The YouTube world opens an untamed frontier for copyright law
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Laws on use of sampled material are murky, and stand to get murkier before they get clearer, experts say.
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Online video site YouTube is to test a new video fingerprinting technology to address copyright concerns.
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A mobile YouTube service brings formerly diverse forms of media even closer together.
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It takes only a few minutes to see why YouTube.com has rocketed to the top of the Internet -- hilarious amateur dance routines, a hypnotic juggler, a Hong Kong bus fight and the most incredible caterpillar you've ever seen crawling across a floor.
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Google's video-sharing site launches country-specific YouTube sites.
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com. While recording and film industry interests have hammered away at the sharing of music and videos files over the Internet, the creative artists who actually produce the content welcome the Internet
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Web sites with user-generated content have an obligation to deploy &quot;state of the art&quot; filtering technology to prevent the unauthorized posting of copyright material, a group of large broadcasting and Web companies said Thursday.The companies, including Microsoft, MySpace, CBS, and video site Dailymotion, call on other social-networking and user-generated content sites to regularly use filtering technology to remove infringing content. Those sites should develop procedures for addressing copyright infringement claims, and they should upgrade the filtering technology regularly, the companies said.Those principles were part of a set of guidelines the companies released Thursday. The guidelines were designed to help Web sites work with copyright owners on the &quot;collective goal of bringing more content to more consumers through legitimate channels,&quot; the companies said.The guidelines came out two days after YouTube parent Google announced the availability of a test version of&#160;filtering technology to keep copyright works off the popular video-sharing site. Media conglomerate Viacom, which has&#160;targeted YouTube with frequent video take-down notices, is one of the companies that signed on to the copyright use principles.The principles &quot;provide a framework for intellectual property to live in harmony with technical advances,&quot; Philippe Dauman, Viacom&#39;s president and CEO, said in a statement. &quot;These principles will enable innovative technology and great content to come together to spur greater innovation and, most importantly, much richer entertainment experiences for consumers.&quot;Spokesmen for YouTube didn&#39;t respond to a request for comments on the principles.However, Public Knowledge, a group promoting consumer rights online, called the YouTube filtering technology a &quot;sad development.&quot;&quot;It&#39;s a shame that Google was pressured by the entertainment industry into devoting resources to a limited system that could restrict the free flow of information while increasing the control content companies have over otherwise lawful uses of material,&quot; Public Knowledge president Gigi B. Sohn said by e-mail.The YouTube Video Identification Database is designed to match images posted on YouTube with material submitted by copyright holders. The default option will block a video that a copyright holder claims is unauthorized, but this default will limit consumers&#39; fair use rights to post video for purposes such as commentary and criticism, Public Knowledge said.&quot;While Google should be commended for its effort, we don&#39;t think that any automated process will be able to determine whether a consumer&#39;s fair use rights are being violated,&quot; Sohn said. &quot;Google should make certain the system balances public rights with the rights of content companies.&quot;But the companies supporting the copyright principles said filtering technology is necessary because the ease of uploading video content on the Internet has resulted in the proliferation of uploaded content that infringes copyright works.The principles are an &quot;important step forward in establishing the Internet as a great platform for video content -- a platform that allows services to innovate and preserves incentives for all creators, big and small, by respecting copyright,&quot; Steve Ballmer, Microsoft&#39;s CEO, said in a statement.
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Despite much public ado about piracy at YouTube, research released on Friday showed that the Google-owned website is thriving and many visitors are looking for homemade works.
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Universal Music Group, the world's largest record company, contends the wildly popular Web sites YouTube and MySpace are violating copyright laws by allowing users to post music videos and other content involving Universal artists.
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A dispute between an atheist group and a creationist group over some postings on YouTube  has critics of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act crying foul. They say it's a new and disturbing trend, and that false copyright claims can distort political and cultural debate.
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(InfoWorld) - ViacomÂ has sued Google, alleging copyright infringement from video-sharing site YouTube and seeking $1 billion in damages. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, follows a DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) requestÂ Viacom sent to Google last monthÂ related to the unauthorized posting of Viacom videos to YouTube. At the time,Â Viacom demanded that GoogleÂ remove more than 100,000 of its clipsÂ from YouTube, which Google acquired last year for $1.65 billion. Google said it would comply with the request. In escalating its battle with YouTube with this lawsuit, Viacom reiterates that YouTube has allowed and benefitted from "massive intentional" copyright violations of Viacom videos. In addition to $1 billion inÂ damages, Viacom is asking the court for an injunction barring Google and YouTube from continuing the alleged infringement, Viacom said Tuesday in a statement. Google stands ready to fight the allegations and is confident that "YouTube has respected the legal rights of copyright holders," a Google spokesman said via e-mail. "We will certainly not let this suit become a distraction to the continuing growth and strong performance of YouTube and its ability to attract more users, more traffic, and build a stronger community," he wrote. Almost 160,000 Viacom video clips have been uploaded to YouTube without permission and have been viewed over 1.5 billion times, Viacom alleges. "YouTube is a significant, for-profit organization that has built a lucrative business out of exploiting the devotion of fans to others' creative works in order to enrich itself and its corporate parent Google," Viacom charged in the statement. Google and YouTube illegally profit from the traffic that the unauthorized videos draw to their sites by selling advertising, according to Viacom, which added that YouTube has been lax in its attempts to stop its users from uploading copyrighted videos without permission. Viacom decided to sue Google after negotiations and other measures failed to halt the alleged copyright infringement in YouTube, Viacom said. Viacom is a media conglomerate whose properties include MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, Nick at Nite, Comedy Central, and Paramount Pictures. The case is unlikely to result in a total shutdown of YouTube because legitimate uses of the site exist beyond the potentially illegal activities Viacom is objecting to, said Sheldon Klein, an attorney specializing in intellectual-property matters and a partner at Arent Fox LLP in Washington, D.C. However, Google may find itself liable to the infringement claims if Viacom proves that Google and YouTube didn't do all that was possible to prevent users from uploading copyrighted videos without permission, especially after being served with the DMCA notice last month, Klein said. Specifically, if YouTube and Google haven't implemented available technology that would allow them to do a better job of filtering out infringing videos, Viacom could have a legitimate argument in saying they're not trying hard enough, he said. A check of YouTube at noon Eastern time showed multiple instances of Viacom-owned videos, including clips from Comedy Central's "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" and from Nickelodeon's "SpongeBob SquarePants." One of the "SpongeBob" clips found, for example, has been on YouTube since Feb. 5 of this year, while one of "The Daily Show" clips was uploaded in October of last year. Google executives have said the company is developing technology to address the issue of infringing downloads on YouTube and have promised to deliver it in the near future. Google didn't immediately provide an explanation of what, if any, filtering and detection technology exists in YouTube today. In the meantime, competitorsÂ such asÂ News Corp.'s MySpace, which also lets users upload videos to its site, have licensed third-party systems for detecting infringing videos. There are a number of companies that make this type of software, including Audible Magic, the one chosen by MySpace.
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YouTube announced deals that will provide its users with more legitimate music video and professional basketball content.
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YouTube makes its debut, and the mass hysteria of video sharing is off and running.
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Warner Music Group Corp. has agreed to distribute and license its copyrighted songs and other material through online video trendsetter YouTube Inc., marking another significant step in the entertainment industry's migration to the Internet.
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A $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit accuses the video-sharing site of "brazen disregard" for intellectual property laws. By the Associated Press.
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The media giant is a star on YouTube.
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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; [...]