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YouTube has announced that it will expand its Content ID program to integrate with YouTube Insight, a tool used to monitor all sorts of viewing stats for the videos uploaded to the site. Content ID was originally created to check uploaded videos for infringing content but increasingly it's turning from a policin... |
29 September 2009
10:19 GMT |
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A lawsuit seeking class-action status was filed against document-sharing website Scribd last week. In the suit, author Elaine Scott claims that the site is guilty of copyright infringement and that the company is well aware that copyrighted works are available on the site and it's even profiting from it. Scribd ... |
21 September 2009
10:41 GMT |
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World renowned media stock marketplace iStockphoto issued a press release stating that it would be legally guaranteeing its stock collection at absolutely no cost for the customer. The company, a subsidiary of Getty Images, has assured users that purchasing or using an image according to its License Agreement will no... |
17 September 2009
09:49 GMT |
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Swedish-based, proprietary, peer-to-peer, music-streaming service Spotify has recently found itself in the midst of a huge media scandal with local music artist Magnus Uggla. The 55-year-old musician claims that he required Spotify to remove his music tracks from its database at the start of August 2009, but the serv... |
9 September 2009
04:09 GMT |
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Since early June this year, the market for portable computer systems has expanded with the introduction of a new form factor and device, better known as smartbook. These ARM-based computer systems have been designed as alternatives to the vastly popular netbooks, which typically run on an Intel processor coupled with... |
31 August 2009
06:34 GMT |
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The legal dispute between the British National Portrait Gallery (NPG) of London and a Wikipedia contributor, American Derrick Coetzee, has taken a new turn as the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), an international non-profit organization that fights for freedom of speech with a focus on “digital rights,&rdq... |
4 August 2009
06:51 GMT |
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File-sharing site Rapidshare has been hit with a big fine of €24 million ($34 million) by the Regional Court in Hamburg, Germany, following a request by GEMA, a German copyright protection group acting on behalf of 65,000 composers and other music industry parties. The court also forbid the file-sharing site fro... |
24 June 2009
10:24 GMT |
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A representative of the United States administration announced that Canada was being placed on the Priority Watch List, which is focused on those countries not doing enough to stop copyright infringements. It's the first time Canada has gone on the list, joining states like China, Russia, India, Thailand and Ven... |
6 May 2009
02:37 GMT |
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Over recent months, the search engine giant Google has come under increased attacks from news agencies and newspapers, which wonder if the company's news aggregator is not a breach of copyright, and if the company has the right to take all of its materials and index them in its engine. They are also pondering th... |
8 April 2009
13:01 GMT |
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According to officials working for various copyright protection institutions and organizations, more and more potential viewers are being deterred from the cinemas by the growing phenomenon of peer-to-peer sharing (P2P), which, in their minds, facilitates the distribution of copyrighted materials, and infringes the r... |
10 March 2009
10:27 GMT |
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Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine, two leading economists from the Washington University in St. Louis, believe that the time has come for patents and copyright to disappear as pieces of legislation from the laws of all countries. They say that the most important asset that any nation now has in front of the economi... |
6 March 2009
09:40 GMT |
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For those who don't yet know of freeyourphone.org, these guys decided to take some action. As a project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the leading civil liberties group defending your rights in the digital world, Free Your Phone, believes that “the threat of litigation has driven consumers un... |
17 February 2009
05:05 GMT |
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We recently reported that a federal judge had allowed Psystar Corp. to continue its countersuit against Apple Inc., giving the Mac clone maker its first win in a seven-month-old battle with Apple. Towards the end of last week, Psystar filed an amended complaint saying Apple had misused copyrights by preventing Mac OS... |
16 February 2009
06:15 GMT |
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A legal representative from the EFF, going by the name of Fred von Lohmann, says that Apple has filed new comments with the Copyright Office as part of the 2009 DMCA, stating that jailbreaking your iPhone and iPod constitutes copyright infringement and a DMCA violation.9to5Mac quotes the EFF as saying that “App... |
16 February 2009
03:15 GMT |
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An American official announced on Monday that China lost the World Trade Organization (WTO) case in which it was fighting the United States, and that the Asian nation would be from now on forced to enact more complex laws, to ensure that copyright holders are not deprived of their income. Chinese authorities systemat... |
27 January 2009
02:35 GMT |
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According to new statistics from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), approximately 95 percent of all music downloads on the Internet are currently illegal, in that they infringe on copyright and cut the flow of cash to companies and artists. As a result, revenues have dropped globally by... |
16 January 2009
09:04 GMT |
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YouTube announced recently that its discussions with the Warner Music Group, which manages such artists as Madonna, Linkin Park and the Red Hot Chilli Peppers, failed to reach satisfying conclusions for both of them. As a result, the video-sharing website, now owned by Google, refused to broadcast videos from WMG. In... |
