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14 Articles match "2007","Google","Government"
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Google Defeats Viacom’s Copyright Case with DMCA Safe Harbor
This week, the Southern District of New York granted summary judgment for Google in its one billion dollar case against Viacom, finding that YouTube, which is owned by Google, is protected under the safe harbor of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Viacom, along with other plaintiffs, sued YouTube for copyright infringement.
JetLawBlog
- Friday, June 25, 2010
(Someone Else’s) “Money” – Brought To You By YouTube
The suit was initiated by Viacom in March 2007, stating that YouTube infringes upon copyrighted works by hosting videos posted by its users. Interestingly, though YouTube has been around since February 2005, Viacom didn’t initiate the lawsuit until a few months after Google purchased the Internet start-up (see Deep Pockets ).
JetLawBlog
- Thursday, April 29, 2010
Reed Elsevier Decision May Clear the Way for Google Books
The case may clear the way for broader use of the class action device in copyright infringement cases, including in the pending and controversial Google Books Settlement. 2007). In Reed Elsevier Inc. Muchnick , No. In the Supreme Court’s 2001 New York Times v. New York Times Co. Tasini , 533 U.S. 483 (2001). 116 (2d Cir. 411(a).
JetLawBlog
- Tuesday, April 6, 2010
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Search “Flinch” in Google and You’ll Likely Get “Microsoft” as Result #1
Apparently, Microsoft flinched at the prospect of a multibillion dollar Google legal team pushing the Netscape train through its front doors. Google decided to file suit on antirust grounds on the very same basis that Netscape did all those years ago. And in this staring contest, Microsoft yielded early. NY Times.
BizMediaLaw
- Wednesday, June 20, 2007
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Reed Elsevier Decision May Clear the Way for Google Books
The case may clear the way for broader use of the class action device in copyright infringement cases, including in the pending and controversial Google Books Settlement. 2007). In Reed Elsevier Inc. Muchnick , No. In the Supreme Court’s 2001 New York Times v. New York Times Co. Tasini , 533 U.S. 483 (2001). 116 (2d Cir. 411(a).
JetLawBlog
- Tuesday, April 6, 2010
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Marian the Librarian Gets Jilted or Google's Bad Advice Redux
Andrew Keen calles it " the great seduction ", but the greatest seduction was how Google seduced Marian the Librarian into giving away copies of the works of authorship that the libraries of the world had been entrusted to hold for eternity. Do the same thing in the US by leveraging Google's market power, public money and stupid academics.
Music Technology Policy
- Wednesday, June 3, 2009
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Google Defeats Viacom’s Copyright Case with DMCA Safe Harbor
This week, the Southern District of New York granted summary judgment for Google in its one billion dollar case against Viacom, finding that YouTube, which is owned by Google, is protected under the safe harbor of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Viacom, along with other plaintiffs, sued YouTube for copyright infringement.
JetLawBlog
- Friday, June 25, 2010
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Questionable Employment Practices in High Tech Industry
According to EdibleApple , former Palm CEO recently claimed that in a 2007 meeting, Apple’s Steve Jobs proposed an unusual hiring freeze. It is believed that Apple and Google had such an agreement at least at some point in the recent past. Apple CEO Steve Jobs. 8211; Brian Van Wyk. Image Source.
JetLawBlog
- Wednesday, August 26, 2009
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(Someone Else’s) “Money” – Brought To You By YouTube
The suit was initiated by Viacom in March 2007, stating that YouTube infringes upon copyrighted works by hosting videos posted by its users. Interestingly, though YouTube has been around since February 2005, Viacom didn’t initiate the lawsuit until a few months after Google purchased the Internet start-up (see Deep Pockets ).
JetLawBlog
- Thursday, April 29, 2010
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Parker v. Search Engines, Part II: Challenge to Search Engine Caching Dismissed on Most (But Not All) Grounds
Google, Inc., 2006), a similar copyright infringement action brought by an author who failed to deploy a robots.txt file and whose works were copied and cached by the Google search engine: The district court [in Field v. The court thus concluded that Google had sufficiently established the defense of implied license. Yahoo!,
New Media and Technology Law
- Thursday, October 16, 2008
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The Elusive Lawbytes, Inc.
85,786 in total of what appears to be government money paid to “Lawbytes, Inc.” The only associations that I can find in Google are between Industry Canada and this company. In researching a piece on the well funded Michael Geist , I was searching for his “LawBytes” columns on Industry Canada. Several results, in fact. directly.
Music Technology Policy
- Tuesday, December 1, 2009
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The Geist in the Machine
According to a recent story in the Toronto Globe and Mail , there are rules of Treasury Board of Canada regarding payments made by the government to an individual without competitive bidding or what we Yanks would call a public “request for proposal.” So it is with Lawbytes, Inc. Lawbytes, Inc. are all the same man: Michael Allen Geist.
Music Technology Policy
- Tuesday, January 26, 2010
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New Obama White House web site: 'robots.txt' kerfuffle debunked
It also bespeaks an administration that, at this point, doesn't think it needs to hide its words and actions from the people it governs. It's true that in 2007, the Bush White House did block some files they should not have, which they fixed once I brought it to their attention. Bush-bashers scouring the new Obama-ized (Obamafied?)
Copyrights & Campaigns
- Wednesday, January 21, 2009
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