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anonymous

News: Fighting a Copyright Charge - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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copyright UCLA video-streaming education

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    The University of California at Los Angeles on Wednesday announced that it will continue streaming copyrighted videos in online "virtual classrooms" despite legal objections from an educational media trade group. The university's decision is the latest development in a copyright dispute with the Association for Information and Media Equipment over whether it is legal for the university to convert DVDs from its libraries into a digital format that students can stream from password-protected course Web sites. UCLA considers the practice "essential," since it allows students to watch the videos on their own computers and on their own time, rather than having to gather in a classroom. Many educators at other colleges have watched the case with intent, waiting to see what implications, if any, the spat might have on their own institutions' use of streaming video.
chris_seaman

Shaw Agrees to Buy TV Assets of Canwest - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Canada ownership cable television acquisition

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    Article discussing Shaw Communications acquisition of Canwest Global Media's television assets. Article discusses legal and economic aspects of the acquisition.
Theresa de los Santos

Ruling due on Google's book plan | Technology | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

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Google Copyright Digital Library Court

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  • Theresa de los Santos on 17 Feb 10
     
    A New York judge is due to rule on Feburary 18th whether Google's plans to make millions of in-copyright books available online are legal - potentially bringing an end to the company's controversial quest to create the world's biggest digital library."
Ryan Fuller

Justice Dept. Criticizes Latest Google Book Deal - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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2010 Google books

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    In another blow to Google's plan to create a giant digital library and bookstore, the Justice Department on Thursday said that a class-action settlement between the company and groups representing authors and publishers had significant legal problems, even after recent revisions.
Ryan Fuller

Hollywood writers' age-discrimination case settled - latimes.com - 0 views

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2010 Writers Guild of America age discrimination

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  • Ryan Fuller on 23 Jan 10
     
    A decade-old legal battle comes to an end as 17 major networks and production studios, along with seven talent agencies, agree to pay $70 million to thousands of writers.
Rebekah Pure

"Get YouTube" Bookmarklet Grabs YouTube Videos in One Click - Bookmarklets - Lifehacker - 0 views

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Internet YouTube Copyright

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    Download YouTube videos in one click. Is this legal? What do you think?
ethan tussey

FCC loses ruling on 'net neutrality' - Entertainment News, TV News, Media - Variety - 0 views

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2010 Net-Neutrality FCC

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  • But Comcast had argued that the FCC order was illegal because the agency was seeking to enforce mere policy principles, which don't have the force of regulations or law. That is one reason that Genachowski is now trying to formalize those rules.
  • With so much at stake, the FCC now has several options. It could ask Congress to give it explicit authority to regulate broadband. Or it could appeal Tuesday's decision to the Supreme Court.
  • The more likely scenario, Scott believes, is that the agency will simply reclassify broadband as a more heavily regulated telecommuniciations service. And that, ironically, could be the worst-case outcome from the perspective of the phone and cable companies, he noted.
  • ethan tussey on 06 Apr 10
     
    More specific legal language on the Net-Neutrality court decision.
kkholland

Court Orders Spanish Broadcasting System to Restore Arbitron Encoding - 2010-02-15 22:3... - 0 views

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arbitron media tracking radio hispanic audience underreporting legal dispute Spanish Broadcasting Systems

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    Update on the court case between Arbitron radio ratings and Spanish Broadcasting Systems over SBS's refusal to encode their signals so that Arbitron can measure audience. SBS claims that Arbitron's measurment under counts Hispanic listeners and hurts their advertising rates.
anonymous

Olympics | Why you can't see live streaming of Olympics - at least not legally | Seattl... - 0 views

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NBC Winter Olympics 2010 viewing restrictions

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    NBC owns the U.S. rights to the Vancouver Olympics, and, for this Olympics, it has clamped down on online live streaming of events. Only hockey and curling will be shown live online, with all other events either shown live on television or held for tape-delay airing on prime time or late night television, says the industry publication Broadcasting & Cable in a story Monday. The Web site for CTV, the Canadian network with rights to the Olympics in that country, is live-streaming events, but NBC has made sure that computers with U.S. IP addresses can't log onto the CTV site.
kkholland

Could Court's Campaign Finance Ruling Affect Net Neutrality? - PCWorld - 0 views

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Net Neutrality citizens united free speech Internet Service Provider ISP

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  • Under the FCC's proposed net neutrality rules, broadband providers would be prohibited from discriminating against any legal Web content and applications. Some net neutrality opponents have argued that the FCC, by forcing them to carry other content, would violate their free-speech rights, and the Citizens United ruling makes that a stronger argument.
  • An FCC spokeswoman declined to comment on the Citizens United case, but Wendy is not alone in making this free-speech argument against net neutrality. Even before the Citizens United ruling, some conservative think tanks, the National Cable and Telecommunications Association and constitutional law professor Laurence Tribe have made similar
  • Free Press' Wright said those arguments confuse the role that ISPs have as Web site publishers with their role as network operators. She acknowledged that broadband providers have limited functions, such as publishing their own Web sites or blogs, that enjoy free-speech rights.
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  • But the net neutrality rules as proposed would create no limits on the ability of ISPs to publish their own Web sites, she said. The arguments that the ISPs' traffic-carrying role is speech is "so fundamentally at odds with the facts in the law," Wright said.
  • kkholland on 01 Feb 10
     