22 December 2008
04:30 GMT |
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Though Sweden has a population of only about 9 million people, a new statistic says that 700,000 citizens often used illegal peer-to-peer transfers in the first three months of 2008, amassing a total of more than 605,100 files. The report was prompted by recent allegations against the country, which was accused of be... |
18 December 2008
06:51 GMT |
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Microsoft is pointing the finger at Google, accusing the Mountain View-based Internet giant of being a parasite preying on media companies. Speaking at the UK Association of Online Publishers, Thomas C. Rubin, Microsoft chief counsel for Intellectual Property Strategy, indicated that, while publishers were struggling... |
24 November 2008
09:58 GMT |
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When Guitar Hero World Tour was initially announced, one of the most interesting features was the fact that Activision said the game would sport a complete music creation tool, which was supposed to allow players to compose songs that could be subsequently shared with other players online. As the game was launched, A... |
10 November 2008
18:51 GMT |
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Electronic Arts is facing a lawsuit from a composer, Gerald Willis, who claims that the company has been using a track called “Win With the Rebels” without his permission, even if he is the exclusive holder of the rights for the track. As it happens, the track is also the fight song for the University of ... |
23 October 2008
04:22 GMT |
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We know that God of War III is in the making, thanks to an official announcement and a brief trailer, but what we don't know whether we will ever get to play the game. There's a good chance that development might be slowed down or even stopped as main developer David Jaffe and Sony Computer Entertainm... |
19 September 2008
03:15 GMT |
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Apple and Psystar have agreed to extend the period of time in which Apple has to respond to Psystar's Counterclaims, filed on August 28, 2008, until September 30, 2008. Apple too granted Psystar not one, but two such response extensions in the past months, since the Cupertino-based Mac maker filed its original s... |
17 September 2008
05:52 GMT |
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The US District Court of Arizona has ruled that Jeffrey Howell, a man who used the P2P file-sharing program KaZaA for illegal purposes, should pay a fine of $40,500. What the defendant did was to download 54 tracks from various record companies, and then share them with other users of the software. The Recording Indu... |
3 September 2008
10:49 GMT |
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The official website of the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown doesn't give credit for the Wordpress theme used by its makers, as Anthony Baggett, a former web designer, claims on his blog. The man, who lives in Mississippi, has created several themes for Wordpress pages, under the Creative Commons 3.0 license,... |
20 August 2008
10:41 GMT |
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Media companies have grown tired of forcing YouTube into pulling copyrighted videos off the website. Some may wonder why, as copyright infringements can bring, in time, millions of dollars worth of damages. According to the New York Times, CBS, Universal Music, Lionsgate Entertainment and Electronic Arts, along with ... |
18 August 2008
06:57 GMT |
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One month ago, some embraced with great joy the launch of Mygazines, a website where people can "upload. share. archive" any edition of their favorite publications. Users can register free of charge and they also access all the content for free. Adding up the fact that the website doesn't display all those annoy... |
16 August 2008
04:38 GMT |
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Yesterday marked a big step in copyright protection of open source licensed software, as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled that an open source software developer can claim copyright infringement, even if the work is released under a free software license.The appellate court reversed a district c... |
15 August 2008
06:11 GMT |
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As we previously reported, Facebook has entered a legal action against what seems to be an exact copy of the American social network. Although the formal announcement of the lawsuit has not been made yet, studiVZ, the company that was accused of plagiarism, has released a quite intriguing statement regarding the matt... |
21 July 2008
04:49 GMT |
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Be careful what you feed that iPod from now on, as new copyright protection laws allegedly give border guards the right to seize iPods and mobile phones suspected of containing illegally-downloaded contents."...reports claim the Canadian government is secretly negotiating to join the US and the EU in an Anti-Counterf... |
28 May 2008
16:06 GMT |
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The Mountain View-based company Google is, once again, sent to court for copyright infringement, being accused by the copyright organization CopiePresse that it has published news belonging to Belgian newspapers without authorization. The copyright group demanded damages of $77 million due to the fact that Google pos... |
28 May 2008
06:42 GMT |
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Ever wanted to view a YouTube clip but you couldn't do it because it had been removed for copyright complaints? Ever wanted to know what happened with the clip and what's the reason for the removal? Now you can get all the information straight from YouTomb, a new service that tracks the YouTube clips which ... |
21 May 2008
04:08 GMT |
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The recent anti-piracy efforts made by organizations around the world closed lots of websites suspected of piracy, but also brought a large number of lawsuits against them. WikiSubtitles, the web service which creates subtitles with the help of the community, joined the club a few days ago as it was taken offline due... |
21 May 2008
02:50 GMT |
