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EU Pirate purgatory after copyright clampdown

Ben Kersey

Looks like the copyright police are starting to hit back at the internet in a big bad way. A German court ruled today that YouTube is entirely responsible for the content found on its service, and must actively filter music videos belonging to the GEMA, a music royalty group. Not only that, but the European

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20 Apr 2012

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Apple docked $118,000 by China court for violating authors' copyrights

www.engadget.com Steve Dent 27 days ago

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Apple will have to pay three Chinese authors a total of $118,000 for stocking their books in its App Store without a proper say-so, according to China Daily. A court ruled that it was Apple's job to verify that third-party uploads met copyright requirements and that it had the means to do so since all the books in question were best-sellers. Apple's attorney declined to comment, but the court also suggested that similar online retailers should learn from the case "and improve their verification system" -- bringing perhaps another headache to would-be e-book stores in that nation.Filed under:... Read similar

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Tech Giants Dive Into Music Streaming

www.businessinsider.com Poornima Gupta and Ronald Grover 61 days ago

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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Technology giants Apple, Google and Amazon are furiously maneuvering for position in the online music business and looking at ways to make streaming profitable, despite the fact that pioneer Pandora has never made a profit. It has been more than a decade since the iPod heralded the revival of Apple and presaged the smartphone revolution, even as music-sharing site Napster was showing the disruptive power of the Internet in the music business. Now Google, Amazon.com Inc and Apple are among the Silicon Valley powerhouses sounding out top recording industry executives, a... Read similar

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RIAA copyright takedown requests to Google reach 10 million

www.engadget.com Jon Fingas 105 days ago

Something tells us they won't be handing out gold watches for this milestone. Just eight months after Google added copyright takedown requests to its Transparency Report, the search firm can claim to have almost exactly 10 million such requests from the RIAA. A dive into the numbers very quickly explains just how they built up so quickly. The RIAA and the music labels attached to it have topped at least the most recent monthly requests, and they're collectively issuing hundreds of thousands of notices every week. We certainly don't expect the industry group to hang up its hat just because it... Read similar

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Yahoo, Quantcast Continue To Support Pirate Content Sites With Ads

www.businessinsider.com Josh L. Dickey 96 days ago

As some major online ad networks scramble to pull away from pirated content sites, more just rush in to take their place. All the while, ads for dozens of high-profile brands are still regularly appearing on infringing sites -- including from companies with skin in the game like AT&T and Disney, though they're not complicit in the practice -- according to Annenberg Innovation Lab at USC's second monthly Ad Transparency Report, released Wednesday. The first report, which drew on a year's worth of data spanning 2012, showed Google and Yahoo among top offenders for pirate-site ad placement la... Read similar

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Supreme Court Refuses to Hear $220k Music Piracy Case

feeds.mashable.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 64 days ago

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Jammie Thomas-Rasset won't have her day in court at the highest judicial authority in the United States. On Monday, the Supreme Court declined to hear the case of the famous music pirate who was sentenced to pay $220,000 for downloading 24 songs with the now-defunct file-sharing software Kazaa.In 2007, Thomas-Rasset became the first person to go to trial against the Recording Industry Association of America, when she refused to settle her case after receiving a piracy cease-and-desist letter in August 2005. In the mid-2000s, the RIAA sued thousands of Americans for copyright infringements; Tho... Read similar

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YouTube Announces That It Has Hit One Billion Monthly Users, Which Is Roughly Ten Super Bowl Audiences

techcrunch.com Drew Olanoff 62 days ago

Today, YouTube announced that it has hit a billion monthly users, which is an extremely insane metric. We know that YouTube is the go-to place for silly, interesting and important videos, but these numbers are something that even TV networks dream of. The great part for YouTube is that this means that online video ad-spend will go up, since the eyeballs appear to be ready, willing and able. It’s not only advertisers that are rushing YouTube, budding music artists are heading there too, and making a career from the attention that they get. Fueling this insane growth is the availability of... Read similar

