On July 2nd, the following article was written by Kurt Opsahl for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Yesterday, in the Viacom v. Google litigation, the federal court for the Southern District of New York ordered Google to...
NEW YORK - Dismissing privacy concerns, a federal judge overseeing a $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against YouTube has ordered the popular online video-sharing service to disclose who watches which video clips and...
Yikes! Viacom filed suit against Google in March 2007, seeking over $1 billion in damages for allowing users to upload clips of Viacom's copyright material. They wanna use the information to prove that infringing material is...
I found some evidence Google tried hard to protect user confidentiality, in some letters to the judge in the court docket of Viacom v. After the Order [PDF; text here] issued, Google didn't give up, but is continuing even now...
Google's purchase of YouTube always seemed questionable to some observers: it looked as if Google were buying itself a whole new source of copyright lawsuits. One of the benefits of that purchase came through on July 2, when a...
or more accurately partially won, a motion to compel Google to turn over a lot of YouTube records so that the court can tell what proportion of videos are infringing compared to how many are not. Google opposed the motion,...
An appeal by Google against the decision of a federal judge in New York that it must hand over details of every video ever viewed on YouTube to Viacom was not only widely expected, but thought to be pretty much a given. A...
Reuters NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO - A U.S. judge's order to Google Inc to turn over YouTube user data to Viacom Inc sparked an outcry on Thursday from privacy advocates in the midst of a legal showdown over video piracy. Viacom,...
Great news came out his week regarding internet video. Google has been ordered to provide Viacom the log files of YouTube users. This data will be used to prove that copyright infringing videos are the significant majority of...
A U.S. judge's order to Google Inc to turn over YouTube user data to Viacom Inc sparked an outcry on Thursday from privacy advocates in the midst of a legal showdown over video piracy. Viacom, owner of movie studio Paramount...