Congress provided immunity under Section 230 to online service providers for all claims stemming from third party content appearing on or through the service provider’s platform (“No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.”). The controversial consumer gripe site, RipoffReport.com, is at it again. MORE
If you’re a gay gamer (a gaymer ), you might have wished from time to time to find a game or two with some gay/lesbian content. Lucky for you, someone has prepared a list of such games. That someone is a conservative, and evidently homophobic, investment advisory firm, but no matter—we appreciate the list. MORE
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I want to call your attention to a letter by members of the Content Creators Coalition regarding the Copyright Office. Lofgren’s rambling can best be addressed by this letter to the Congressional Black Caucus from artist members of the Content Creators Coalition. (I MORE
YouTube has struck back with the usual squid ink trying to obfuscate Google’s absurdly ineffective Content ID and Content Management System (“CMS”), most recently to the New York Times. You know, the way you have to be approved and have a license to use Content ID. MORE
You can view earlier installments here: Treehouse Informal learning (technical) Corporate MOOCs MOOCs Content libraries. The content is definitely designed for beginners, and it is great at what it does. MORE
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Meanwhile, the telecom industry is invoking the "Open Internet" rules to argue that TV programmers shouldn't be allowed to restrict access to streams. read more. THR, Esq. The Business Movies Television Business THR Online MORE
Ned Snow, University of South Carolina, is publishing Content-Based Copyright Denial in volume 90 of the Indiana Law Journal (2015). Here is the abstract. No principle of First Amendment law is more firmly established than the principle that government may MORE
Washington, D.C.] – The Content Creators Coalition and MusicAnswers released today the following statement on the Senate Judiciary Committee’s vote in support of the Music Modernization Act. via Content Creators Coalition & MusicAnswers Applaud the Revision and Passage of the Music Modernization Act by the Senate Judiciary Committee — Artist Rights Watch. irespectmusic campaign Music Modernization Act Uncategorized Content Creators Coalition MusicAnswersPRESS RELEASE. MORE
MP3Tunes and its founder Michael Robertson can't escape a determination of owing tens of millions of dollars to record labels and music publishers. read more. THR, Esq. The Business Movies Music Tech Business THR Online MORE
Thomas of Fasken Martineau discusses provider liability in the case of Canadian users who "jump the geofence" in order to watch streamed US content. Ariel A. Read more here MORE
It should come as no shock that Google chose Kafka (a long-time Google fan boy) as the safe interviewer for Lyor, but it really is stunning how oblivious Lyor is to how to scam Content ID which has leaked like the proverbial sieve since its inception. MORE
Copyright holders get the victory against a Dutch seller. read more. THR, Esq. Business Television Tech Business THR Online MORE
The online provider loses its argument about the preemptive reach of an FCC rule. read more. THR, Esq. Business Television Tech Business THR Online MORE
There will be no rehearing, but concurrences and dissents touch upon the future of net neutrality anyway. read more. THR, Esq. Business Television Tech Business THR Online MORE
Consumers have access to an ever increasing inventory of video content Rob Frieden, Pennsylvania State University College of Communications and Dickinson School of Law has published Next Generation Television and the Migration from Channels to Platforms. Here is the abstract. MORE
Recall that the Content Creators Coalition produced a couple videos that parodied the main two issues that the creative community has with YouTube: YouTube’s absurdly low royalties and YouTube’s absurd abuse of the DMCA safe harbor. MORE
In a blog post last month, Google announced that it would extend certain commitments it made to the FTC in 2012 that were set to expire relating to, among other things, the scraping of third-party content for use on certain Google “vertical search” properties such as Google Shopping. As part of the extended commitment, Google reserved the right to display content that was sourced independently or to otherwise crawl and index web content to innovate in search. MORE
Megan Gray, Stanford Center for Internet & Society; Gray Matters, has published Copyright Infringement and the First Amendment: User-Generated Content and DMCA Interpretation -- Youtube. MORE
Content and technology are locked in a struggle whose outcome may determine the future of the entertainment industry. The problem is this: Content is becoming a commodity. Instead, new distribution technologies have arisen, and the ascendancy of those technologies has come at the expense of content. Tags: technology Hollywood Silicon Valley content MORE
Katri Havu, University of Helsinki, is publishing Unfair Commercial Contracts and Online Content Distribution: Insights into Problems, Regulation and Potential of European Harmonization in Tidskrift utgiven av Juridiska Föreningen i Finland, 6/2014 (forthcoming). Commercial online content MORE
Content ID, YouTube’s digital fingerprinting technology, is under fire lately for very good reason. Originally touted by YouTube as an effective method of blocking illegal uploads, Content ID was ostensibly the service’s way to protect copyright holders. By Maria Schneider. MORE
The creator of the zombie series is asserting trademark rights to stop a restaurateur. read more. THR, Esq. The Business Television Business THR Online MORE
