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After accusations the new Zynga Bingo has been copied from a template offered by that Buffalo Studio in its release, Bingo Blitz, the leader of the company, has stated that Zynga does not copy ideas from other developers but tries to take concepts that are already known and perfect them. Mark Pincus, the chief execu... |
1 February 2012
21:51 GMT |
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If not the greatest, YouTube is certainly the biggest video site out there. There's content on it to keep you and your family entertained for generations without having to watch anything twice.But that doesn't mean that you won't get into situations where you can't watch something that's read... |
29 December 2011
12:41 GMT |
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Grooveshark has enjoyed a few good years. Its free music streaming service, available worldwide, is enjoyed by millions of people. But the reason why the service is free, with no limits, and available everywhere in the world is because it doesn't have any sort of licensing deal with any of the major record label... |
16 December 2011
20:10 GMT |
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The Megaupload versus Universal Music Group 'drama' keeps on getting weirder. It started with a star-studded video and song, created by Megaupload, to promote its service. It featured some big names like Kanye West, Snoop Dogg, will.i.am and so on. The song had a strange vibe about it, but it was somewhat ... |
16 December 2011
07:46 GMT |
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YouTube and copyright holders have quite a history, but the site is now perhaps one of the best examples of how to manage user-generated content.
It's ContentID program identifies videos that may be infringing, but the interesting part is that YouTube offers copyright holders a way to make money from videos t... |
10 December 2011
04:49 GMT |
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Last week, Universal Music Group made a rather surprising move, suing the Grooveshark, again. It's not the lawsuit that's surprising, the accusations are. Universal claims that Grooveshark employees, from the CEO downwards, uploaded pirated songs to the site.
Grooveshark enables users to upload their own s... |
23 November 2011
11:11 GMT |
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Neelie Kroes, vice-president of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda, stated at the Forum d'Avignon that the fight against piracy is not at all effective, large sums of money being spent in vain.
According to TorrentFreak, Kroes doubts that the current copyright system is the best way of p... |
21 November 2011
10:28 GMT |
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Grooveshark has operated under a somewhat sketchy legal basis from day one. Yet it managed to stay alive for years now, streaming millions of songs, for free, to millions of users around the world.But that may come to an end if the latest accusations coming from Universal Music Group, which has sued the music streami... |
19 November 2011
11:11 GMT |
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Flickr has announced that it now houses more than 200 million photos published under a Creative Commons license, which enables viewers to freely distribute, copy and even modify or use commercially in some cases, the images. This makes Flickr the largest source for Creative Commons (CC) licensed photography on the w... |
6 October 2011
08:06 GMT |
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A lot has been written and speculated about the Spotify launch in the United States, and those wondering why it takes so long for the service to be introduced to Americans have finally got their answer: the company wants to create a service that users will not want to pirate.
The goal is that once all the agreeme... |
31 May 2011
06:35 GMT |
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The United States Senate has been asked to consider a bill about piracy, which directly involves the video game industry, which would make it tougher for illegal content to be distributed and has tougher consequences for the websites that allow such content to proliferate.
The new bill is called the Preventing Rea... |
16 May 2011
16:11 GMT |
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Due to the rise and rise of Twitter, its dedicated photo sharing Twitpic also got a lot of attention, and following a scandal related to them selling users' pictures, they have updated their Terms of Service (ToS) to reassure members that this is not the case.
It was recently revealed that their previous ToS... |
12 May 2011
01:34 GMT |
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Paris Hilton trademarked her well-known phrase “That’s hot” and now actor Charlie Sheen is planning to do the same with some of his most popular Sheenisms, for which a company connected to him has already filed trademark applications. Radar Online reports that Sheen has serious plans to capitalize o... |
6 April 2011
07:29 GMT |
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Amazon launched a cloud storage and a music locker service earlier today, taking lead in the race to offer such a service to users. The product may not be revolutionary, but it can certainly be useful and, since it's free, it's probably going to gain quite a few users 'converting' many to the clou... |
29 March 2011
10:15 GMT |
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Zuffa LLC, the company which holds the rights to the Ultimate Fighting Championship events and the brand associated with them, has filled a law suit against video game publisher Ubisoft, taking aim at the way it has marketed the Fighters Uncaged title, which is built to make use of the Kinect motion tracking system f... |
16 December 2010
04:32 GMT |
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Earlier this year, YouTube raised the time limit for uploaded videos from 10 minutes to 15. The 50 percent increase was substantial and important especially because it was the first one since the site launched.But YouTube wasn't done yet, it is now extending the limit to, well, infinity, for select users. If you... |
10 December 2010
11:17 GMT |
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Google has pledged to take several measures to fight copyright infringement. These measures, which include faster DMCA takedowns and the removal of terms associated with piracy from search suggestions, will be implemented across Google products, starting with the search engine and Blogger. "As the web has grown, we h... |
3 December 2010
04:11 GMT |
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Distribution companies that “sanitize” the content of Hollywood’s biggest blockbusters are not a new presence on the scene – but another one is about to bite the dust, as several major movie studios have joined forces to take action against it. Studios like Warner Bros., Paramount Pictures, Di... |
16 November 2010
08:06 GMT |
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Creative Commons has announced that it has released the Public Domain Mark, a new tool similar to the ones for the various Creative Commons licenses. The new mark will label works that are in the public domain to make it easier for users to determine which works can be freely used or modified. "The Public Domain Mark... |
12 October 2010
04:37 GMT |
