouper, Bolt, YouTube?)Right, on both counts....
- Tags: YouTube, Google, Copyright, Video, Content
- Blog posts 2007-05-01
- Google's YouTube is DMCA takedown culprit, NOT Viacom
- The Electronic Frontier Foundation EEF is having a good week, rallying support for a Viacom slap on the wrist cum slap on the back in the YouTube takedown notices affair."Case Studies in Fair Use Abuse," New Tee Vee, and "YouTube is Not a Crime," Compiler, are representative blogosphere trumpeting of...
- Tags: YouTube, Video, Google, Copyright, Content
- Blog posts 2007-04-25
- Will Google follow Viacom's lead?
- The Electronic Frontier Foundation applauds Viacom today for standing up for upfront “fair use” rights of YouTubers.Responding to Viacoms willingness to take steps to protect the free speech rights of those who post videos to YouTube and similar video sharing sites, the Electronic Frontier Foundation EFF and Stanford Law Schools...
- Tags: YouTube, Video, Legal, Google Software Applications, Google, Culture, Copyright, Content, Business Models
- Blog posts 2007-04-23
- How Google has jumped the shark, big time
- Is Google getting defensive?When the Googler in Chief takes to competitor trash talking in public, its well-honed Googley public goodwill strategy is at risk. Google will be a monopoly I predicted earlier in the month. Upon the Google announcement of its acquisition of DoubleClick Friday, I underscored: Google: $3.1...
- Tags: YouTube, Wall Street, Video, Microsoft, Legal, Google Software Applications, Google, Copyright, Business Models, Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-04-17
- Google's big, bad risk
- The real story in Yahoo’s feather in the cap multi-year exclusive sponsored search and contextual ads agreement with Viacom Web properties announced today? No, it is not that it is a $1 billion YouTube lawsuit slap in the face to Google, it is that it puts Google’s entire raison...
- Tags: YouTube, Self-Promotion, Search Advertising, Search, Internet Data, Google Software Applications, Google Ads, Google, Culture, Copyright, Content, Business Models, Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-04-10
- Google News is NOT newspaper driven: Zell vs. Schmidt
- Poor Google?The outpouring of support for the $150 billion market cap company that is oft cited as the most influential corporation in a generation whenever anyone dares to discuss the fairness, or not, of the business model that fuels its over-sized market returns is as surreal as the very public...
- Tags: Content, Advertising, YouTube, Video, Search, Search Advertising, Newspapers, Media, Google, Copyright
- Blog posts 2007-04-09
- Google: To pay or not to pay?
- Agence France-Presse AFP, a global news agency based in Paris, has settled its lawsuit against Google Inc. allowing posting of news and photos from AFP journalists at Google properties, reports the Associated Press.BUT, to pay or not to pay, that is NOT the Google question!Google does not believe in paying...
- Tags: YouTube, Google, Copyright, Content, Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-04-06
- YouTube: Why Google is running scared
- Google’s trademark Googley super confidence is no where to be seen in its in-house litigation counsel’s blustery quid pro quo Washington Post retort to Viacom general counsel Michael Fricklas’s prior op-ed.While defiant, Michael Kwun is pithy, to a fault. It is ironic that his indignant “reply” to Viacom reads more...
- Tags: YouTube, Web 2.0, Video, User-Generated Content, Google, Copyright, Content, Business Models
- Blog posts 2007-03-30
- Google news and views, Web 2.0 showcase: NEW at Digital Markets!
- Readers of this Digital Markets Blog know I am passionate about two things:Google and Web 2.0!To complement my ongoing, in-depth, exclusive reporting and analysis of all things Google and Web 2.0, I am authoring two new series going forward:1) Web 2.0 Showcase and 2) Google News and ViewsWeb 2.0 Showcase...
- Tags: YouTube, Web 2.0, Video, User-Generated Content, Media, Google, Copyright, Content, Business Models, Amateur Content, Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-03-30
- Will defendant Google bite the copyright infringement bullet?
- GOOGLE HEADS: YouTube seized the opportunities digital technology provides to obtain creative works legally. GOOGLE TAILS: YouTube sought its fortunes by brazenly exploiting the infringing potential of digital technology.Which way will the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York $1 billion ‘coin toss” fall?On September...
- Tags: Network technology, TVs, YouTube Inc., Digimarc Corp., Google Inc., DWM, Bruce Davis
- Blog posts 2007-03-13
- Viacom brings the hate
- Today Viacom brought a lawsuit against the popular Google property YouTube for $1 billion dollars in damages, citing that the website intentionally violated its copyright. The claim states that YouTube has hosted nearly 160,000 unauthorized clips of their programming.Ill be writing more about this later as more facts become available,...
- Tags: Viacom Inc., lawsuit
- Blog posts 2007-03-13
- Google beefs up legal team in wake of subpoenas
- “Google’s legal team is growing!” Google proudly announces to prospective new legal hires.No surprise, Google CEO Eric Schmidt expressed frustration earlier in the week that media company negotiations entail being “sued to death."Google seeks “motivated individuals who have a passion for providing top-notch support in the area of subpoena compliance.”Google’s...
- Tags: Content, Movies, Copyright, YouTube, Video, Government, Legal, Google, Business Models, Media
- Blog posts 2007-03-08
- Google vs Old Media: Who needs YouTube?
- Who needs YouTube? That is the $1.65 billion dollar online video question. Google CEO Eric Schmidt confidently let it be known this week that every mainstream professional video content producer does, in very Googley take it or leave it terms. Vicaom does not believe it needs YouTube, however,...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Media, Advertising, Culture, Google, Video, YouTube, TV, Television, Google Software Applications, Copyright, Content
- Blog posts 2007-03-08
- Why Google will never pay for content
- I hold an MBA from New York University Stern School of Business. No MBA necessary, however, to grasp the American way, the American capitalist way that is: You get what you pay for! Why then does Wall Street darling, $140 billion market cap, 29% profit margin Google wantonly “make...
- Tags: Advertising, Brands, Business Models, Click Fraud, Content, Copyright, Google, Google Software Applications, Marketing, Profits, ROI, Search, Search Advertising, Video, Wall Street, Web 2.0, YouTube
- Blog posts 2007-03-06
- YouTube: What Google CEO Eric Schmidt really thinks
- I feel as if I have been traversing the country with Google CEO Eric Schmidt this week! Yesterday I enjoyed lunch with him during his address to the Morgan Stanley Technology Conference in San Francisco (read my first-hand report in “Google CEO extols $800 billion advertising opportunity”). I spent...
- Tags: Wall Street, Search Advertising, Metrics, Content, Copyright, Google Software Applications, Television, TV, Brands, YouTube, Video, User-Generated Content, Google, Culture, Search, Advertising, Media, Web 2.0, Business Models
- Blog posts 2007-03-06
- Google: Copyright infringement lawsuit risks 'could be substantial'
- Once a year, Google is legally mandated to provide shareholders an accurate assessment of the real financial risks it faces. Google to shareholders on the “substantial” risks it faces regarding potential copyright infringement claims: Any time one of our products or services links to or hosts material in...
- Tags: Business Models, Content, Copyright, Google, YouTube
- Blog posts 2007-03-04
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