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The Associated Press is set to create a news registry to protect their online content from copyright violations. The organization amassed critics on the issue after a number of DMCA

YouTube and Warner Brothers have broken a little girl's heart by deleting a video of her singing the copyrighted song "Winter Wonderland," and the Electronic Frontier Foundation isn't going to

Earlier this morning Google Books announced a program where rights owners would be given the tweetmeme_url = 'http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_books_offers_creative_commons_licensing.php'; tweetmeme_source = 'rww'; option to modify their copyright licenses and specify them

Social networks are making it increasingly easy to organize and propagate protests. One that caught our eye today is the New Zealand Internet Blackout, which is using a variety of

digg_url = 'http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/on_copyright_youtube_punts.php'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; After more than a year of back and forth, YouTube has rolled out an official video filtering tool to protect

Today, Donald B. Verrilli was appointed to the position of associate deputy attorney general by President Obama. While he is definitely not a household name, Verrilli was the lawyer who

In the ongoing copyright litigation between Google and Viacom, a judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York has ordered Google (PDF) to hand

Yahoo! is teaming up with The Internet Archive to help build a digital archive of "globally sourced digital collections, including multimedia content". I understand this means books, academic material, audio

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Once again, a major media company is suing Google because of alleged copyright violations by users on YouTube, Google's popular video sharing site. Today, the Italian media company MediaSet filed