    Will the Citizens United ruling impact net neutrality? This article explores the arguments on both sides, as well as the role of an ISP.
kkholland

Knight Foundation donates $2 million to freedom of information groups | The Daily Tell - 0 views

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knight foundation media investigative journalism freedom of information requests

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  • An ailing media industry may be to blame for the decline in information requests. Fifty-three percent of respondents in the same Media Law Research Center survey said their resources have declined in recent years, while 35 percent said they have eroded significantly. "Media companies have for generations taken on the lion’s share of the legal work surrounding freedom of information. But as media economics restructure, new approaches are needed," said Knight Foundation vice president for journalism programs Eric Newton.
  • kkholland on 01 Feb 10
     
    The Knight Foundations responds to shifting media industry economics by donating $2 million dollars to fund freedom on information act requests. While these requests are traditionally paid for by newspapers and news organizations, economic challenges facing the industry are undercutting traditional funding models.
kkholland

RIAA Tells FCC: ISPs Need to Be Copyright Cops - PC World - 0 views

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Net Neutrality copyright copyright enforcement RIAA FCC

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  • The U.S. Federal Communications Commission should avoid adopting strict net neutrality rules that would limit broadband providers' flexibly to "address" illegal online file sharing, the Recording Industry Association of America said in comments filed with the FCC on Thursday.
  • The FCC should not only avoid rules prohibiting ISPs from blocking illegal file trading, but it should actively encourage ISPs to do so, the RIAA said.
  • Other groups called on the FCC to stay out of the copyright enforcement business. If ISPs are required to check for copyright infringement, they could interfere with legal online activities, said six digital rights and business groups, including Public Knowledge, the Consumer Electronics Association and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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  • ISPs are "poorly placed to determine whether or not transfers of content are infringing or otherwise unlawful, a task generally reserved to attorneys, courts, and law enforcement," the groups said in a filing with the FCC. "In short, the issue raised by broadening the 'reasonable network management' exception to include copyright enforcement and the blocking of unlawful content is not whether ISPs may undertake these efforts, but rather whether they may inflict collateral damage on lawful traffic when they do so."
  • kkholland on 17 Jan 10
     
    The RIAA argues ISP's should perform copyright enforcement, and claim Net Neutrality blocks such efforts.
kkholland

Digital Marketing: Why Google Wasn't Winning in China Anyway - Advertising Age - Digital - 0 views

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google china media industry economics

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  • But it could be a face-saving way to exit a market where Google has made surprisingly little progress. Most research companies agree Google controls at most one-quarter of China's search market. That's hard to swallow, given Google's dominant position in the U.S. and many other major markets.
  • Google has never been a big believer in traditional marketing anywhere, including China, while Baidu is an active advertiser in TV, out-of-home and digital media.
  • "Their chief problem was the idea they could come into the market without doing marketing and expect to replicate the miraculous success they had enjoyed in the U.S. They did no marketing," said Kaiser Kuo, a Beijing-based consultant for Youku.com and the former of head of digital strategy at Ogilvy & Mather in China.
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  • "Google has vision but its execution in China wasn't strong. They don't get the nitty-gritty nuances and are not close enough to the market," said Quinn Taw, a Beijing-based venture partner at Mustang Ventures who has held senior positions at Mindshare and Zenith Media in China.
  • Until recently, for instance, Google.cn had the same clean, sleek look of Google.com, even though Chinese web surfers, particularly in the early days, preferred clicking on popular search topics rather than typing in search characters. Baidu's site reflected that preference from the start.
  • "With its massively popular Tieba forums, a question-and-answer service and a wiki, Baidu leveraged Chinese netizens' natural propensity to share and create content and seamlessly integrated it in to the overall search experience way before Google's attempts," said Sam Flemming, founder and chairman of CIC, an internet research and consulting firm in Shanghai.
  • tionalism and corruption. When Baidu issued its IPO in late 2005, about one-third of Baidu's users were music fans using the site's online music file-sharing service, which operated much like Napster. Baidu didn't earn revenue from the music downloads, but music attracted tens of millions of Chinese to its site and helped make it the No. 1 search engine player. As an American company bound by U.S. laws protecting intellectual property, this growth tactic was not open to Google. Music companies, of course, hate Baidu's music-sharing site. The major labels such as EMI, Warner Music Group and Vivendi's Universal Music have tried suing local sites that allowed illegal downloading, including Baidu, with minimal success in court and little support from Chinese consumers.
  • Unlike Baidu, Google made another mistake in refusing to offer rebates for volume media buys, a common, if not always legal, practice in China's media industry. (
  • Media buyers "couldn't give Google money if they wanted to," Mr. Taw said. "Their sales guys were very arrogant, superior and hard to get hold of. They went out of their way to be jerks."
  • kkholland on 17 Jan 10
     
