Looking over yonder ...<br><br>/Alex <b><i></i></b><br><blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 08:14:51 +0300<br>To: ke-internetusers@bdix.net<br>Subject: [ke-internetusers] Viacom v YouTube/Google<br><br> [actual txt of Viacom complaint: <br> <<a href="http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/Viacom031207.pdf" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/Viacom031207.pdf</a> ><a href="http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/Viacom031207.pdf" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/Viacom031207.pdf</a> ] <br> <br> [benton]<br> <br> VIACOM IN $1 BILLION COPYRIGHT SUIT VERSUS GOOGLE, YOUTUBE<br> [SOURCE: Reuters, AUTHOR: Kenneth Li and Michele Gershberg]<br> Viacom sued Google and its Internet
video-sharing site YouTube for more than $1 billion on Tuesday in the biggest challenge yet to the Web search leader's strategy to dominate the online video market. The lawsuit accuses Google and its popular online video unit of "massive intentional copyright infringement" for allowing users to upload popular shows, threatening ambitions to make YouTube a major entertainment and advertising outlet. The legal challenge from Viacom, home to the MTV and Comedy Central channels, also suggested a wider battle between traditional and Internet media companies that now compete for audiences and advertising dollars.<br> <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSWEN535120070313" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSWEN535120070313</a><br> * Public Knowledge statement: "Without commenting on the specific allegations involved, we note that simply because material is "unauthorized"
does not make its use illegal. There are limitations to copyright law, known as fair use, that do not require the copyright owner's permission before use of a work. Many of the users of YouTube who have posted short clips of main-stream media's works have done so using their fair use rights, for reasons of criticism, comment, education, and news reporting. We are confident YouTube and Google will continue to take appropriate actions in accordance with the safe-harbor provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). By a previous request of Viacom, YouTube has already removed some 100,000 clips."<br> <a href="http://feeds.publicknowledge.org/%7Er/publicknowledge-main/%7E3/101398694/860" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://feeds.publicknowledge.org/~r/publicknowledge-main/~3/101398694/860 </a><br> * Old Viacom doesn't get it, new CBS does<br> <a
href="http://feeds.publicknowledge.org/%7Er/publicknowledge-main/%7E3/101424170/861" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://feeds.publicknowledge.org/~r/publicknowledge-main/~3/101424170/861 </a><br> * Viacom Sues YouTube Over Copyright<br> <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/13/AR2007031300595.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/13/AR2007031300595.html </a><br> * Viacom sues Google's YouTube in $1B copyright suit<br> <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/money/20070314/viacom14.art.htm" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/money/20070314/viacom14.art.htm</a> <br> * Viacom files $1-billion suit over YouTube<br> <a
href="http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-fi-viacom14mar14,1,3638116.story?coll=la-headlines-frontpage" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-fi-viacom14mar14,1,3638116.story?coll=la-headlines-frontpage </a><br> * Viacom Sues Google Over Video Clips on Its Sharing Web Site<br> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/14/technology/14viacom.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/14/technology/14viacom.html</a><br> * Viacom vs. Google: Test of key online law<br> <a href="http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/16899987.htm" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/16899987.htm</a><br> * Viacom v. Google Could Shape Digital Future<br> <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB117379140954435400.html?mod=todays_us_marketplace"
target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://online.wsj.com/article/SB117379140954435400.html?mod=todays_us_marketplace </a><br> <br> YOUTUBE'S FATE RESTS ON DECADE-OLD COPYRIGHT LAW<br> [SOURCE: C-Net|News.com, AUTHOR: Declan McCullagh]<br> Whether YouTube suffers the same fate as Napster may depend on the wording of a nearly antique law written long before video-sharing Web sites were envisioned. The law is, of course, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or DMCA, which made its appearance in the U.S. Congress in July 1997. Central to the question of Google's legal liability is the phrasing of a densely worded portion -- Section 512 -- of the DMCA. Section 512's so-called safe harbor generally lets hosting companies off the hook for legal liability, as long as they don't turn a blind eye to copyright infringement and if they remove infringing material when notified. YouTube does the second part through a formal posted policy, and it
prohibits uploads of unauthorized videos more than 10 minutes in length. But what about the safe harbor's first requirement of not ignoring massive infringement? Viacom's complaint says, "YouTube has failed to employ reasonable measures that could substantially reduce, or eliminate, the massive amount of copyright infringement on the YouTube site from which YouTube directly profits." (For its part, Google says it's confident that YouTube has respected the legal rights of copyright holders and predicts that the courts will agree.)<br> <a href="http://news.com.com/YouTubes+fate+rests+on+decade-old+copyright+law/2100-1028_3-6166862.html?tag=html.alert" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://news.com.com/YouTubes+fate+rests+on+decade-old+copyright+law/2100-1028_3-6166862.html?tag=html.alert </a><br> * Google confident digital liability law protects it<br> <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN1316411620070314"
target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN1316411620070314</a> <br> _______________________________________________<br>ke-internetusers mailing list<br>ke-internetusers@bdix.net<br>http://www.bdix.net/mailman/listinfo/ke-internetusers<br></blockquote><br><p>
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