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A Court Is About To Determine The Fate Of Software Patents And The Implications Are Massive

www.businessinsider.com Erin Geiger Smith 103 days ago

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A federal appeals court is set to consider a case closely watched by Google Inc, Facebook Inc and other technology companies that could determine how far the patent system should go in protecting software inventions. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which specializes in patent cases, will hear arguments on Friday over whether patents should be granted for business methods whose main innovation is that they require the use of a computer. Only some business methods can be patented, an issue that has gone to the U.S. Supreme Court. CLS Bank International, which runs a foreign-ex... Read similar

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Appeals court denies ReDigi appeal, says music downloads can't be resold

www.engadget.com Jon Fingas 50 days ago

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ReDigi took a gamble that it could resell legally purchased song downloads, much as you would that one-hit wonder CD you bought in high school. Unfortunately for ReDigi, the odds weren't ultimately in its favor: a Southern District of New York court has shot down ReDigi's appeal against a Capitol Records lawsuit accusing it of copyright infringement. The court didn't accept ReDigi's view that first sale principles apply to strictly digital music, at least as its service implements the technology. While the startup tries to keep traders honest by making them delete originals after a resale, t... Read similar

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Torrent Site Pirate Bay Claims To Have Moved Servers To North Korea

www.businessinsider.com Geoffrey Ingersoll 78 days ago

The Pirate Bay, a popular bit torrent website, is claiming they've found a new source of refuge: the "hermit kingdom" North Korea. Various international litigators have chased The Pirate Bay all around the globe, insisting they cease and desist aiding anonymous internet users seeking cheap access to high-end, pirated content. From Torrentfreak: Last week the Swedish Pirate Party was forced to shut down its routing services to The Pirate Bay. The Party and its leaders took this difficult decision after they were threatened with a lawsuit by a local anti-piracy group. Piratebay an... Read similar

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Guatemala Is Planning To Send John McAfee Back To Belize

www.businessinsider.com Sofia Menchu and Lomi Kriel 167 days ago

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Guatemalan police arrested U.S. software guru John McAfee on Wednesday for illegally entering the country and said it would seek to expel him to neighboring Belize, which he fled after being sought for questioning over his neighbor's murder. McAfee, who had been in hiding for three weeks, crossed into Guatemala with his 20-year-old girlfriend to evade authorities in Belize who wanted to quiz him as "a person of interest" about the killing of fellow American Gregory Faull. "He entered the country illegally and we are going to seek his expulsion for this crime," Interior Minister Mauricio Lopez ... Read similar

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Gangnam Style Sensation PSY Will Rake In $7.9 Million This Year

www.businessinsider.com Ryan Nakashima 168 days ago

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — As "Gangnam Style" gallops toward 1 billion views on YouTube, the first Asian pop artist to capture a massive global audience has gotten richer click by click. So too has his agent and his grandmother. But the money from music sales isn't flowing in from the rapper's homeland South Korea or elsewhere in Asia. With one song, 34-year-old Park Jae-sang — better known as PSY — is set to become a millionaire from YouTube ads and iTunes downloads, underlining a shift in how money is being made in the music business. An even bigger dollop of cash will come ... Read similar

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German court invalidates Apple’s slide-to-unlock patent

www.slashgear.com Brian Sin 45 days ago

A German court has ruled that all claims for Apple’s slide-to-unlock patent have been found to be invalid. The ruling was made in Germany’s federal patent court, Bundespatentgericht, and is a big win for Motorola and Samsung, both companies who were affected by the patent. Apple has, in the past, used the patent in order Read The Full StoryRead similar

