Jeff Roberts
Feb 10, 2012 2:43 PM
Copyright clouds are gathering around Pinterest. And that could make the dreamy image site an unlikely successor to other innovators—from Grokster to the Beastie Boys—who walked a fine legal line between sharing and theft.
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Jeff Roberts
Jan 28, 2012 11:10 AM
Why does Twitter get involved in so many interesting lawsuits? In its short life, the company has kicked up legal hornet nests involving everything from stalking to satire. While technology companies always outgrow the laws that govern them, Twitter’s 140-character message system is proving to be particularly disruptive. At the…
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Jeff Roberts
Laura Hazard Owen
Jan 18, 2012 8:14 AM
Plagiarized editions for sale in Amazon’s Kindle store show how the company is still adapting to the world of original content creation. At the same time, the stolen books may also present a test of the retailer’s ability to rely on a widely used legal shield that protects content sites…
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Jeff Roberts
Dec 21, 2011 3:15 PM
A California appeals court yesterday rejected Universal Music’s claim that video-sharing service Veoh didn’t do enough to protect content owners. All eyes now turn to New York where another influential court is set to rule on the same issue—who should be responsible for copyright enforcement.
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Jeff Roberts
Dec 13, 2011 10:10 AM
The entertainment world is buzzing about a viral video that shows A-list artists like Kanye West and Alicia Keyes singing the praises of file sharing service, Megaload. Universal and others have responded by yanking the video from YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) for copyright reasons—and now Megaupload is suing to get a…
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Rafat Ali
Aug 28, 2008 12:46 AM
Updated below: No, this isn’t the big one, but nonetheless an important precedent: A federal judge in San Jose ruled today that video-sharing site Veoh was not liable for copyrighted material uploaded to its site, dismissing an early 2006 case filed against it by Io Group, an adult video firm.…
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