Author: Stuart Loh
The plaintiff, Stephanie Lenz, posted a 29-second video clip on YouTube of her children dancing to the Prince song “Let’s Go Crazy.” Universal, the copyright holder of that song, issued a DMCA takedown notice with which YouTube complied. Lenz believed that her otherwise...
Author: Allison Pedrazzi Helfrich
Jeffrey Hill and Lisa Hill brought suit against Stubhub, an online marketplace for reselling tickets, after purchasing four tickets to a Hannah Montana concert for $149 each. The face value printed on the tickets turned out to be only $56—a 152%...
Author: José Mauro Decoussau Machado
Io produces, markets, and distributes adult entertainment products. In its lawsuit against Veoh, it maintained that a variety of its copyrighted videos had been uploaded and viewed on veoh.com without prior authorization. Io did not inform Veoh of the presence of...
Not all campaign controversies fill the national stage. But this one should get national attention for being so abusive.
Mark Blanchfield is challenging George Amedore for his New York state assembly seat. Last week, Blanchfield released political ads that include excerpts of an interview Amedore...
Many have worried about the role of intermediaries who provide platforms for sharing information and expression on the internet, and their sometimes profound power to make content disappear. But here is an example of one intermediary -- a big and very important one -- that did the right thing.
Studen...
I write in href="http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Opinion/Avoiding-Web-Rocks-and-Shoals/">this month’s CIO Insight about the 9th Circuit’s en banc decision in the Roommates.com case. This important decision tested the limits of immunity for information service providers (in this case, the operator of a...
After a successful trial MySpace has announced its novel “Take Down Stay Down” campaign. The idea is that upon reception of notice about unauthorized upload of copyrighted material, MySpace will not only remove the allegedly infringing file, but also take digital fingerprint of the accused content...
Last year, Universal Music threatened Javier Prato with legal action for using "I Will Survive" in a humorous video posted on YouTube. It retreated after the Fair Use Project explained Prato's video was protected by Fair Use.
Now, Universal has targeted video blogger Michelle Malkin, who has been...
A lot has been said about Viacom's billion dollar lawsuit against YouTube and Google. In his editorial in last Sunday's New York Times, Larry Lessig pointed out the chaos the Supreme Court has invited through its new-found fondness for the common law of copyright.
One victim of this chaos may be...
It's finally happened. Viacom has sued Google for $1 billion in damages for copyright infringement over videos posted on YouTube. This case will be a great test for exactly how powerful the DMCA Safeharbor protections actually are.
Section 512(c) of the DMCA seems to free GooTube from liability...