The safe-harbour provisions shield service providers from liability for infringements perpetrated by their users, provided they expeditiously take down infringing content of which they have been notified – that is how it works in practice, at least. One thing I believe everyone can agree on is that the safe-harbour (aka “notice-and-takedown”) provisions of the DMCA aren’t working as they should. MORE
TRANSCRIPT: What can you do when someone uses your content without permission? If someone is using your content without your permission, here are the steps. AUDIO: [link]. MORE
Haupt, Columbia University Law School and Yale University Information Society Project, is publishing Professional Speech and the Content-Neutrality Trap in volume 127 of the Yale Law Forum (2017). Claudia E. MORE
Ginsburg and Luke Budiardjo, both of Columbia Law School, have published Liability for Providing Hyperlinks to Copyright-Infringing Content: International and Comparative Law Perspectives as Columbia Public Law Research Paper 14-563. Jane C. MORE
It’s a problem that has vexed website owners since the days of the dot-com boom – how to make certain user-generated content available to users or subscribers, but also prevent competitors and other unauthorized parties from scraping, linking to or otherwise accessing that content for their own commercial purposes. The use of a clickwrap agreement to convey a non-exclusive license to such content is a standard practice. MORE
Facebook recently announced that it would make changes to its news feed to prioritize content that users share and discuss and material from “reputable publishers.” These changes are part of what Mark Zuckerberg says is a refocusing of Facebook from “ helping [users] find relevant content to helping [users] have more meaningful social interactions.” Online Content Social Media CDA Section 230 Facebook news feed social media MORE
Follow this link to a piece on Mashable about recent changes to Facebook ’s terms of service… It seems the social networking site now claims a perpetual license to any content (photos, videos, etc.) you choose to post on your facebook page. Even if you later cancel your Facebook account. Hat tip to Erin Jacobson for bringing this to my attention. MORE
Graber, University of Zurich, Faculty of Law, has published The Future of Online Content Personalisation: Technology, Law and Digital Freedoms as i-call Working Paper Series (University of Zurich). Christoph B. MORE
George Wright, Indiana University School of Law (Indianapolis), has published Content-Neutral and Content-Based Regulations of Speech: A Distinction that is No Longer Worth the Fuss. The popular binary distinction between content-based and content-neutral regulations of Here is the abstract. MORE
The materials at the center of the fight are worth at least $2 million. read more. THR, Esq. Television Television THR Online MORE
Because Pathgather aggregates formal learning content within organizations and informal learning from across the web into one place, we’re uniquely positioned to identify interesting corporate learning trends. Third-Party Content: Lynda.com, Coursera, Pluralsight, Khan, Udacity, etc. MORE
Trial briefs are filed over the AT&T/Time Warner merger. The government says that market conditions are "conducive to coordination." read more. THR, Esq. Business Movies Television Tech Business THR Online MORE
In refusing to allow plaintiff’s “creative pleading” to avoid the CDA, the outcome was a win for online companies and platforms that host user-generated content (“ A Case for the Internet ,” declared Yelp). The duty that plaintiffs would impose on Yelp, in all material respects, wholly owes to and coincides with the company’s continuing role as a publisher of third party online content.”. MORE
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission says it is changing its approach toward broadcast content, and will no longer require specialty channels to include a specific amount of Canadian content. In addition, daytime Canadian tv will no longer include a MORE
Marc Cuban's Content Partners is suing Paramount Pictures for millions over what it alleges is breach of contract and fraud stemming from unpaid profits on various films such as "The Truman Show" and "A Civil Action," according to The Hollywood MORE
Here’s a blast from the not so distant past on Content ID groundhog day… MUSIC • TECHNOLOGY • POLICY. YouTube has struck back with the usual squid ink trying to obfuscate Google’s absurdly ineffective Content ID and Content Management System (“CMS”), most recently to the New York Times. MORE
The prevalence of social production and the increase in User Generated Content Niva Elkin-Koren, University of Haifa Faculty of Law, is publishing Tailoring Copyright to Social Production, in volume 12 of Theoretical Inquiries in Law (2011). Here is the abstract. MORE
There have been a number of cases in which federal courts have been addressing the issue of peer to peer downloads of adult content. Most of the cases allege copyright infringement on a joint basis, i.e., that all the defendants who downloaded the content should be considered joint defendants. MORE
Kyle Langvardt, University of Detroit Mercy School of Law, is publishing Regulating Online Content Moderation in volume 106 of the Georgetown Law Journal (2018). MORE
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Because Pathgather aggregates formal learning content within organizations and informal learning from across the web into one place, we’re uniquely positioned to identify interesting corporate learning trends. Third-Party Content: Lynda.com, Coursera, Pluralsight, Khan, Udacity, etc.
