Digital Rights Management (drm)
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Does Pirate Bay verdict spell trouble for Google?
Insight perspective Pirate Bay outcome could have wide and lasting implications for the likes of Google and YouTube, says legal expert.
Tags: Piracy, Copyright, Digital rights management (DRM), Web sites, Google Inc., Napster Inc., Video, Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios, YouTube Inc., File-sharing
P2P music sharing needs regulation to work
News Government legislation and a reliable royalty system must be implemented for peer-to-peer music file sharing networks to work in Asia, say industry watchers.
Tags: Peer to peer, Digital rights management (DRM), Music, Regulation, BayTSP, P2P, Japan, research director, digital-rights management, network
EA to offer 'Spore' DRM-free
News It will be one of several titles distributed via Valve's Steam platform. The move is likely to win EA points with gamers.
Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Games, Video Game, Gamer, Electronics, FIFA, Electronic Arts Inc., digital-rights management, News.com, blog
Europe urged to hasten book digitization
News Europe could pull ahead of Google in the digitization of books as long as it acts swiftly, information society and media commissioner Viviane Reding has said.
Tags: Web 2.0, Data Management, Digital rights management (DRM), Commission, Google Inc., Books Digitization, European Commission, Web 2.0, Copyright Protection, Europe
Pirate Bay founder accused of running Reservella
News BREIN, a Dutch trade group representing copyright owners, claims to have uncovered documents revealing that Fredrik Neij is CEO of Thepiratebay.org's listed owner.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Digital rights management (DRM), Web sites, Web 2.0, Reservella, BREIN, BitTorrent, file-swapping, Europe
November deadline for new Google Books deal
News Google and books groups hashing out the terms of a revised settlement will have until November 9 to submit a new deal to the judge overseeing the case.
Tags: Web 2.0, Data Management, Digital rights management (DRM), Google Inc., revenue, Web 2.0, U.S. Department Of Justice, Settlement, Associated Press, New York
Did Viacom find smoking gun in YouTube case?
News YouTube's internal e-mail indicate employees and managers knew about copyright content, sources say, but chose to leave the material on the site. What are the DMCA ramifications?
Tags: Web 2.0, Digital rights management (DRM), Google Inc., Viacom Inc., Web 2.0, Matz, TV, Entertainment Company, Entertainment Industry, Video
Hollywood hunts The Pirate Bay; site down again
News Sources say lawyers in Sweden working for copyright owners are tracking down whoever provides bandwidth to The Pirate Bay and then forcing them to cut off service.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Digital rights management (DRM), Site, Blackout, Web 2.0, Web sites, BitTorrent, attorney, Ukraine
Google: Pirate Bay booted off search by mistake
News Site is unavailable on Google's search pages for a while last week, but Google says it was just a mistake. The controversial BitTorrent search engine is being indexed again.
Tags: Web 2.0, Digital rights management (DRM), Google Inc., search engine, TV, attorney, Internet Service, Internet Service Provider, Google Search, Internet
Pirate Bay suffers outage, site back up
News The controversial BitTorrent search engine goes down for at least three hours the day after the site's ISP reportedly cut off service.
Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Web 2.0, search engine, Site, CBS Interactive Inc., Entertainment Company, BitTorrent, entertainment, Internet Service, Pirate Bay
YouTube, Warner Music feud nearing an end
News Two companies have reached terms on most of the major issues and it appears Warner Music's videos will return to YouTube within weeks.
Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Music, Video, Universal Music Group, EMI Group Plc., Sony Pictures, Warner Music Group Corp., Sony BMG Music Entertainment, YouTube Inc., content company
Music publishers: iTunes not paying fair share
News Music publishers and songwriters want Apple and other Web retailers to pay performance fees for music samples and video downloads. What's right here?
Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Music, Apple Inc., TV, Apple iTunes, movie, performance, payment, music publisher, Income
Stunned film, music sectors react to Veoh decision
News There's no disputing that a federal court's decision to offer safe-harbor protection for sites such as Veoh is a blow to the entertainment industry. But will it bring change?
Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Music, Video, Web 2.0, Web sites, Viacom Inc., Universal Music Group, attorney, entertainment, YouTube Inc.
Veoh wins copyright case; YouTube wins, too?
News Accused by the largest music label of violating its copyright, Veoh wins court decision that says such sites are protected under Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Digital rights management (DRM), Viacom Inc., Universal Music Group, Safe Harbor, Video, copyright violation, YouTube Inc., Web Site
Google says Viacom's suit 'threatens' Net
News Legal response says Viacom's rewritten suit could affect the "way hundreds of millions of people legitimately exchange information" over the Web.
Tags: Lawsuits, Web services, Music, Digital rights management (DRM), Video, Copyright, Viacom Inc., Google Inc., Associated Press, YouTube Inc.
