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YouTube's fate rests on decade-old copyright law

March 13, 2007 Wording of DMCA, which appeared in Congress long before the Web video revolution, could determine whether YouTube disappears. TAGS: Viacom Inc., DMCA, YouTube, copyright infringement, fate, copyright law, hosting company, Napster Inc., Google Inc., attorney, video

Congress readies broad new digital copyright bill

April 23, 2006 Instead of reforming the controversial DMCA, the U.S. government seems poised to expand it in a sweeping proposal. TAGS: DMCA, copy protection, intellectual property, copyright law, legislation, professor, chairman, Republican

American Airlines subpoenas Google, YouTube

March 10, 2006 Airline draws on digital copyright law to force companies to identify person who posted training video on their Web sites. TAGS: subpoena, copyright law, airline, YouTube, DMCA, Google Inc., training, video

YouTube sued over copyright infringement

July 19, 2006 Journalist claims video-download site encourages its users to violate copyright law. TAGS: YouTube, DMCA, copyright law, Los Angeles, video

Please don't steal this Web content

August 2, 2007 Movement is afoot to stifle "scraper sites," which copy content of blogs and repost it on other sites to profit from ad impressions. TAGS: DMCA, blog, copyright law, WordPress, blogging, RSS, Google Inc., search engine, post

Apple, others draw legal threat over media players

May 11, 2007 California company accuses Apple, Microsoft, Real and Adobe of violating copyright law by "actively avoiding" its products. TAGS: DMCA, digital radio, RealNetworks Inc., copyright law, intellectual property, measure, Apple Computer, Adobe Systems Inc., digital audio, California, letter, media player, law, work, Microsoft Corp., e-mail

Why's it so hard to get 'Buffy' on my iPod?

January 13, 2006 reporter's notebook Buying a new iPod is easy. Filling it with video is far more complicated, Declan McCullagh finds. TAGS: copyright law, DMCA, Apple video iPod, copy protection, Apple iPod, Apple PowerBook, San Francisco, Apple iTunes, Apple Computer, TV, DVD, notebook computer, Apple Macintosh, video, Microsoft Windows

YouTube may add to Google's copyright worries

October 10, 2006 Popular video-sharing site already faces legal heat. Will its acquisition make Google a high-profile lawsuit target? TAGS: legal liability, YouTube, Mark Cuban, copyright law, lawsuit, litigation, DMCA, Google Inc., CEO, video

Viacom sued over Colbert parody on YouTube

March 22, 2007 EFF, others claim Viacom is misusing copyright law in forcing video-sharing site to take down parody of Comedy Central show. TAGS: Viacom Inc., takedown, MoveOn.org, YouTube, DMCA, lawsuit, notice, copyright law, record, attorney, video, Google Inc.
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