Tag: copyright
Viacom wins right to sift through YouTube user data, all four terabytes of it
In the long running battle between Viacom and Google over YouTube hosting copyrighted videos, Viacom has now won a ruling to allow it to access a complete set of video viewing records, totalling some four terabytes of data.
Google argues that the data, which lists every IP address and the videos watched, would infringe on its users’ privacy. The judge used Google’s own argument — that IP addresses don’t personally identify an individual — to throw out that objection.
Three strikes and you're back to reading books – UK internet anti-piracy rules revealed
Good god, they’re actually going ahead with it.
Next week, says The Times, the government will introduce its Green Paper outlining plans to officially adopt a similar anti-piracy stance to the one used in France – get caught downloading copyrighted material three times and your internet connection will be terminated…
YouTube finally gets video blocking software for unauthorised content
It's been a long time coming, and is potentially good news if you're a content owner, but bad news for anyone who uses YouTube to find all manner of free, but illegal, videos. YouTube has announced that a beta version…
Kwik-Fit mechanic's loud music = illegal performance = £200,000 fine
You couldn’t make it up. This country. And so on.
The Performing Rights Society, the body that collects cash each time a song is played on TV or the radio – has, literally, gone totally berserk and launched a copyright infringement case…
YouTube testing video fingerprinting tech to head off copyright lawsuits
What do you do if you’re the planet’s biggest video-sharing site, and you’re getting sued for a billion dollars by Viacom for copyright infringement? Why, you get your arse into gear to develop some technology to identify dodgy vids, of course.
Viacom suing Google for $1bn over YouTube copyright infringements
Whilst some other companies have been happy to do content deals with YouTube, Viacom is not one of them, and it's pursuing Google for a reported US$1bn due to copyright infringement on a massive scale. Last month, Viacom demanded over…
Microsoft give up newspapers' copyright content without a court battle
In the case of Microsoft versus Copiepresse, the Belgian press association that has already stifled Google and wants to do the same to Microsoft for publishing excerpts of newspapers on its news search results, Microsoft has decided to concede without…
Microsoft ordered to 'cease and desist' over Belgian newspaper content
Remember my rant about newspapers getting worked up over Google News? Well, they're after Microsoft now. CopiePresse, who manages the copyright for French and German-speaking press in Belgium, has sent a 'cease and desist' (in other words, take it down…