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Search Engine Watch September 26, 2007 Grant Crowell |
Copyright Law: What Search Marketers Should Know (Part 1) Most online copyright infringement issues are best handled by being diplomatic and professional, and can be handled with some simple legal procedures. |
Search Engine Watch October 18, 2007 Grant Crowell |
Trademark Law - What Search Marketers Should Know, Part 2 Important tips and tactics used by online intellectual property attorneys and legal counsels for search engines, for both protecting trademark material and respecting the trademarks of others. |
Search Engine Watch October 3, 2007 Grant Crowell |
Search and the Law: Attorney Clarke Douglas Walton Clarke Douglas Walton, an attorney and former VP of an SEM firm, discusses trademark usage in PPC advertising, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and future legal issues on the horizon for search marketers. |
Search Engine Watch October 9, 2007 Grant Crowell |
Search and the Law: Professor Eric Goldman Eric Goldman discusses self-service IP enforcement, current search engine lawsuits, and the future of search engine law. |
Search Engine Watch October 17, 2007 Grant Crowell |
Trademark Law - What Search Marketers Should Know, Part 1 Since search became monetized, trademarks have been a front-and-center issue. Today, with the proliferation of paid and organic search listings, search and trademarks have fed off of one another to become a growing dilemma for search engines and advertisers alike. |
Search Engine Watch October 20, 2005 Grant Crowell |
Copyrights, Trademarks and Search Engines Web site owners must be on constant guard with copyrighted and trademarked materials, both to make sure competitors don't 'borrow' content and to avoid provoking search engines in legal gray areas. |
Linux Journal July 2001 Lawrence Rosen |
Copyright Confusion Do I need to put a copyright notice on my software?... Can a software license restrict my ability to use software?... |
Search Engine Watch April 2, 2002 Danny Sullivan |
Google Embroiled In Scientology Debate Google found itself accused of censorship last month, after it removed some pages from an anti-Scientology web site in response to a legal request made by the Church of Scientology... |
Search Engine Watch October 4, 2007 Grant Crowell |
Search and the Law: Attorney Deborah Wilcox Deborah Wilcox, co-chair of a national intellectual property litigation practice, discusses changes in attitudes toward online intellectual property, the challenges courts face in litigating online IP and trademark cases, and consumer confusion over search ads. |
Information Today May 2007 David Mirchin |
Copyright: Viacom's $1 Billion Claim Against YouTube Viacom claims that YouTube has actively infringed Viacom's copyrighted works by publicly performing more than 150,000 unauthorized clips of copyrighted programming owned by Viacom. The outcome could rewrite the rules on content. |
InternetNews October 15, 2007 David Needle |
Can Google's Video ID System Secure YouTube? Beta version of YouTube Video Identification system is launched. |
Search Engine Watch February 23, 2005 Grant Crowell |
Search Engines and Legal Issues A competitor is running a search engine ad with your trademarked brand name. Another has copied your web site without permission. You suspect another of driving up your advertising costs through click fraud. What are your legal options? |
InternetNews May 1, 2007 Michael Hickins |
Google Says Viacom Suit 'Threatens Expression' Google claims YouTube rules abide by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. |
InternetNews August 26, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
A Perfect Storm of Infringement Adult publisher Perfect 10 is calling Google a massive infringer of copyright as part of a lawsuit. The case rests largely on the court's interpretation of fair use, but there are several additional legal wrinkles. |
Search Engine Watch October 26, 2009 Ron Jones |
Internet Law 101, Part 2 Learn the basics about copyrighting your Web site content, Web agreements, privacy policy issues, and domain issues including cybersquatting, typosquatting, hijacking, and transfer fraud. |
InternetNews May 25, 2007 Gerit Quealy |
All's Fair in Fair Use? The Viacom/Google-YouTube copyright skirmish could be the latest in a string of lawsuits desperately attempting to clarify what constitutes fair use. |
