Federal judge denies class action certification in Google copyright case
A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Wednesday denied a motion to certify a putative class action against Google's YouTube involving copyright owners from around the world....
Germany court orders Google to remove defamatory autocomplete results
The Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe on Tuesday ordered Google to remove defamatory autocomplete results if notified. The plaintiffs, an unidentified company selling nutritional supplements and its founder,...
Federal judge dismisses Viacom copyright suit against YouTube
A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Thursday dissmissed a copyright infringement lawsuit by Viacom against Google's YouTube . Viacom, which owns Comedy Central, MTV and VH1,...
Germany's lower house of Parliament, the Bundestag , on Friday approved a bill to broaden copyright protections for online material, especially news articles. The new law would not charge royalties to search engines, including Google [official website; JURIST...
France court: Google not liable for copyrighted materials on YouTube
A French court ruled Tuesday that Google is not liable for damages to French television company TF1 for copyrighted sports and movies that were uploaded on YouTube . TF1 brought the suit...
JURIST Guest Columnist Olivier Sylvain of the Fordham University School of Law says that the Second Circuit opinion in Viacom v. YouTube represents a growing convergence of opinion in how to interpret the DMCA, which could ultimately be a good...
A court in Hamburg, Germany ruled Friday that Google's YouTube service must use a filter to prevent people from uploading music videos that the do not have the right to upload. The ruling effectively holds Google liable ...
Federal appeals court reinstates Viacom copyright infringement case against YouTube
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Thursday overturned an order dismissing a $1 billion copyright infringement suit against Google, by Viacom , for Google's YouTube ...
US Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) Janet Napolitano on Friday criticized other nations for not advancing and embracing new technology, thus leaving themselves open to attacks from cyber-criminals. At an international security conference in...
140 Characters to Copyright Infringement: Twitter Take-down Notices Raise Legal Questions
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Michael Mintz of My Media Labs says that while it makes perfect sense that copyright owners have been resorting to Twitter take-down notices in order to curb infringement, where secondary liability has been once removed infringement...
