Copyright Claim Erases 'Here Comes Another Bubble' Parody Video From YouTube
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A creative clip titled "Here Comes Another Bubble" gets popped due to a copyright claim from an unnamed third party.
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Can homegrown software help Google and YouTube defuse a $1 billion lawsuit from Viacom? That&#39;s the question underlying the announcement that Google is about to test a new system to ferret out unauthorized film and video clips on YouTube.
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Musician intends to win back control of his copyright on the Web.
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Volkswagen files a subpoena for the identity of a YouTube user who posted a Nazi-themed parody of a recent VW Golf commercial. The move highlights the privacy risks for users of video-sharing and social-networking sites, and no law requires the sites need to notify users of those subpoenas.
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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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Plus: Was Einstein a plagiarist? [News.com Extra]
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By David Hayes, The Kansas City Star, Mo.  Sep. 24--Video isn't new to the Internet.   Eight years ago, just about anyone with an e-mail address received a copy of an animated video with a diaper-clad baby doing the Macarena.
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The YouTube Effect is amazing -- and potentially goofy.
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(InfoWorld) - A group of 23 Japanese entertainment industry associations and broadcasters has yet to receive a response from YouTubeÂ toÂ complaints raised earlier this monthÂ regarding copyright infringement on the popular online video site. The Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers (JASRAC) sent a letter with the signature of the 23 organizations to YouTube Chief Executive Officer Chad Hurley and Chief Technology Officer Steve Chen on Dec. 5, urging the company to take a more proactive approach in identifying and removing copyrighted material from the site. In the letter they asked for a reply no later than Dec. 15. "We haven't received a reply yet, but Dec. 15 has only just begun in the U.S.," said Kosuke Hayashi, a spokesman for JASRAC in Tokyo. "I don't think they'll ignore the letter and we might get something later in the [U.S. Pacific time] day." YouTube didn't respond late Thursday to a request for comment. Shortly after the letter was sent, YouTube confirmed in a brief statement that it had been received and was being reviewed. "Meanwhile we will continue to provide content companies in Japan and elsewhere with tools to easily notify us of unauthorized uses of their content so we can promptly remove it, in accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act," it said. At present YouTube deals with copyright infringement by asking rights holders to send complaints in written form by postal mail, e-mail or fax with details of the clips claimed to infringed copyright and other documents. The clips are then deleted if the documents sent satisfy YouTube as to the infringement claims. In their letter the Japanese rights holders called on YouTube to create an alternative to this procedure that would in part utilize technology to identify infringing clips as they are uploaded or published. It followed theÂ deletion by YouTube of almost 30,000 video clipsÂ in October after a group of content companies complained to the site. However, no sooner had the clips been deleted than new ones began appearing on the site to take their place. YouTube has been growing in popularity among Japanese Internet users. This has surprised some observers as the site doesn't offer a Japanese language interface or instructions. As part of their request the rights holders want YouTube to post a message on its home page in Japanese that warns against uploading copyrighted content. In addition to JASRAC, the other names on the letter include the Motion Picture Producers' Association of Japan, the Japan Video Software Association, the Association of Japanese Animations, all of the major commercial TV broadcasters, the Japan Satellite Broadcasting Association, the Recording Industry Association of Japan and Yahoo Japan.
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Viacom, the parent company of MTV, is suing Google for $1 Billion in damages brought about via alleged copyright violations as Viacom claims that its material was illegally uploaded and distrubted via Google &#038; YouTube. Viacom made a statement today saying that YouTube has &#8220;built a lucrative business out of exploiting the devotion of fans to [...]
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By CARL FREIRE TOKYO - Popular video-sharing Web site YouTube Inc. has agreed to post Japanese language warnings about respecting copyrights in an attempt to prevent users from uploading copyrighted materials, a Japanese entertainment body said.
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Production house Flach claims 50,000 downloads from Google Video of a film skewering President Bush is copyright infringement that cost the producer big sales revenue. And Google has other troubles in Europe. In Gear Factor. In Gear Factor.
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YouTube, which has had to pull  copyrighted videos off its site after legal attacks by some big  media franchises, has enjoyed a surge in U.S. audience share  that leaves it far larger than the next 64 video-sharing sites  combined, a survey found.
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YouTube, the video-sharing site owned by Google Inc., agreed to remove more than 100,000 clips produced by Viacom Inc. after they were posted without permission.
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Blog: The Electronic Freedom Founddation (EFF) has filed suit against the Universal Music Publishing Group in response to Universal's previous action to remove a short home video from You Tube featuring music content protected by a copyright.
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Seeks identities of those who posted film clips on YouTube.
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A court case alleging copyright infringement against a Web site using a popular song in a political parody ended abruptly when an Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) investigation revealed that Woody Guthrie&#39;s &quot;This Land is Your Land&quot; is in the public