Comments on: A quick note on DMCA Safe Harbors, Youtube and VIacom

By: tony

tony — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 08:53:58 +0000

I don\’t know why Viacom is just suing Youtube. Why not go after the ISPs, the consumer product manufacturers and computer makers,
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agree,funny stuff!lol

By: rob

rob — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 13:37:37 +0000

Hendrickson v. eBay anyone?

By: evden eve nakliyat

evden eve nakliyat — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 15:20:49 +0000

Yup, Ive seen those heat maps and theyre fun to look at. Ive wondered how the data gets stored though; theres a trade-off of granularity of the data vs. storage space..

By: Lascap

Lascap — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 07:10:29 +0000

This should be interesting. These University of Chicago guys are not fucking around:

http://www-news.uchicago.edu/citations/07/070321.lichtman-latimes.html

By: Ericc

Ericc — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 02:03:00 +0000

I found this story linked on Fark. It details how the NFL is potentially violating the DMCA through massive takedown notices, and I was wondering about Mark\'s views on this since he is both a content provider through HDNet and an owner of a professional sports team.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070320-nfl-fumbles-dmca-takedown-battle-could-face-sanctions.html

Ericc

By: Keith

Keith — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 21:36:32 +0000

Here is a nice little legal showdown between a content owner (NFL), a content poster (Wendy Seltzer), and the content distributor (YouTube).

http://wendy.seltzer.org/blog/archives/DMCA.html

By: lenny

lenny — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:55:57 +0000

Google will win & viacom will leave with its tail between its legs.

By: arlen

arlen — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 19:52:32 +0000

Please find the link below to an excellent illustration of many of the concepts Mr. Cuban is discussing. Interestingly, it seems like the courts may come down on the side of the user and not the copyright owner.

This legal battle could be a precursor to the future of DMCA Safe Harbors for internet video.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070320-nfl-fumbles-dmca-takedown-battle-could-face-sanctions.html

http://wendy.seltzer.org/blog/archives/DMCA.html

By: Google and Youtube Caught Editing Videos

Google and Youtube Caught Editing Videos — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 21:06:56 +0000

Mark,

Just wanted to bring this to your attention.

I uploaded a copyrighted clip of a CBS (Viacom) news story about the recent high school brawl that happened at MSG over the weekend.

At the end of the video I added a title that said \"See more videos at BryanHauer.com.\" I then uploaded it to YouTube as a test to see if they would even publish it since it was from Viacom and in about 15-30 minutes it was live, but surprisingly without the final 6 seconds that had a thing about visiting my site.

The video itself is still the full 1:19, but as you will see the last 6 seconds was edited out and the video simply stops playing.

Wouldn\'t this completely go against Google Videos and YouTube\'s stance that they are protected under Safe Harbors?

I\'ve written a post about it at http://www.bryanhauer.com/2007/03/19/google-video-and-youtube-caught-editing-video/

Let me know what you think or where I might be missing something even though I don\'t think I am.

Bryan

By: William T. Radcliffe

William T. Radcliffe — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:54:30 +0000

There is an interesting change going on this year with both MySpace and YouTube promising technology solutions to the problem. Most DMCA defense so far have based part of their defense on an inability to police the huge amount of content flowing through their systems. That\'s it why most policing to date has been the responsibility of the content owner and requires a takedown request. The service provider is suppose to be blind to the infringement activity. What happens now that this defense is removed? I guess that\'s why these are \"pilot programs\".

If this whole issue were being handled in a sane way, the government would already have stepped in to overhaul the copyright office and have them independently implemented a system that allows content owners to register their content using the same technologies that MySpace and YouTube will be using. The difference would be that a standard could be established and allowances made for the period where all the scalability and other technical flaws could be worked out.

One example of a solution is Numly: http://www.numly.com

\"Digital works can be uploaded to Numly along with meta data about the author and copyright in return for a Numly Number. A digital fingerprint of the digital asset is created and stored in the Numly databases. If you find an image online (or any other digital document), you can determine if it has been registered at Numly and who the author/artist is via the Numly Document Validator in the Numly portal. By simply uploading the digital asset in question, Numly will return the associated Numly Number of the work along with all of the copyright meta data and a contact link. The contact link uses Numly\'s Secure Message Center to forward your message to the copyright holder (even if their email address has changed). This new feature should make finding the copyright holders of orphaned works possible!\"