Posts Tagged with ‘copyright-law’

The AP isn't wrong.
For some odd reason, there is a viewpoint in Web 2.0 that as long as everyone seems to be doing it, the laws should be changed, or somehow re-interpreted. High on the list of those laws that the horde is clamoring to overturn are those dealing with copyright infringement and libel.
The issues regarding copyright and fair use rear their collective head fairly regularly when it comes to online content, with the music industry as well as the [...]

The Associated Press reported this week that Sony BMG “inked a licensing deal with Yahoo! Inc. that clears the way for people to upload files with music or video content by the record company’s artists” to Yahoo!-owned sites.
The terms of the agreement stipulate that Yahoo! share revenue amassed through advertising associated with its current and future user-generated-media channel(s), as well as the distribution of strictly copyrighted material on the Internet giant’s pages as well as those of third [...]

What do Viacom, Disney, Microsoft, and MySpace have in common? They all want to set “guidelines” in order to maintain copyrights online.
Yes, all four (seems a strangely small group considering the proportions of the effort, no?) have joined hands to work to establish a commonly acceptable system which will purportedly “stop pirated material” from proliferating and generally protect copyright rules from widespread subversion.
And all four will fail at the job. Well, okay, maybe they will, maybe they won’t. To [...]

The morals involved with file sharing on the Web can most certainly conflict with one another. On the one hand we see consumers fighting for some measure of what majority of the population considers justice. On the other, there exists (in some instances) the significant exploitation of the concept of “free", which certainly does need addressing.
Unfortunately, at a time when the waters are still very, very murky, there are a select few bearing the brunt of digital copyright owners’ [...]

The plot thickens every day in the battle between various entities and the tag team of Google and YouTube. The yesterday's news is that NBC Universal has taken sides with Viacom in their piracy lawsuit. This lawsuit, and the most recent one by the English Premier Soccer League we reported on a couple of days ago, may signal the end for "questionably" legal content submission not only on YouTube but anywhere the U.S court has jurisdiction or influence. The weighing in of [...]

Networks playing together? Online? Together? It can’t be. But it is.
They don’t wanna hang out on YouTube, they wanna live in their own house, a web space yet to be named that will be high in professional, multi-million-dollar television programming and low in sleepy puppies and shopping cart antics.
“They” are NBC Universal and FOX (the latter is owned by News Corp), and they’re the first media houses to give Google the cold shoulder by announcing a vague plan for their [...]