World Business Briefing | Europe: Turkey: YouTube Blocked Over Content Found Offensive
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A court ordered the YouTube Web site blocked throughout Turkey because of a video deemed insulting to Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey. The ban followed a week of what the news media termed a âvirtual warâ of videos between Greeks and Turks on YouTube. The largest Internet provider, Turk Telecom, complied with the ban and cut off access to the site. Insulting Ataturk is a criminal offense in Turkey.
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By SETH SUTEL  NEW YORK - Media company Viacom Inc., which owns the cable networks MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon and the Paramount Pictures movie studio, asked YouTube on Friday to remove more than 100,000 unauthorized clips from its hugely popular video-sharing site.
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Much ado about Ataturk A Turkish court has banned YouTube access after someone complained that the world's most popular video sharer was hosting clips that insulted the country's founding father. And, yes, you've heard all this before.â¦
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The official explanation for a Turkish court once again banning citizens' access to YouTube over the weekend was the presence of new videos insulting the name of one of Turkey's founding fathers. But that video's been there awhile, and there could be another reason.
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After months of unsuccessful talks, the media giant asks YouTube to remove over 100,000 unauthorized video clips from the hugely popular site. By the Associated Press.
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The Thai government said today it has lifted a ban on YouTube after the Web site agreed not to allow videos that violate the countryâs laws or are deemed offensive there.
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A Turkish court ordered access to YouTube's Web site blocked on Wednesday, after a prosecutor recommended the ban because of videos allegedly insulting the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
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By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Feb. 23--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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YouTube will start displaying a notice in Japanese on its Web site warning users against uploading copyright content, its two founders told representatives of a broad group of Japanese copyright holders on Tuesday in their firstÂ face-to-face meeting.
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There are YouTube videos that may be described as "un-tasteworthy in the extreme," and then there are those that draw the attention of world leaders for precisely that reason. Today, Foreign Minister Stephen Smith of Australia issued an (audio statement) condemning a video that accuses his country of racism, according to Agence France-Presse: "It is un-tasteworthy [...].
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TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran has blocked access to the popular video-sharing Web site YouTube.com, and a press rights group warned on Tuesday that Internet censorship in the Islamic state is on the rise.
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Internet users in Turkey regained access to the popular video-sharing Web site YouTube on Friday when a court revoked a ban imposed because a clip was judged to have insulted the country's founder.
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Access to the popular video-sharing Web site YouTube resumed on Thursday, six days after a court ordered it blocked because of clips allegedly insulting the country's founding father.
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The European Commission is turning to video-sharing Web site YouTube.com to disseminate information about the workings of the European Union to its citizens, through a new channel on the site called EUtube, it announced Friday.
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A Japanese entertainment group is not happy with YouTube's progress in weeding out copyrighted content, and is asking the social video site to implement stricter policies on video uploads.
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ISTANBUL -- Looking to check out the latest videos of cavorting kittens and lovelorn lip-synchers on YouTube? If you live in Turkey, you're out of luck.
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ISTANBUL, Turkey - Turkey lifted its ban on YouTube Friday, an official for the country's largest telecommunications firm said, two days after a court ordered the Web site blocked because of videos that allegedly insulted the founder of modern Turkey.