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Recall that the Content Creators Coalition produced a couple videos that parodied the main two issues that the creative community has with YouTube: YouTube’s absurdly low royalties and YouTube’s absurd abuse of the DMCA safe harbor.
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TRANSCRIPT: What can you do when someone uses your content without permission? If someone is using your content without your permission, here are the steps. AUDIO: [link].
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Kyle Langvardt, University of Detroit Mercy School of Law, is publishing Regulating Online Content Moderation in volume 106 of the Georgetown Law Journal (2018).
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In a blog post last month, Google announced that it would extend certain commitments it made to the FTC in 2012 that were set to expire relating to, among other things, the scraping of third-party content for use on certain Google “vertical search” properties such as Google Shopping. As part of the extended commitment, Google reserved the right to display content that was sourced independently or to otherwise crawl and index web content to innovate in search.
Music Technology Policy
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YouTube has struck back with the usual squid ink trying to obfuscate Google’s absurdly ineffective Content ID and Content Management System (“CMS”), most recently to the New York Times. You know, the way you have to be approved and have a license to use Content ID.
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The suit claims the service is harming competitors, customers and copyright owners. read more. THR, Esq. Tech Tech THR Online
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Megan Gray, Stanford Center for Internet & Society; Gray Matters, has published Copyright Infringement and the First Amendment: User-Generated Content and DMCA Interpretation -- Youtube.
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Ned Snow, University of South Carolina, is publishing Content-Based Copyright Denial in volume 90 of the Indiana Law Journal (2015). Here is the abstract. No principle of First Amendment law is more firmly established than the principle that government may
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The online provider loses its argument about the preemptive reach of an FCC rule. read more. THR, Esq. Business Television Tech Business THR Online
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Content ID, YouTube’s digital fingerprinting technology, is under fire lately for very good reason. Originally touted by YouTube as an effective method of blocking illegal uploads, Content ID was ostensibly the service’s way to protect copyright holders. By Maria Schneider.
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If you’re a gay gamer (a gaymer ), you might have wished from time to time to find a game or two with some gay/lesbian content. Lucky for you, someone has prepared a list of such games. That someone is a conservative, and evidently homophobic, investment advisory firm, but no matter—we appreciate the list.
Media Law Prof Blog
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Graber, University of Zurich, Faculty of Law, has published The Future of Online Content Personalisation: Technology, Law and Digital Freedoms as i-call Working Paper Series (University of Zurich). Christoph B.
Music Technology Policy
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Washington, D.C.] – The Content Creators Coalition and MusicAnswers released today the following statement on the Senate Judiciary Committee’s vote in support of the Music Modernization Act. via Content Creators Coalition & MusicAnswers Applaud the Revision and Passage of the Music Modernization Act by the Senate Judiciary Committee — Artist Rights Watch. irespectmusic campaign Music Modernization Act Uncategorized Content Creators Coalition MusicAnswersPRESS RELEASE.
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Haupt, Columbia University Law School and Yale University Information Society Project, is publishing Professional Speech and the Content-Neutrality Trap in volume 127 of the Yale Law Forum (2017). Claudia E.
New Media and Technology Law
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Congress provided immunity under Section 230 to online service providers for all claims stemming from third party content appearing on or through the service provider’s platform (“No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.”). The controversial consumer gripe site, RipoffReport.com, is at it again.
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There have been a number of cases in which federal courts have been addressing the issue of peer to peer downloads of adult content. Most of the cases allege copyright infringement on a joint basis, i.e., that all the defendants who downloaded the content should be considered joint defendants.
