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Monday Morning JetLawg
Cities lobby for Google’s high-speed Internet access.
Tags: Uncategorized 1st Amendment Amazon Apple blogging censorship Colbert Report copyright infringement Daily Show file sharing google italy mp3 poker robbery Roethlisberger Spotify steelers streaming Viaco In the news . . .
New shape to the Internet on the way?
JetLawBlog
- Monday, March 8, 2010
YouTube:Keep summary judgment papers sealed for months; Viacom: 'the time has come for transparency and public access'
YouTube and Google -- whose self-proclaimed mission is "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful" -- have asked a federal court to keep all summary judgment briefs and supporting documents in the Viacom copyright suit sealed until at least June. Viacom wants the papers unsealed within two weeks of filing. In dueling letters to Judge Louis Stanton, both sides agree that the briefs, the first round of which were filed today -- under seal -- should eventually be unsealed, except for highly sensitive material such as trade secrets.
Copyrights & Campaigns
- Friday, March 5, 2010
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Alert from the National Music Publishers Association regarding sheet music and the Google Books Settlement
The Google Books settlement (which is currently being investigated by the Department of Justice, among other people) clearly includes sheet music. and see Music Publishing and the Google Books Settlement and Why Music Publishers and their Licensees Should Care About the Google Books Settlement The National Music Publishers Association and the Harry Fox Agency sent an alert to their members informing them of what to do that is an excellent summary of the truly bizarre situation that Google has created for songwriters and publishers around the world and is well worth reading.
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What if I told you somebody was scribbling on your Web site?
Well, if you download and install the Google Toolbar, and navigate to your Web site, you can find out if that is happening on your site right now.
Issues on the Near Horizon,” Google recently debuted the “Sidewiki” function on the Google Toolbar. Google touts the Sidewiki functionality as allowing users “to contribute helpful information next to any webpage.” Let's say that anybody could write comments on your Web site that were visible to third parties and that you couldn't prevent it. Those comments might include links to competitive
New Media and Technology Law
- Tuesday, November 10, 2009
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William Morris Endeavor: Opt out of Google Books Settlement
Not surprisingly, the William Morris Endeavor talent agency has advised its clients--twice--to opt out of the Google Books settlement: "There is an important right that is relinquished under the terms of the Settlement that the Authors Guild does not adequately address. In addition to waiving their right to sue Google for infringement, they waive, again for the term of copyright, their right to have Google remove their work from its database if they haven! t done so within twenty-seven months from the Notice Commencement Date."
Music Technology Policy
- Friday, August 21, 2009
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Google Buzz could cause legal problems in Hollywood
By Eriq Gardner Google has been taking a lot of heat since Tuesday's launch of a new social-networking feature called Buzz that allows users to post status updates to contacts and make comments on other people's updates. Most controversially, Google...
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Daily Read: Ads in Recession, Toronto Film Fest, Google
The NYT's David Carr visits the source of the Evil Google Empire .
Tags: Cash Crunch Film Festivals Google Marketing advertising Google recession Toronto International Film Festiva The Toronto International Film Festival is starting to post its line-up. The press release is on the jump.
Thompson On Hollywood
- Tuesday, June 23, 2009
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Why Hollywood should care about the Google book settlement
By Eriq Gardner We wonder if Hollywood lawyers should be paying more attention to the fate of a controversial settlement between Google, book publishers, and authors. Last October, the parties announced they had agreed to settle a major class action...
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Google Book Search and Contractual Voodoo
Let's say that you have a good idea for an internet application, but it would involve infringing millions of copyrights. You'd like to negotiate a deal, but there are hundreds of thousands of people with whom you'd have to negotiate....
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Pixelization
- Sunday, May 31, 2009
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'Skank' blogger to sue Google? Good luck.
Rosemary Port, revealed to be the authoress of the "Skanks in NYC" blog that allegedly defamed model Liskula Cohen, now plans to bring a "$15 million federal lawsuit against" Google for revealing Port's identity, the Daily News reports. So she initiated proceedings in New York state court for pre-action discovery under CPLR ยง 3102(c) , asking a judge to order Google, which hosted the blog through its Blogger service, to produce identifying information ( e.g. , To which I say: good luck. Here's the legal background.
Copyrights & Campaigns
- Monday, August 24, 2009
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Small victory for Google in YouTube class action
By Eriq Gardner News on the YouTube litigation front has been about as slow as watching a streamed video on a dial-up modem, but we've finally got some action in the high-stakes class action lawsuit against the company. U.S. District...
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On the Google Book Search Settlement
Picker, University of Chicago Law School, has published The Google Book Search Settlement: A New Orphan-Works Monopoly? Randal C. as U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 462. Here is the abstract.
Media Law Prof Blog
- Monday, May 4, 2009
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