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Google has won another YouTube copyright lawsuit, brought against it by content creators. A Spanish court ruled that YouTube was not responsible for the content uploaded by its users and is not obligated to pre-screen content. Instead, the content owners are the ones responsible for finding infringing videos and noti... |
24 September 2010
09:33 GMT |
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a digital rights advocacy group, has managed to institute some interesting exemptions to the DMCA in the US that expand on the scope of ‘fair use’ activities. Specifically, the US Copyright Office and Librarian of Congress, at the request of the EFF, have made it ... |
27 July 2010
03:37 GMT |
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Copyright infringement is rampant on the web, that much is clear, and attempts to stifle it have been misguided at best and have so far failed miserably. Unfortunately, the issue is not as clear cut as the pro-copyright and large media companies would have you believe, there are plenty of cases where users are well w... |
29 June 2010
09:51 GMT |
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Google and copyright have never mixed very well. The company is a strong believer in ‘fair use’ and seems to have a relaxed, though cautious, attitude towards the issue. It proved this with Google Books, for which it got sued, and it proved it with YouTube, to a degree, and it got sued for that as well. I... |
22 June 2010
09:38 GMT |
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LimeWire has been pretty much left for dead after it lost a major copyright lawsuit brought against the company. The massive damages asked in the case pretty much meant the company was done for. Not so fast, though, while the peer-2-peer software is not looking forward to a bright future, the company is apparently pl... |
21 June 2010
11:14 GMT |
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A couple of big rulings on file-sharing in the US came within hours of each other and, despite the similarities of the two cases, but in keeping with recent history, they’re completely at odds. On the one hand, notorious BitTorrent search engine IsoHunt is basically forced to shut down in the US, on the oth... |
22 May 2010
07:26 GMT |
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Blizzard is preparing to roll out a new version of its matchmaking service Battle.net alongside the launch of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty and the company is not afraid of going to the justice courts to make sure that no one manages to crack the system and then use it to put up pirate multiplayer servers that can d... |
27 April 2010
18:01 GMT |
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Viral videos and Internet memes, by nature, come and go pretty fast. The web’s attention span is pretty low. Some memes that have endured the test of time are the Hitler ‘Downfall’ videos, which have been linked to anything from banned Xbox 360 Live accounts to the Apple iPad. Literally, hundreds of... |
22 April 2010
05:21 GMT |
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Big businesses using every means they can to ensure their revenue and profitability haven’t been news for at least several decades and probably a lot more. There’s always been a group, or more, trying to bend the laws, or make new ones, to get what they want. The most recent example is the big media compa... |
16 April 2010
10:15 GMT |
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In another case of record label screw-up, Beyonce's Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) video was blocked in the US in the artist's official YouTube channel. Users visiting the channel trying to play the video were greeted with a notice claiming the video had been blocked following a copyright complaint from h... |
29 March 2010
06:41 GMT |
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The three-year-old legal battle between media giants Google-owned YouTube and Viacom is heating up, as the lawsuit is about to get underway after all the preliminary hearings have been completed. In the meantime, a number of court documents from all parties involved have been released, the first time we've been ... |
19 March 2010
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Spain is becoming the last bastion of common sense when it comes to peer-to-peer and file sharing, at least until the big media companies get their own way and change the law in the country altogether. Torrentfreak, the ever-vigilant blog focusing on BitTorrent and file-sharing issues, points to a recent lawsuit in S... |
15 March 2010
10:46 GMT |
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Pro-copyright lobbyists backed by old media-content companies, meaning mostly movie studios and record labels, are trying to change copyright law all over the world in order to prop up their obsolete business models. And just because they don't get any luck on the web, they want to make sure the experience is ju... |
1 March 2010
04:53 GMT |
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The 2010 Winter Olympics were off to a bad start as those following the event may already know after the fatal accident of a Georgian luger. The crash opens up a number of issues with the organizers and the track but it also opens up another unpleasant discussion as copyright is being abused, again, to keep video of ... |
13 February 2010
05:58 GMT |
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Illegal file-sharing is at the heart of a growing dispute in a number of countries around the world, but the UK has been taking center stage lately. A controversial 'three-strikes' law is now going through Parliament which would potentially kick alleged illegal file sharers of the internet for repeated offe... |
29 January 2010
10:17 GMT |
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Google sure loves its doodles, the graphics it uses to replace the logo on the homepage on special occasions. It ran 12 different doodles since the start of the year, mostly on local versions of the search engine, and you'd think that there couldn't possibly be anything controversial with the cutesy drawin... |
27 January 2010
07:12 GMT |
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Google may be acting tough in the US and other places where it can get away with it, but in China it's as docile as a puppy, or at least that is the impression it gave when it rushed to apologize to Chinese authors for copyright infringement no less. At the heart of the issue is, yet again, Google Books which s... |
11 January 2010
06:51 GMT |
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It is the right of every company to defend its copyright. And so is the case of Hollywood studios that have been fighting the “good” fight since the Napster scandal first shed light upon the new phenomenon of P2P file sharing. At least in one moment of our lives we face an event in which our copy or legal... |
17 December 2009
02:58 GMT |
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New IPs are a genuine risk, even more so this year, now that the gaming industry has seen a rather brutal collapse. Games haven't been doing all that horribly compared to other years, and the big franchises have still sold big, Modern Warfare is a testament to that. In what should be the worse year for games, th... |
14 December 2009
03:15 GMT |
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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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