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- YouTube's end game nears
- Viacoms $1 billion lawsuit against Googles YouTube kicks off what could be the end game for the video sharing site. Viacom filed a complaint in the Southern District of New York that alleges a "massive intentional copyright infringement of Viacoms entertainment properties." Viacom seeks $1 billion...
- Tags: game, YouTube Inc., Viacom Inc., lawsuit, Viacoms $1, Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-03-13
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- Google to protect user identities, but not employees'
- Google to protect user identities, but not employees'viacom may want to reign their lawyers inThere is a high potential for Viacom to piss off its customers. Sooner or later one of these DCMA/Copyright lawsuits will go too far and cause a decline in business for the rights holder that...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Viacom Inc., user identity, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-16
- NY to Google: Stop trapping consumer data, or no DoubleClick merger
- Has Google CEO Eric Schmidt finally met his match in New York state Governor Eliot Spitzer?Schmidt feigns scant concern over Viacoms $1 billion lawsuit claiming "massive copyright fringement" following the Google $1.65 billion stock buyout of YouTube. Will the chief Googler also "dismiss" the efforts of Spitzers administration to call...
- Tags: Advertising, DoubleClick, Google, Google Software Applications, Internet Data, Privacy, Search
- Blog posts 2007-05-10
- Why Joost landed the big funding dollars
- Joosts position as a potential YouTube killer has been cemented by $45 million from a bunch of venture capitalists and CBS and Viacom. Joost, currently in beta, says its funding will "accelerate product development, global expansion, localization, and service offerings."...
- Tags: Web Technology, Hollywood on Demand, Google, General, Entertainment
- Blog posts 2007-05-10
- 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 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
- Google accuses Viacom of 'Unclean Hands': Demands day in court!
- Google returned the legal volley to Viacom today, filing an official response with U.S. District Court in the Southern District of New York to Viacom’s March 13 lawsuit which alleges massive intentional copyright infringement of Viacoms entertainment properties.Viacom seeks more than $1 billion in damages, as well as an injunction...
- Tags: Content, Copyright, Google, Legal
- Blog posts 2007-04-30
- 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
- Viacom shacks up with Yahoo
- The enemy of your enemy is your best pal. Just ask Viacom, which is suing Googles YouTube, and hopping in bed with Yahoo for text ads. Viacom and Yahoo announced a "multi-year partnership" where Yahoo will be the exclusive provider of sponsored search and contextual ads on all of Viacoms...
- Tags: Web Technology, Hollywood on Demand, YouTube, Yahoo, Google, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-10
- 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 vs. Viacom: Will Michael Kwun eat his DMCA words?
- Michael Kwun, Google Managing Counsel, Litigation, has fighting words for $1 billion copyright infringement plaintiff Viacom, declared publicly via The Washington Post.Unfortunately for Kwun, his words are in direct contradiction to those of his boss, CEO Eric Schmidt, also declared publicly, a stone’s throw from the Googleplex last August.Kwun today:...
- Tags: Viacom Inc., Google Inc., YouTube Inc., Michael Kwun, DMCA
- Blog posts 2007-03-29
- Jeff Jarvis at VON '07: "We are reinventing TV. It's ours."
- The description of Jeff Jarviss talk on the VON Web site captured precisely what he covered:Our medium [Internet TV] is so new, we have the chance to do things right, to set ourselves up for success. What do we need to make our small TV revolution successful in advertising,...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, TV, good stuff, advertiser
- Blog posts 2007-03-20
- News to know: Adobe Apollo Alpha; Intel benchmarks; Local Web ads
- Notable headlines:Ryan Stewart: Apollo public alpha available. Microsoft, Adobe, and rich versus reach. Apollo Camp: effective UI helping developers extend Apollo.Adobe offers early peak at Apollo. Adobe statement. Salesforce update to CRM service springs forward. Database servers get a new...
- Tags: Intel Corp., Apollo, Adobe Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Adobe Apollo, advertisement
- Blog posts 2007-03-19
- Blogged content could carry advertising links...
- Blogged content could carry advertising links...In the SF Chronicle this week there was a lot of discussion about old and new media. Dan Fost had a great front page feature and daily notes on the geek part of the South by Southwest festival which featured top bloggers such as Robert...
- Tags: Blogging, advertisement, advertising link, media, blogger
- Blog posts 2007-03-17
- Google Talk Gadget brings GT, YouTube sharing to personalized Google home pages
- Just today, Google has introduced the Google Talk Gadget.Its a web-based module that users can add to their Google Personalized Homepage. The upside of this, near as I can tell, is that you can place Google Talk directly on your Google Personalized Home Page. From there, you can see and...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Talk, Google Talk Gadget, YouTube Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-03-15
- Podcast: HP pretexters get wrist-slaps, the mortally wounded copyright, Red Hat seeks threesome with Microsoft, and Tellme more
- This week on the Dan & David Show, ZDNet executive editor Larry Dignan fills in for Dan Farber and we cover the four biggest news stories of the week so far. While the world looks for ways to bridge the digital divide, Microsofts attempts to close the gap between computer...
- Tags: Novell, virtualization, YouTube, Hewlett-Packard, Red Hat, VMware, Microsoft, Google, Linux, Berlind, Hollywood on Demand, Entertainment, Software Infrastructure, Podcasts, Dan &, David Show, General, Open Source
- Blog posts 2007-03-14
- Digital culturus interruptus: Right here, right now, the almighty copyright finally comes home to roost
- Sooner or later, it was bound to happen. Like teenagers biologically programmed to step across every boundary put in place by their parents, the digerati, equipped with the constantly evolving tools of their trade (everything from YouTube-like video sharing sites to widely available hacks of anti-piracy systems), have been been...
- Tags: Apple, Entertainment, General, Government, Hollywood On Demand, Legal, Personal Technology, Web technology
- Blog posts 2007-03-13
- Excerpts from Viacom's scathing YouTube complaint
- Viacom filed a complaint against Googles YouTube and it isnt pretty. Whether Viacom is looking for leverage, a test of copyright law or the end of YouTube isnt exactly clear.One thing is certain: Viacom doesnt pull punches. GoogleWatch cooked up 18 reasons why Viacom is screaming about YouTube. The complaint...
- Tags: YouTube Inc., Viacom Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-03-13
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