Viacom’s billion dollar lawsuit against Google is getting ugly. The federal court hearing the case has ordered (pdf) Google to provide Viacom with “all data from the Logging database concerning each time a YouTube video has been viewed on the YouTube website or through embedding on a third-party website”.
The ruling brings a new twist to [...]
The controversy over the Richter Scales’ Here Comes Another Bubble appears to be drawing to a close.
The video was taken down from YouTube after photographer Lane Hartwell objected to the unauthorized use of one of her photos in the video. This has led to a great deal of debate over the role of copyright and [...]
The Lane Hartwell copyright controversy has led to a great deal of debate over the role of copyright and fair use in Internet videos.
Hartwell is a professional photographer that publishes her images on Flickr, with all rights reserved. When she saw one of her photos being used without permission or credit in the video Here [...]
Photographer Lane Hartwell is tired of people stealing her photos and reusing them without her permission.
She’s published her images, like a lot of us, on Flickr, with all rights reserved. Unlike most of us, though, Hartwell is a freelance photographer and a regular contributor to Wired News. Her work has featured in publications around the [...]
50 Cent says he isn’t snorting coke, but some in the industry may think that he’s talking like he’s high.
In an interview with P?•l Nordseth in Oslo, Fitty denied taking coke on live TV in Zagreb and then went on to talk about how file-sharing was inevitable and that the music industry needed to figure [...]
Billionaire blogger & HD video guru Mark Cuban has an interesting perspective on the controversy over the issue of Internet companies blocking P2P traffic:
“BLOCK P2P TRAFFIC , PLEASE,” asks Cuban.
“As a consumer, I want my internet experience to be as fast as possible. The last thing I want slowing my internet service down are P2P [...]
A survey (pdf)¬†of music fans in the UK suggests that pricing at Apple’s iTunes music store may be keeping people from buying more legal music downloads, and could be driving people to file-sharing sites. Equally surprising, the survey suggests that most music fans don’t know or care about DRM (Digital Rights Management software).
iTunes Pricing Slowing [...]
Despite the tremendous popularity of legal music downloads, and the widespread availability of free legal music downloads, music piracy is at an all-time high, according to a report out today that urges the record industry to make legal buying easier and cheaper.
Why? A growing band of consumers are unconcerned about being prosecuted for illegal downloads, according to Entertainment Media [...]
While EMI may be eliminating DRM, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has appears to be moving in the opposite direction, announcing its list of its top 25 schools for pirating movies….