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Copyright dramas no happy birthday to YouTube

(PhysOrg.com) -- The internet's most successful video-sharing website, YouTube, which celebrates its fifth birthday this month, faces a far less vibrant future if copyright squabbles put an end to creative re-uses of media ...

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created May 25, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

China says software piracy declines -- to 19 billion dollars

China said Monday that software piracy had dropped off slightly last year, but admitted the thriving market was still valued at nearly 19 billion dollars.

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created May 10, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Hitler `Downfall' parodies removed from YouTube

(AP) -- Adolf Hitler, for years a vessel of frustration in a popular Internet meme, has been quieted.

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created Apr 21, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

Draft trade agreement worries technology companies

(AP) -- Technology companies and public interest groups are warning that an international trade agreement being drafted could expose Internet access providers, Web search engines and other online businesses to damaging legal ...

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created Apr 20, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New round of documents aired in Viacom-Google case

(AP) -- Before it bought online video service YouTube, employees of Google Inc. believed YouTube's business was risky because it relied on pirated content and recommended pursuing a different strategy, newly released documents ...

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created Apr 16, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

'Three strikes' for the Web

Faced with a pandemic of online piracy, Hollywood studios and the major record labels have pressed governments around the world to make it easier for them to enforce their copyrights. In particular, they've tried to shift ...

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created Apr 15, 2010 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (6) | comments 18

NY suit vs. Google seeks damages for pictures, art

(AP) -- Groups representing photographers and artists on Wednesday accused Internet search leader Google of copyright infringement in a lawsuit that mirrors complaints book publishers and authors have made for years about ...

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created Apr 08, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 3

Photographers sue over Google book-scanning project

US photographers and illustrators sued Google for copyright infringement on Wednesday demanding compensation for images that appear in books being digitally scanned by the Internet giant.

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created Apr 07, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

YouTube creators cashed in big on sale to Google: documents

YouTube's creators walked away with hundreds of millions of dollars after the startup was bought by Google in 2006, according to documents released in a copyright brawl between Viacom and Google.

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created Mar 19, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Decision on Google library likely to change publishing indelibly

Google has been busy. The Internet giant has been copying and storing millions of the world's out-of-print and out-of-copyright books in a vast online archive. It could all be just a mouse click away from your computer screen ...

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created Mar 19, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Viacom, YouTube air dirty laundry in legal battle

(AP) -- Viacom Inc. and Google Inc.'s YouTube site began airing each other's dirty laundry Thursday, providing a tantalizing peek at the wheeling and dealing that triggered a bitter battle over the copyright ...

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created Mar 18, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Viacom-YouTube secrets to be exposed in lawsuit

(AP) -- A legal tussle pitting media conglomerate Viacom Inc. against online video leader YouTube is about to get dirtier as a federal judge prepares to release documents that will expose their secrets and other confidential ...

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created Mar 17, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Google's library project forces important media decisions

Sometime in the near future, a federal judge will decide whether Google can proceed with its plan to create a digital library and bookstore out of millions of old books scanned from libraries around the world.

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created Mar 11, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Child porn, ID theft drive record cyber crime in Japan

Internet crime in Japan jumped to a new record last year, led by ID theft and database attacks, child pornography posts and copyright violations, the national police agency said Thursday.

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created Mar 04, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Hollywood lodges appeal in Internet piracy case

Hollywood film studios Thursday lodged an appeal against a landmark legal judgment which found an Australian Internet provider was not responsible for illegal movie downloads by its customers.

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created Feb 25, 2010 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0