Does Google own your content?
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Google's privacy and content policies for Google Applications give Google full rights to use your content however the company wants.  Are you nervous?
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Folksonomies Web 2.0 pioneers are taking personal control of how online content is organised, according to new research.â¦
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Blog: Google wins on appeal in Usenet copyright case.
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Goes back to its roots Google has gone back to its roots and, in the style of HP, has bought the house and garage in which founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin first established the company. The company has not said how much it paid for the property.â¦
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Stumble and fumble Analysis When we said that Google overpaid for the YouTube acquisition we were loudly pilloried and reminded that it paid, after all, only in shares. But the increasing alarm that has emerged over whether or not YouTube is a genuine phenomena and whether in fact it is simply a replacement for the piracy once led by Kazaa, threatens to undermine the value of YouTube radically.â¦
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Directive does not apply to search engines Google is not bound by the Data Retention Directive when it comes to search engine logs, Europe's data protection committee has said. Google has used the Directive to justify keeping data, but OUT-LAW has learned that the law does not apply.â¦
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Google has promised to give content makers control over advertisements overlaid on video clips.
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Google's video-sharing site helps users edit uploads without leaving the site.
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Google generated most of its revenue -- $411.7 million -- through text-based ads displayed on company-owned sites. That&#39;s an important factor, because Google doesn&#39;t have to share the money with other advertising partners.
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(InfoWorld) - Google is hosting potentially copyrighted videos, including recent full-length movies and concerts as well as broadcast and cable TV programs on Google Video, a nonprofit group is charging. The movies include such new releases as Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Live Free or Die Hard, and Sicko, according to the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC), a nonprofit organization in Falls Church, Va., that says it is "focused on ethics and accountability in public life and private business." Earlier this week, the group released a list of what it calls the Top 50 movies, cable programs and music concerts that Google is hosting on Google Video, including Sony Pictures' Hollow Man 2 and several episodes of NBC's The Office. Computerworld was able to download at least one of the movies referred to by the NLPC. Google spokesman Gabriel Stricker said that despite its policies requiring that users own the content they post on Google Video, the only way the company can remove potentially copyright-infringing material is if the copyright holder files a formal complaint with Google under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA) of 1998. In part, the DCMA limits Internet service providers from copyright infringement liability for simply transmitting information over the Internet. Service providers, however, are expected to remove material from users' Web sites that appears to constitute copyright infringement. However, Stricker reiterated that only the legitimate copyright holder can ask Google to remove the material. It was entirely possible, he said, that the copyright holders wanted the content that the NLPC is referring to uploaded to Google Video. But Stricker said Google is working with copyright holders to develop a system that will automatically alert Google to illegally posted content. NLPC Chairman Ken Boehm said Google is hiding behind the DCMA by requiring takedown notices. "Every day we are finding dozens of new movies on Google Video," Boehm said in a statement. "While we [understand] that it's difficult to know for sure whether all of the content is being hosted in violation of copyright laws, it doesn't take a Google mathematician to know that much of this content is being hosted without the copyright owner's knowledge or permission."
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Will the increased relevance from Google's new universal search process leave other search engines in the dust?
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New NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker blasted Google-owned YouTube on Wednesday, complaining YouTube wasn&#8217;t doing enough to stop users from uploading copyrighted clips of NBC shows such as Saturday Night Live: &#8220;YouTube needs to prove that it will implement its filtering technology across its online platform. It&#8217;s proven it can do it when it wants to,&#8221; [...]
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Google has won a patent regarding the design of it's search pages, although don't expect a rush of infringement lawsuits. This patent and over seven million others will be searchable through Google Patent Search, also announced Thursday.
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Google Domains Foreshadow an Archive Search? Will Google be launching their own version of the Archive.org Wayback Machine? Some recent domain name purchases have ZDNet&#8217;s Garett Rogers following his gut and predicting that such a service (perhaps even a paid for professional service?) may be right around the corner. If my gut instinct is correct, it won&#8217;t [...]
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Google Inc. has promised to give content makers control over advertisements overlaid on video clips they post to its YouTube video-sharing Web site.
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Google may not have monopoly power, but it certainly has monopoly mind share.
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Tabby 'wants to be alone' Google has raised fresh privacy concerns in the US, thanks to its new Street View service on its maps. It is apparently not enough that the advertising broker would like to find your next job for you, or tell you what you might want to do at the weekend, now it wants to peer into your living rooms.â¦