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Sparks fly over copyright at Tech Policy Summit

Sparks fly over copyright at Tech Policy SummitLike patriotism, "innovation" is the last refuge of scoundrels.Whenever government contemplates restrictions in defense of IP rights, the argument that preventing theft inhibits innovation is likely to be heard. Actually, the best way to encourage innovation would be to make activities illegal....

Tags: Government, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Strategy, Tech Policy Summit, DMCA Safe Harbors, Lohmann, innovation, harbor

Discussion threads 2008-03-31

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'Smoking gun' emails in Viacom-YouTube case

Is this a smoking gun in the Viacom-YouTube suit? News.com's Greg Sandoval reports that evidence has surfaced that may undercut YouTube's argument that it has safe harbor protection under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act: Internal YouTube e-mails indicate that YouTube managers knew and discussed the existence of...

Tags: YouTube Inc., Viacom Inc., E-mail, Advertising & Promotion, Online Communications, Marketing, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-10-07

Pirate Bay verdict dismissed safe harbors, comparison with Google

Pirate Bay verdict dismissed safe harbors, comparison with GooglePropaganda always trumps truthYes, TPB openly ridiculed the asshats from the US that sent them DMCA takedowns. This was, of course, turned into a major point against them, and that was accomplished far easier than it should have been.Naturally, the Propaganda...

Tags: Google Inc., TPB, DMCA, Safe Harbor

Discussion threads 2009-05-02

Sparks fly over copyright at Tech Policy Summit

The group of copyright scholars and advocates gathered Wednesday at the Tech Policy Summit in Hollywood demonstrated that while copyright must function in a converged world, opinions on how it should function are as divergent as ever. The panel pictured from left to right consisted...

Tags: Innovation, Lawsuit, Patent, Harbor, TiVo Inc., Fred, Lohmann, Copyrights, Copyright System, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Denise Howell

Blog posts 2008-03-31

Google's Viacom response: An army of lawyers cut and paste

How many lawyers does it take to cut and paste "deny allegations" a few hundred times? Thats the most interesting question raised by Googles response to Viacoms $1 billion copyright suit over videos posted on YouTube see Techmeme discussion. ...

Tags: General, Google, Hollywood on Demand, Web Technology, YouTube

Blog posts 2007-05-01

Perfect 10 v. CCBill: "direct financial benefit" means infringing material must draw users, says Ninth Circuit

Late last month, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals came out with an important decision, Perfect 10 v. CCBill PDF, that required it to interpret and apply both the Digital Millenium Copyright Act and Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act — two of the most important U.S. provisions...

Tags: Video, User generated content, Social networking, Live Web, Lawsuits, DMCA, Copyright

Blog posts 2007-04-13

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