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YouTube still protected under DMCA, says Judge, Viacom sent packing

www.engadget.com Sean Buckley 33 days ago

YouTube trends may have changed over the last few years, but the company's legal standing hasn't: according to a federal judge, the DMCA still protects the streaming site from Viacom's copyright claims. The ruling responds to Viacom's appeal of a 2010 case, which stated that YouTube couldn't be held responsible for copyright infringing content uploaded by its users. Viacom sought to revise the ruling, insisting that YouTube was "willfully blind" of the activity. That may be the case, but Judge Louis Stanton sees things differently. "Knowledge of the prevalence of infringing activity, and wel... Read similar

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Your Kid Is Just Three Clicks Away From Nudity And Violence

www.businessinsider.com Josh Halliday 106 days ago

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Children who view clips of Sesame Street and Peppa Pig on YouTube are on average just three clicks away from explicit adult material on the site, including nudity and violence, according to research. A study released to mark Safer Internet Day on Tuesday found that graphic footage was available to children who had viewed clips of popular kids' TV programmes. In one example, YouTube users were two clicks away from footage of a woman giving birth after viewing a Sesame Street video, said the security company Kaspersky, which carried out the research. The list of recommended videos, displayed on ... Read similar

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US District Court: Users can't legally resell iTunes songs

www.tuaw.com Kelly Hodgkins 50 days ago

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U.S. District Judge Richard Sullivan ruled in favor of Universal Music Group in a case involving the resale of songs bought on iTunes, reports AllThingsD. UMG filed the suits against startup ReDigi, a service that lets users resell their music library. In a judgement filed over the weekend, Judge Sullivan shot down the multiple arguments ReDigi used to defend its practice of reselling songs. Sullivan said in his decision that consumers can't sell their music library without consent from the copyright owners. This kills the practice as large music companies like Universal are not likely to ap... Read similar

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Cybercrime Network Based in Spain Is Broken Up

bits.blogs.nytimes.com By THE NEW YORK TIMES 97 days ago

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Europol, the European police agency, said Wednesday that it had dismantled one of the most efficient cybercrime organizations to date, led by Russians who had managed to extort millions of euros from online users across more than 30 countries - mostly European - by persuading them to pay spurious police fines for abusive use of the Internet.Read similar

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News: Court rules iTunes songs can’t be resold

www.ilounge.com Phil Dzikiy 50 days ago

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A federal court has ruled that startup ReDigi can’t resell iTunes songs, as it has claimed it could. U.S. District Judge Richard Sullivan granted a partial summary judgment in favor of Universal Music Group’s Capitol Records, as Universal sued ReDigi for copyright violation. Sullivan ruled that users can’t resell digital media files unless given explicit permission by the copyright owner. Notably, a recently published Apple patent… Read similar

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Obama administration believes no warrant is needed for authorities to use GPS tracking on vehicles

www.slashgear.com Shane McGlaun 64 days ago

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federal authorities

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You might think that police or other federal authorities would need to obtain a court order to be able to place a GPS tracking device on your vehicle. That court order is apparently not needed according to the Obama administration. This is despite the fact that the Supreme Court ruled last year that attaching GPS Read The Full StoryRead similar

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YouTube’s Three-Plus Year Copyright Battle With German Music Rights Agency Rumbles On, As GEMA Breaks Off Negotiations

techcrunch.com Natasha Lomas 131 days ago

A copyright dispute that has blocked German YouTube users' access to certain music videos continues to rumble on with little sign of a resolution -- despite being ongoing for more than three years already. Today GEMA, the German music royalties collection agency at the centre of the dispute, announced it has broken off its latest round of negotiations with YouTube.Read similar

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Facebook bests German watchdog in real names court tiff

www.engadget.com Steve Dent 96 days ago

After a German privacy watchdog ordered Facebook to allow the use of fake usernames "immediately," an appeals court has said nein. While the protection body in the tiny state of Schleswig-Holstein argued that Facebook's ban on pseudonyms breached the nation's privacy laws, an administrative court in the region ruled that those laws don't apply to the company, since its European HQ is located in less-stringent Ireland. Facebook argued that requiring the use of real names protects its users, but the regulator said it'll appeal the decision all the same -- thus prolonging the social network's l... Read similar

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