Latest Digital Millennium Copyright Act Stories
Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Twitter users are given 140 characters to say or share whatever they like, with some caveats. For instance, groups suspected of neo-Nazi ties are likely to have their Tweets blocked by Twitter and the German government. In fact, Twitter announced in January they’d given themselves the right to block Tweets from specific countries while keeping it available for the rest of the world. Now, tweets which contain links to pirated...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online The latest set of exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which go into effect today, make it legal to jailbreak smartphones, but not tablet computers, the US Copyright Office has declared. According to Sam Byfordon of The Verge, the Copyright Office agreed to permit the unlocking of phones so that they would work on any wireless carrier, but declined to extend the same protection to devices such as the iPad and...
NEW YORK, Oct 26, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Organization for Transformative Works (OTW) has successfully obtained a DMCA exemption from the Librarian of Congress allowing noncommercial remix makers to use short clips from DVDs in remixes. Working with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the OTW successfully supported a similar exemption in 2009, which was renewed with some changes. The OTW's Legal Advocacy project was formed to protect and defend fanworks from...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Beginning next week, Google's search algorithm will be altered to punish websites which receive multiple valid copyright violation notices from users, the Mountain View, California-based company announced Friday. According to Cyrus Farivar of Ars Technica, the policy revision will result in those pages which receive higher rates of removal requests to see their standing in the search-engine results decrease. Farivar notes that...
An American appeals court has ruled to revive a lawsuit filed by Viacom against Google regarding copyrighted material being uploaded to YouTube, various media outlets reported Thursday. According to SlashGear's Rue Liu and Reuters' Jonathan Stempel and Yinka Adegoke, Thursday's decision by the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals reverses a June 2010 ruling in favor of YouTube and Google which stated that under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA), a website could not be held liable for...
YouTube announced on Wednesday it will partner with Paramount Pictures to bring movie rentals to the popular video-sharing site. Despite their long-standing legal proceedings with Paramount’s parent company, Viacom Inc., YouTube said it would offer movie rentals of nearly 500 Paramount movies. New films, such as “Hugo” can be rented alongside older films, such as “The Godfather,” according to Reuters. Speaking with the Associated Press (AP), Malik Ducard, director of online...
Hot on the heels of MPAA's suit against Megaupload, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has set its sights on file hosting service Hotfile.com. A public redacted version of court documents filed in the U.S. District Court Southern District of Florida were released this week. Hotfile Corp. and Anton Titov, who operates Hotfile.com, were named as defendants. In the legal document, the MPAA describes the digital locker site as "a system that enables copyright infringement on a...
Jedidiah Becker for RedOrbit Racking up somewhere between 10 and 13 million new users in just 10 months, the online pinboard Pinterest has taken the world of social media by storm. Yet wary of seeing its dazzling success curbed by legal controversy, the California-based startup is already taking preemptive measures to avoid entanglement in potential copyright controversies. Adding some 11 million unique visitors in January alone to its statistics — up from an already impressive 4.9...
WebHostingBuzz will be blacking out its site on January 18th in protest of SOPA and PIPA as the company believes that the current form of legislation is harmful for the future of the Internet. (PRWEB) January 17, 2012 In conjunction with dozens of Internet properties and online communities, UK and US-based web hosting company WebHostingBuzz will be going gray on January 18th to protest upcoming legislation for SOPA and PIPA. For many months, WebHostingBuzz has been a member of the...
TRENTON, N.J., Nov. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --A recent court ruling has brought a hard-fought struggle for consumer choice one step closer to trial. The case involves an ongoing dispute between Continuant, an independent provider of telecom maintenance, and AT&T descendant, Avaya. Continuant asserts that Avaya is violating U.S. antitrust laws by locking customers out of their choice of independent service providers to perform even basic maintenance. On November 4, 2011, the Honorable...
