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Google has responded to Viacom’s $1 billion copyright lawsuit, saying that YouTube has not infringed on the rights of media companies and that Viacom’s suit threatens the viability of YouTube and of other sites like it.
Google says that YouTube is protected under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which states that service providers that host other people’s content are safe from liability as long as they remove material quickly once a content owner claims infringement, writes CNET News.
Viacom says YouTube is not protected because the company has prior knowledge of infringing material and is also profiting from pirated works.
Michael Kwun, managing council for litigation at Google, says that Google offers the best available tools for protecting copyright owners, including a “hash blocking system” that identifies the digital fingerprint of content that has been removed for copyright reasons.
CBS Radio and Yahoo, two of the largest online radio providers, are combining their online radio stations, beginning early next year.
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Cox Enterprises, Inc. announced today that the company is bringing together its three media units - Cox Newspapers, Cox Television and Cox Radio - under a new organization named Cox Media Group, Inc., effective January 2009. The subsidiary will be headquartered…
Target is one of the first brands to create an iPhone application. The Target “gift globe” allows iPhone users to shake their phones to launch a snow-fall effect.
When the snow clears, a gift idea from Target is revealed. Users…
ABC is set to launch a slew of new series in a midseason shuffle. Primetime: What Would You Do? returns Tuesday, Jan. 9, in the 10pm time slot. The show is a hidden camera experiment in which actors stage scenarios…
Only 28% of the audience of an average news program, website or magazine gets valuable information about products and services advertised there, making news venues less effective at conveying ad messages than all forms of media combined (see chart), according…
Effective immediately, any telemarketing call that delivers a prerecorded message must include a quick and easy way to opt-out of receiving future calls. The opt-out must work both for consumers who answer these calls in person and for those whose…