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Although Mininova is the most popular BitTorrent service on the web, this doesn't stop the copyright organization to go after the website and force it to remove copyright infringement torrent files. For those of you who don't know, Mininova is way more popular than The Pirate Bay, being placed on position n... |
20 May 2008
02:20 GMT |
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Masato Nakatsuji, a 24-year-old student at Osaka Electro-Communication University, received a sentence of two years behind bars but he won't go there due to the fact that the sentence is suspended for three years, security company Sophos reports. In case you missed the news, Masato Nakatsuji wrote the notorious ... |
19 May 2008
05:04 GMT |
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The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has an interesting method to find and catch potential pirates, turning to the same file-sharing applications that are currently used by them, The Chronicle reports. According to the same source, the organization made a demonstration on how the employees manage to i... |
15 May 2008
10:28 GMT |
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The Icelandic copyright organizations that sued the country's largest BitTorrent tracker suffered another defeat after the court decided that there were no legal grounds in the case against the service. According to Ben Jones of TorrentFreak, the administrators of the website plan to reopen it on May 16, althoug... |
12 May 2008
05:23 GMT |
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The battle between The Pirate Bay and MPAA continues with a new dispute: this time, the Motion Pictures Association of America demands damages of no less than $15.4 million due to the fact that the BitTorrent website published pirated copies of several of its movies and allowed Internet users to download them. Accord... |
9 May 2008
02:55 GMT |
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The fight against BitTorrent websites which are accused of copyright infringement continues with a new duel, this time between IsoHunt and MPAA(Motion Picture Association of America). IsoHunt was quite reticent in the last few months, probably due to the fact that all people concentrated on The Pirate Bay and on its ... |
5 May 2008
06:19 GMT |
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CoreAVC-for-Linux, a project addressed to Linux users who want to play videos encoded with the H.264 standard through other open-source players, was removed from the Google Code website due to what seems to be a copyright infringement complaint. What's interesting is that nobody knows for sure who made the compl... |
5 May 2008
04:07 GMT |
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Most software packages out there have licensing terms which protect them from copyright infringement such as re-distribution which would obviously cause financial losses to the development company. However, it seems like all the software developers, including the ones working in the underground market, want to protec... |
29 April 2008
02:48 GMT |
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The matter of copyright is one of the most popular news subjects these days, but what's more important is actually the fact that most articles talk about illegal downloading or pirated content. Today, another file-sharing related news reaches the web as the Seoul authorities have started, once again, a serious c... |
22 April 2008
05:57 GMT |
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It's well known the fact that the underground market has grown a lot, especially when talking about P2P downloads where the BitTorrent industry was often brought in the spotlights due to legal fights with copyright holders. However, it's obvious that some people choose to download pirated movies, music and ... |
11 April 2008
05:15 GMT |
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File sharing is once again causing important disputes around the world as Simonsen, a Norwegian law firm, wants to reduce the amount of copyrighted material circulating on the web by asking users to stop sharing files that may infringe copyrights, bit-tech.net informs. According to the report, Advokatfirma DA started... |
4 April 2008
06:25 GMT |
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The copyright of the content uploaded on YouTube has always been a problem for the video sharing service's parent company Google, as there are numerous firms which sued the search giant, accusing it of copyright infringement. Because of that, every new copyright deal signed by Google is welcomed, as it keeps the... |
31 March 2008
03:53 GMT |
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The United States are the land of opportunity, where everybody can sue anybody and even win. And moreover, the seemingly obvious decisions turn to eye-widening, jaw-dropping twists of plot. A recent ruling could be the turning point for the way cases are instrumented against file sharers. A year ago, Atlantic Recordi... |
27 February 2008
14:46 GMT |
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If the European Parliament's initiative to criminalize copyright infringement is going to happen, it will most definitely make Internet users think twice about downloading something off the web. Member states of the EU have been asked to press ahead with the plan and ministers from each country were advised to a... |
22 February 2008
09:06 GMT |
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Yahoo China's music service violates copyright, a Beijing court ruled on December 20th as it dismissed the company's appeal made in April. According to a press release published on the IFPI website, Yahoo China's music service allows the visitors to download, search and find pirated music straight from... |
27 December 2007
09:01 GMT |
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A recent study conducted by market researcher TNS reveals that 38 percent of the Britons connected to the Internet think that downloading pirated content from the web is not as serious as stealing from a store. According to Web User News, the TNS study also revealed that UK Internet consumers 'didn't like t... |
20 December 2007
05:40 GMT |
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I knew such a thing had to happen, because there's no video sharing service on the web that managed to escape without any single lawsuit filed for copyright infringement. But, I must admit that today's legal dispute is pretty attractive, since it includes two let's say 'special' companies foc... |
11 December 2007
02:56 GMT |
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