DMCA News

P2P:- From the look of it, Canada will next week be in the throes of a general election and if that's the case, Bill C-61, Canada's version of America's corporate-inspired DMCA will die.

Drew Wilson's article on ZeroPaid make the following important point: Still, is it the end of the Canadian DMCA? Maybe as we know it today, but the copyright debates are far from over.

Politics:- Bill C-61 is Canada's answer to America's corporate-inspired DMCA which has been, and continues to be, responsible for more grief and misery for people who really care about music than any other ...

While the company still has substantial cash reserves, falling subscriber numbers and no apparent way to differentiate itself from iTunes, Amazon or even the Rhapsody MTV alliance are forcing a sale more than ...

IO Group v. Veoh Networks, Inc. , 5:2006cv03926 We spend so much time thinking about and debating 17 USC 512 that it's easy to lose sight of how few cases really interpret the statute.

Could the decision to throw out a copyright infringement case against Veoh have an impact on the $1 billion lawsuit Viacom is currently pursuing against YouTube ? The U.S. District Court has dismissed a ...

Ottawa's Keith Rose is blogging on copyright, specifically tacking issues around automated notices and recent ruling on the need to take Fair Use into consideration for DMCA take-down notices.

Online video sharing service Veoh scored a major victor in a copyright case when a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by a gay porn distributor claiming the upstart's site facilitated the infringement of ...

We've been patient with studio and entertainment execs. All this newfangled "internet" stuff is a lot to digest.

In an important ruling handed down yesterday, a federal district court threw out a copyright infringement suit brought by adult video producer Io Group against Veoh, concluding that the video hosting site ...

This won't resolve Viacom v. Google, or any of the other knotty copyright disputes roiling the Web.

Dismiss YouTube to Veoh: Thanks for the Legal Help. No Hard Feelings if We Put You Out of Business, OK? Posted at 10:35 AM PT on August 28, 2008 Looks like Google has a new club with which to smite Viacom and ...

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In a summary judgement issued today, Judge Howard Lloyd of the Northern California Federal District Court declared that online video site Veoh can not be held liable for copyright infringement in a case brought ...

"The legal dispute decided Wednesday centers on a rarely used clause in the DMCA -- originally approved by Congress in 1998 -- allowing victims of meritless takedown notices to seek damages, in a bid to deter ...

Despite the repercussions of downloading media via illegal peer-to-peer applications, over 90 percent of ISU students who lived on-campus during the 2007- 2008 school year used P2P software.

Many people remark about how similar Bill C-61 is to the USA's DMCA. While Industry Minister Jim Prentice claims that things like the time and device shifting are "made in Canada" ), these types of changes were ...

The micro-messaging service Twitter tonight suspended the accounts of users don_draper and peggyolson .

The removal of content from the Internet needs more safeguards. Right now, it's just too easy to make unsubstantiated claims that lead online services providers to block lawful content.