    Explores the economic angle of google's potential withdraw from China, and offers a competing argument that the firm's threats to leave may in fact be a face saving measure driven by the bottom line.
kkholland

Chinese Media, Bloggers Ask: Is Google Really Saying Goodbye? - NAM - 0 views

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google china censorship leaving bloggers cyberattack

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  • Google said on Tuesday that it was considering shutting down Google.cn and closing its offices in China after a cyber attack on its corporate infrastructure resulted in intellectual property loss. Google also said it would stop censoring search results on Google.cn. For the first time, reports and images of the Tiananmen Square massacre and other events could be seen through Google searches in China.
  • Chinese American media rushing to provide their analysis in the context of U.S.-China relations. “Google, Don’t become a tool in the political fight between the U.S. and China” read the headline of an editorial published Friday in China Press. “Though Obama tried to adapt to China’s increasingly powerful role in the world with a new attitude and said the United States would not repress China’s development, the differences in ideology between the countries continue to prohibit the U.S.-China relationship from moving forward,” the editorial argued.
  • “If the Chinese government just let it go, Google could stop its financial losses in China, which would be beneficial to its share price. If the Chinese government is willing to compromise, Google will become the ‘hero’ that breaks China’s strict control over Internet information.” Chinese investors, Leung noted, believe the absence of Google will actually benefit the local Internet market; the stock prices of Chinese Internet companies rose right after the announcement was made.
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  • Editors of the World Journal said they were happy to see Google defend the freedom of online information without censorship, describing it as “an act of courage.” A popular column in World Journal contends that it is time for the Chinese government to change in order to develop into a truly strong country. “A real strong country is not just strong economically,” the column argues. “It also needs development in people’s values, in order to build a healthy and principled system, and abolish the current zero-tolerance policy on dissident expression.”
  • An editorial written by Feng Lei of Guangzhou’s Southern Metropolis Daily doubts if Beijing is willing to let go of Google. “A company like Google not only serves as a technology leader in China’s domestic market, but also, by virtue of its presence, has a ‘catfish effect’ [raising overall performance in the industry]. Without this presence and effect, there will be a definite impact on the development of the industry domestically.”
  • A news analysis in China Times describes the announcement as a tactic for Google to gain more freedom in China.
  • The most popular blogger in China, Han Han, also expressed his support for Google. He wrote on his blog, “I understand Google’s decision, whether it is for real or not. What I don’t understand is that some Web sites conducted surveys saying that 70 percent of Internet users do not support Google’s request that the Chinese government stop its censorship. While looking at these survey results on the government Web site, you often find yourself on the opposite side,” adding that these Web sites should be the ones to be censored.
  • A blog on Baidu.com, Google’s biggest competitor in China, said, “The tone of the top Google legal advisor disgusts me. He could have said that they are withdrawing for economic reasons, plain and simple. Instead, they have to make themselves look good by saying that Google was attacked by Chinese people, that Gmail accounts of Chinese dissidents were attacked, and so on in order to explain why they are withdrawing from China. This type of tone is an insult to the intelligence of ordinary Chinese citizens.”
  • The reason Google is having a hard time in China, she argued, is that there is a mismatch between American ideology and Chinese management style. “In the Chinese market, Google has no intention of adjusting itself to adapt to the Chinese situation, but works according to its own ideology,” she writes. “That’s why, under media exposure during the anti-pornography campaign, Google could barely handle the situation and had to change its leadership in China.”
  • kkholland on 17 Jan 10
     
    Discussion of whether Google will leave China with comments from Chinese bloggers and media analysts.
anonymous

Chinese writer files copyright lawsuit over 'Avatar' - 0 views

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avatar james cameron copyright infringement

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    Science fiction writer Zhou Shaomou has filed a lawsuit with the People's Court of Beijing for copyright infringement. Zhou claims in his suit that 80% of "Avatar"'s key elements and plot are the same as his novel, "Tale of the Blue Crows," which was written in 1997.
ethan tussey

Blockbuster Gets More Help From Hollywood - 1 views

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2010 Blockbuster Redbox Home Video

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  • However, unlike Warner Bros., which announced its deal with Blockbuster two weeks ago, 20th Century Fox hasn’t inked agreements with Netflix or Redbox that would delay their own new release windows. In fact, Redbox is still in the midst of a legal battle with Fox, after the studio sought to keep retailers from selling DVDs that the company could put into its kiosks.
  • Sony Pictures Entertainment and 20th Century Fox are at the heart of today’s news, which, combined with an earlier deal struck with Warner Bros., will extend Blockbuster’s ability to rent movies on the same day and date that they go on sale at other retailers.
  • ethan tussey on 07 Apr 10
     
    More studios work to keep Blockbuster alive. Is this about quarterly earnings? Is this a messgae to Redbox?
kkholland

Court: FCC Had No Authority to Stop Comcast's BitTorrent Restrictions - PCWorld - 1 views

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FCC Internet Bit Torrent legal ruling

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    Court overturns FCC ruling banning Comcast from restricting Bit Torrent
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