Web, media companies issue copyright 'use principles'
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Consumer rights advocates are decrying a "statement of principles" issued by various large broadcasting and media companies Thursday. The guidelines urge sites with user-generated content to deploy filtering technology that, experts say, has been proven to hamper various forms of fair use.
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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) this week published a final version of its âArchitecture of the World Wide Web, Volume 1â document, looking to set forth codified principles for the Web itself.
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A software company and its parent are claiming they hold patent rights to widely used Internet song-swapping technology, and they are demanding that several file-sharing networks obtain licenses in order to continue operating.-The Washington Post
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Industry groups are looking for a way around controversial copyright proposal.
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By MICHAEL LIEDTKE  SAN FRANCISCO - The Associated Press will intensify its efforts to protect its copyrights on the Web and possibly uncover new sources of revenue by working with a Silicon Valley startup that's trying to help the media gain more control over digital content.
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Memorandum of understanding with four American and British trade associations aimed at enforcement of copyright.
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A battle over copyright infringement on the Internet heats up. No, not over music. Over the classic 'Gone With the Wind.'
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An impressive coalition of media companies on Thursday will release a list of guidelines for protecting copyrights online, according to The Journal.
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By Xie Chuanjiao  The traditional definition of copyright alone cannot protect artists' rights on their soundtracks, images and performances in the age of the Net, officials have said, detailing for the first time the methods of doing so.
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Viacom Inc, Walt Disney Co, Microsoft  Corp and other media companies have agreed to a set of  guidelines to protect copyrights online but Google Inc, owner  of the Web's biggest video site, was notably absent from the  pact.
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The US Supreme Court on Friday agreed to consider whether Internet file-trading networks should be held responsible when their users copy music, movies and other protected works without permission.
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A Los Angeles Times story published yesterday revealed that the new Copyright Alliance, made up of content and recording industry leaders and supported by Rep. Howard Berman (D - Calif.), has as its key mission the establishment of a system of rates which both terrestrial and Internet-based radio stations would pay as performance royalties.
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Companies say they want to encourage growth of user-generated content online without violating the copyrights of the content owners.
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The patent Apple is seeking covers the &quot;methods and systems for submitting media to a media distribution site. [... The submission of media to the media distribution site is able to be performed
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By ALEX VEIGA LOS ANGELES - 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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Should creators insist on copy protection and other technologies to block the unauthorized spread of their works? That's the first question in a week-long debate on Bits between Rick Cotton, the general counsel of NBC Universal, and Tim Wu, a professor at Columbia Law School.
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Should prices for blank media and recording products include a royalty fee to copyright holders for presumed losses to piracy?