Microsoft to blast Google for its copyright policy
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Microsoft Corp.  is set to  launch a blistering attack on rival Google Inc.
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A trademark infringement suit against Google may alter how the search industry makes a profit.
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Microsoft plans to block access to some features by unlicensed versions of OS.
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Microsoft launched an unusually caustic public broadside yesterday against Google, accusing its archrival of running roughshod over copyrights as it creates an online service for searching books.
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Lane Hartwell got Google to take down a YouTube video that used her photo without permission. Expect more such copyright tussles in the Flickr era.
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In yet another clash between tech titans, Microsoft is accusing Google of copyright infringement. Redmond claims Google's Book Search project robs publishers and authors of due profits by reprinting their content online for the world to view free of charge.
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Microsoft is defending itself against charges by Google that it rigged its new Vista operating system to give its desktop search software an unfair edge over that of its rivals.
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Google Inc. , racing to  head off a media industry backlash over its video Web site  YouTube, will soon offer anti-piracy technologies to help all  copyright holders thwart unauthorized video sharing, its chief  executive said on Wednesday.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. _ Google is set to start filtering videos and other content on YouTube for copyrighted materials, taking a key step in helping the online video-sharing site comply with one of the biggest complaints it faces _ rampant piracy.
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Policy group cries foul Google continues to fight allegations that it's promoting video piracy. In March, entertainment giant Viacom slapped Google with a $1bn lawsuit over copyrighted videos posted to YouTube, the site Google purchased last fall, and now, the National Legal and Policy Center is asking whether the search engine cum world power is facilitating copyright infringement on its home-grown video-sharing site, Google Video.â¦
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(InfoWorld) - A Microsoft attorney will attack Google's book search service in a speech Tuesday to the Association of American Publishers (AAP), saying Google is misappropriating principles of fair use to further its own business model. Thomas Rubin, Microsoft's associate general counsel, will address the AAP's annual meeting in New York, stating that while Microsoft's Live Search Books honors copyright protection and fair use, Google's Book Search abuses it. "In my view, Google has chosen the wrong path for the longer term, because it systematically violates copyright and deprives authors and publishers of an important avenue for monetizing their works," Rubin said in a copy of the speech posted on the Web site of The Wall Street Journal. Rubin also addressed the issue in a commentary written for Monday's edition of The Financial Times. "Google defends its actions primarily by arguing that its unauthorized copying and future monetization of your books are protected as fair use," the speech says. At issue is Microsoft's contention that Google has taken the position that it may scan, catalog, and display content published in book form under fair use principles unless the copyright right holders tells them not to. Rubin also says in his speech that Google then profits from material to which it does not own the copyright by running advertising along with it. He says that Microsoft seeks and receives permission from all publishers of copyrighted material before including it among titles that can be searched. A search for Ernest Hemingway's novel "The Old Man and the Sea" on Google Book Search brought up noÂ ads on the results page, but inserted one ad below four pages of scanned text. In contrast, Microsoft's Live Search Books, currently being beta-tested, brought up only one title in its search results, a book called "Search and Struggle for Quality and Independence," which cites Hemingway's tale as a reference. No advertising appears on the results page or the book's page. Rubin calls Google's attitude towards copyright protection "weak at best" and cites accusations leveled atÂ Google-owned YouTubeÂ over failure to remove copyrighted material as proof of that. "Anyone who visits YouTube, whichÂ Google purchased last year, will immediately recognize that it follows a similar cavalier approach to copyright," said Rubin. Google did not respond immediately to a request for comment. The U.S. Copyright Office defines "fair use" on its Web site as: "quotation of excerpts in a review or criticism for purposes of illustration or comment; quotation of short passages in a scholarly or technical work, for illustration or clarification of the author's observations; use in a parody of some of the content of the work parodied; summary of an address or article, with brief quotations, in a news report; reproduction by a library of a portion of a work to replace part of a damaged copy; reproduction by a teacher or student of a small part of a work to illustrate a lesson; reproduction of a work in legislative or judicial proceedings or reports; incidental and fortuitous reproduction, in a newsreel or broadcast, of a work located in the scene of an event being reported." Â
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Another front in the on-going battle between Microsoft and Google is about to be opened. By the end of 2004 Microsoft aims to launch search software to find any kind of file on a PC hard drive.
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Microsoft Corp. said on Monday it  expects rival Google Inc. to file a complaint with a federal  judge arguing that changes Microsoft has agreed to make to its  Windows Vista operating system fall short of addressing  concerns that its computer search function puts Google and  other potential competitors at a disadvantage.
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Google said Friday that it plans to subpoena its search rivals Microsoft and Yahoo in order to obtain information that will help the company defend its book scanning project from a legal attack. Google was sued by both the Association of American Publishers and the Authors Guild.
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Microsoft Corp. will make changes to its desktop search program following a complaint to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) by Google Inc., a news report said late Tuesday.
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Microsoft Corp.  has agreed to  modify its Windows Vista operating system in response to a  complaint that its computer search function put Google Inc.   and other potential rivals at a disadvantage, the  Justice Department and Microsoft said on Tuesday.
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Microsoft on Friday added copyrighted books to its online library, saying it has permission to offer the works to searchers on the Internet.