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Content and technology are locked in a struggle whose outcome may determine the future of the entertainment industry. The problem is this: Content is becoming a commodity. Instead, new distribution technologies have arisen, and the ascendancy of those technologies has come at the expense of content. Tags: technology Hollywood Silicon Valley content
Music Technology Policy
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It should come as no shock that Google chose Kafka (a long-time Google fan boy) as the safe interviewer for Lyor, but it really is stunning how oblivious Lyor is to how to scam Content ID which has leaked like the proverbial sieve since its inception.
THR, Esq. Entertainment & Media Law Blog
MARCH 9, 2018
Trial briefs are filed over the AT&T/Time Warner merger. The government says that market conditions are "conducive to coordination." read more. THR, Esq. Business Movies Television Tech Business THR Online
Music Technology Policy
MAY 15, 2017
Here’s a blast from the not so distant past on Content ID groundhog day… MUSIC • TECHNOLOGY • POLICY. YouTube has struck back with the usual squid ink trying to obfuscate Google’s absurdly ineffective Content ID and Content Management System (“CMS”), most recently to the New York Times.
Media Law Prof Blog
NOVEMBER 25, 2014
Katri Havu, University of Helsinki, is publishing Unfair Commercial Contracts and Online Content Distribution: Insights into Problems, Regulation and Potential of European Harmonization in Tidskrift utgiven av Juridiska Föreningen i Finland, 6/2014 (forthcoming). Commercial online content
Music Technology Policy
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The safe-harbour provisions shield service providers from liability for infringements perpetrated by their users, provided they expeditiously take down infringing content of which they have been notified – that is how it works in practice, at least. One thing I believe everyone can agree on is that the safe-harbour (aka “notice-and-takedown”) provisions of the DMCA aren’t working as they should.
Media Law Prof Blog
MARCH 5, 2015
George Wright, Indiana University School of Law (Indianapolis), has published Content-Neutral and Content-Based Regulations of Speech: A Distinction that is No Longer Worth the Fuss. The popular binary distinction between content-based and content-neutral regulations of Here is the abstract.
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The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission says it is changing its approach toward broadcast content, and will no longer require specialty channels to include a specific amount of Canadian content. In addition, daytime Canadian tv will no longer include a
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Copyright holders get the victory against a Dutch seller. read more. THR, Esq. Business Television Tech Business THR Online
Media Law Prof Blog
MARCH 19, 2015
Thomas of Fasken Martineau discusses provider liability in the case of Canadian users who "jump the geofence" in order to watch streamed US content. Ariel A. Read more here
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MP3Tunes and its founder Michael Robertson can't escape a determination of owing tens of millions of dollars to record labels and music publishers. read more. THR, Esq. The Business Movies Music Tech Business THR Online
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Consumers have access to an ever increasing inventory of video content Rob Frieden, Pennsylvania State University College of Communications and Dickinson School of Law has published Next Generation Television and the Migration from Channels to Platforms. Here is the abstract.
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Ginsburg and Luke Budiardjo, both of Columbia Law School, have published Liability for Providing Hyperlinks to Copyright-Infringing Content: International and Comparative Law Perspectives as Columbia Public Law Research Paper 14-563. Jane C.
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The prevalence of social production and the increase in User Generated Content Niva Elkin-Koren, University of Haifa Faculty of Law, is publishing Tailoring Copyright to Social Production, in volume 12 of Theoretical Inquiries in Law (2011). Here is the abstract.
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The materials at the center of the fight are worth at least $2 million. read more. THR, Esq. Television Television THR Online
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It’s a problem that has vexed website owners since the days of the dot-com boom – how to make certain user-generated content available to users or subscribers, but also prevent competitors and other unauthorized parties from scraping, linking to or otherwise accessing that content for their own commercial purposes. The use of a clickwrap agreement to convey a non-exclusive license to such content is a standard practice.
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Meanwhile, the telecom industry is invoking the "Open Internet" rules to argue that TV programmers shouldn't be allowed to restrict access to streams. read more. THR, Esq. The Business Movies Television Business THR Online
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The creator of the zombie series is asserting trademark rights to stop a restaurateur. read more. THR, Esq. The Business Television Business THR Online
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I want to call your attention to a letter by members of the Content Creators Coalition regarding the Copyright Office. Lofgren’s rambling can best be addressed by this letter to the Congressional Black Caucus from artist members of the Content Creators Coalition. (I
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Follow this link to a piece on Mashable about recent changes to Facebook ’s terms of service… It seems the social networking site now claims a perpetual license to any content (photos, videos, etc.) you choose to post on your facebook page. Even if you later cancel your Facebook account. Hat tip to Erin Jacobson for bringing this to my attention.
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