YouTube’s actions in response to a subpoena it received in May show that it has been keeping tabs on users who post copyrighted material to its site — and in one case shared the name of a user with lawyers from a Hollywood film studio. On May 24, lawyers for Viacom Inc.’s Paramount Pictures convinced a federal judge in San Francisco to issue a subpoena requiring YouTube to turn over details about a user who uploaded dialog from the movie studio’s “Twin Towers,” according to a copy of the document. YouTube promptly handed over the data to Paramount, which on June 16 sued the creator of the 12-minute clip, New York City-based filmmaker Chris Moukarbel, for copyright infringement, in federal court in Washington.
Read this story from MarketWatch, YouTube’s no friend to copyright violators from C|Net, Google quizzed over YouTube plans from BBC Technology News, YouTube names names: why is anyone surprised? from Ars and in related news, YouTube cuts 30,000 illegal clips from the BBC Technology News with commentary from Ars.
Previously from WNM: Is trading copy-protected content a fundamental aspect of social networking? and Acquiesing to the user-centered Internet.
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October 30, 2006 at 11:09 pm
[...] Read this article from the BBC Technology News plus YouTube and copyright, etiquette and law from ZDNet and Universal drops legal hammer on video sites from Ars. Previously from WNM: YouTube keeps it (as) legal (as possible) [...]
November 5, 2006 at 7:48 pm
[...] Read this article from the Washington Post, Google in bid to halt YouTube legal threat from the Financial Times and Google ‘acts on YouTube threat’ from the BBC Technology News to explore the Google / YouTube copyright conundrum. Commentary from Ars and ZDNet. Previously from WNM: YouTube keeps it (as) legal (as possible) and GooTube keeps it (as) legal (as possible) Now powerful entertainment conglomerates increasingly want these sites to strip themselves of copyright material. But the nail-biting truth is that while strides are being made in developing ways to weed out copyright work in audio files, little headway has been made in finding an effective way to review video. [...]