 | INTERNET LAW - Use of Online Videos in the United States |
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| | Pew Internet & American Life Project, www.pewinternet.org
Monday, September 24, 2007
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| | Fifty-seven percent of online adults have used the internet to watch or download video, and 19% do so on a typical day.
The growing adoption of broadband combined with a dramatic push by content providers to promote online video has helped to pave the way for mainstream audiences to embrace online video viewing. Three-quarters of broadband users (74%) who enjoy high-speed connections at both home and work watch or download video online.
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| INTERNET LAW - Israeli Court Holds Forum Manager Liable For User Content |
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| | IBLS Contributor: Attorney Odia Kagan, Tel Aviv, Israel, odia@okaganlaw.com
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
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| | In C 032986/03 Moshe Boshmitz v. Anat Aronowitz, Magistrates Court of Tel-Aviv Jaffa, Israeli Judge Shoshana Almagor held that the manager of an online forum may be liable for the content published by the forum users on a theory of negligence. The defendant, Ms. Aronowitz, was the manager of a forum dealing with the welfare of animals in the popular Israeli website “Walla!” The Claimant, Dr. Boshmitz, a veterinarian and an owner of a farm that breeds monkeys and sells them for research purposes, filed suit against the defendant regarding libelous statements she made against him in the forum as well as statements made by users of the forum. [More...] |
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| INTERNET LAW - Long Player: Five-Year Dispute Ends Successfully For BPI against CD Wow! |
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| | IBLS Contributor: Chris Scroggs, Wards Solicitors, United Kingdom, chris.scroggs@wards.uk.com
Monday, June 25, 2007
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| | Last month saw the conclusion (or did it…?) of a long running battle between the BPI, on behalf of record companies, and CD Wow!, effectively fighting on behalf of consumers everywhere. The case had its genesis in 2002, when the BPI issued proceedings against CD Wow!, alleging that it had illegally imported discs into the UK, from Asia. That case was settled in January 2004, when CD Wow! gave undertakings to the court. The allegation was that CD Wow! was buying discs in the Far East and selling them to consumers in the UK. CD Wow! accepted that it was selling cut-price CDs but claimed that they were all licensed to sell in the UK and that there was nothing improper, let alone illegal, about what they were doing. Not so, said the BPI, who felt it was a clear case of "parallel importing".
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| INTERNET LAW - American Studios' Secret Plan to Lock down European TV Devices |
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| | IBLS Contributor: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Press Releases, www.eff.org.
Monday, March 26, 2007
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| | San Francisco - An international consortium of television and technology companies is devising draconian anti-consumer restrictions for the next generation of TVs in Europe and beyond, at the behest of American entertainment giants.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is the only public interest group to have gained entrance into the secretive meetings of the Digital Video Broadcasting Project (DVB), a group that creates the television and video specifications used in Europe, Australia, and much of Asia and Africa. In a report released today, EFF shows how U.S. movie and television companies have convinced DVB to create new technical specifications that would build digital rights management technologies into televisions. These specifications are likely to take away consumers' rights, which will subsequently be sold back to them piecemeal -- so entertainment fans will have to pay again and again for legitimate uses of lawfully acquired digital television content.
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| INTERNET LAW - The effects of a “happy slapping” epidemic: European governments crack down on the recording and distribution of violence online |
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| | Editor, Maricelle Ruiz, IBLS Director – Europe
Monday, March 19, 2007
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| | Several years ago, the United Kingdom noticed a disturbing pastime among a segment of its youths – “happy slapping”. Individuals or groups found amusing the slapping or striking of strangers while accomplices filmed the assaults using mobile phones. The images were later showcased on the Internet. In recent years, the “happy slapping” virus has spread into France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Ireland, Denmark, Sweden and Switzerland, among other European countries. And governments have had enough of this cruel and sometimes lethal form of entertainment. [More...] |
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| INTERNET LAW - Cell phone Ringtones are Digital Phonorecord Deliveries |
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| | Martha L. Arias, IBLS Director.
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
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| | The Copyright Royalty Board (“the Board”) held on October 16th, 2006 that ringtones made available on cellular phones or similar devices are digital phonorecord deliveries as defined by 17 U.S.C. § 115, irrespective of whether the ringtone is monophonic (one melody only), polyphonic (having melody and harmony) or mastertone (digital sound). [More...] |
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| INTERNET LAW - Digital Downloads Produce Hollywood Labor Unrest |
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| | Gregory J. Hessinger, Morgan Lewis, ghessinger@morganlewis.com & Julie Liebenberg, Morgan Lewis, jliebenberg@morganlewis.com
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
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| | At the center of the digital debate is the question of residuals, a contractual form of profit sharing that compensates talent for the use of their work in supplemental markets or the reuse of that work in the original medium. [More...] |
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| INTERNET LAW - Free-Legal Digital Music may be a Reality Soon |
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| | Martha L. Arias, IBLS Director.
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
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| | Last weekend, high-rank executives of technology companies met at the Annual Global Trade Fair for the Music Industry in Midem, France. One of the most significant reports from this event is the possibility that one of the foremost music companies in the world may launch the sale of unrestricted digital files in MP3 format. This comes as recognition of the influence of internet in the music industry nowadays. The reality is that folks cannot, or, are not willing to, spend USD$18 or more in a CD. Instead, they download music from the internet and/or 'share' music with their pals. [More...] |
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| INTERNET LAW - France applies tougher IPR law; sentences violators to prison |
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| | Editor, Maricelle Ruiz, IBLS Director – Europe
Monday, January 22, 2007
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| | French authorities are cracking down on individuals who share files illegally online through the use of a recently amended and tougher law for the protection of Intellectual Property Rights. A French court has reportedly sentenced an Internet user to two months in prison and requested payment of a € 40,000 fine for illegally downloading some 400 movies from a peer-to-peer network. According to the EFE News Agency, the fine money will be distributed among the members of an association of movie and video producers that filed the lawsuit. [More...] |
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| INTERNET LAW - Government and Industry join forces to regulate online film distribution |
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| | Editor, Maricelle Ruiz, IBLS Director -- Europe
Wednesday, June 14, 2006
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| | The recently held Cannes International Film Festival premiered more than movies. It set the standards for an emerging, yet promising economic model – Film Online. Amidst the flurry of movie stars dressed in the latest designer garbs, top executives from the global film and online industries, as well as high government officials adopted the European Charter for Film Online. The Charter is an industry consensus to develop a legitimate market for online sales and distribution of films. The European Commission, which began promoting this project last year, considers the Charter “the starting point” for a wider Content Online Policy. [More...] |
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| INTERNET LAW - FTC v. Web-Company offering to download music and copyrighted material through a P2P file-sharing service. |
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| | Martha L. Arias, LL.B., J.D., LL.M.
Wednesday, June 14, 2006
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| | The US Federal Trade Commission –FTC- recently settled a case with a US web-company that offered its clients to download and share copyrighted music, movies, or games through a P2P file-sharing system for a monthly payment of $24.95. The web-company did not provide its clients with any license to download these copyrighted materials; instead, its web site assured the process was “100% legal.” [More...] |
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| INTERNET LAW - Music Copyright: Commission Recommendation on Management of Online Rights in Musical Works |
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| | Charlie McCreevy, European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services
Thursday, May 04, 2006
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| INTERNET LAW - Online music distribution providing both opportunities and challenges according to OECD report |
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| | OECD
Thursday, May 04, 2006
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| INTERNET LAW - European Broadcasting Regulators strengthen their cross-border cooperation under the Television without Frontiers Directive |
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| | European Union
Thursday, May 04, 2006
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| INTERNET LAW - Swiss film industry joins EU MEDIA programme |
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| | European Union
Thursday, May 04, 2006
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| INTERNET LAW - Microsoft Windows, Windows Media Player, and Internet Explorer Vulnerabilities |
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| | U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team
Thursday, May 04, 2006
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