AskMen.com Ross Bonander |
5 Things You Didn't Know: Copyright Copyright constitutes one aspect of intellectual property law; here are five things you may not know about it. |
InternetNews October 18, 2006 Roy Mark |
Universal Sues Video Sites The simmering legal questions surrounding video sites and their use of copyrighted material hit the courts for the first time late Monday with Universal Music Group filing infringement suits against Grouper and Bolt. |
InternetNews August 10, 2007 Stuart J. Johnston |
Now Perfect 10 Sues Microsoft Nude model publisher claims Microsoft's search engine infringes its copyrights by displaying thumbnails of pirated photos. |
InternetNews July 20, 2007 Nicholas Carlson |
Google, Viacom Lawyers Square Off on DMCA Viacom and Google go to court July 27 to decide which of the two companies should bear the cost of keeping Viacom's copyrighted content off YouTube. The outcome could impact blogs and photo-sharing sites, and stifle Web 2.0. |
InternetNews August 14, 2007 Nicholas Carlson |
Viacom v. Google Turns to Comedy Comedy Central stars Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart join a cavalcade of executives and lawyers that both sides plan to depose in the landmark case between Viacom and Google. |
InternetNews December 19, 2003 Roy Mark |
ISPs Win a Round in File-Swapping Tussle In a major blow to the music industry's campaign to sue individual file-swappers, court sides with Internet service providers over revealing customers' identities. |
Searcher May 2007 Stephanie C. Ardito |
Social Networking and Video Web Sites: MySpace and YouTube Meet the Copyright Cops The author thinks the media giants will eventually calm down and learn to work with social networking and video Web sites. Otherwise, these outlets risk losing their substantial customer base, not to mention access to revolutionary marketing strategies and technologies. |
Information Today December 31, 2007 George H. Pike |
Congress Proposes to Enhance IP Enforcement and Penalties The Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property (PRO-IP) Act, H.R. 4279, proposes a number of steps to strengthen the enforcement of copyright, trademark, and patent laws and to increase criminal and civil penalties for copyright infringement. |
InternetNews November 11, 2005 Roy Mark |
Public Knowledge Pans AG's Copyright Proposal Digital rights group Public Knowledge picks apart legislation that puts copyright theft in criminal code. |
InternetNews May 9, 2007 Nicholas Carlson |
NBC, Viacom: Friends at Arm's Length on DMCA NBC Universal and Viacom don't want Robert Tur taking them down with him in his case against YouTube. |
InternetNews October 18, 2007 Jack Rogers |
Media Bigwigs Set Guidelines for Policing Web Videos CBS, Microsoft, NBC, News Corp., Disney, and others lay down the law to fight copyright infringement online. |
InternetNews August 7, 2007 Nicholas Carlson |
Songsters Join Fight Against YouTube The National Music Publishers' Association will join the Football Associate Premier League's case against YouTube. |
PC World January 2004 Andrew Brandt |
Privacy Watch: Subpoenas Can Unlock Your Privacy Under a provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, anyone who who claims that you violated their copyright can force your ISP to reveal your contact information. |
Searcher September 2012 Peter B. Hirtle |
Feature: When is 1923 Going to Arrive and Other Complications of the u.s. Public Domain The public domain has always existed, but the rise of digital and networked technologies has made it particularly important. Our copyright laws represent an agreement among powerful publishing and media interests that is intended to work for their mutual benefit. |
InternetNews November 17, 2006 Andy Patrizio |
Universal Sues Fox Over MySpace Downloads Universal Music Group sued News Corp.'s MySpace subsidiary late on Friday, claiming that the social networking site has been indifferent to copyright violations of Universal's songs and videos. |
InternetNews June 25, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas |
IP Versus IP When intellectual property makes its way onto the Internet, things can get really messy. |
InternetNews March 15, 2007 Nicholas Carlson |
Viacom's $1B Exaggeration? A studio rival says Viacom's suit against Google for its alleged YouTube misdeeds is a bit much. |
InternetNews December 26, 2007 Nicholas Carlson |
Google's Problem Solving Year? Viacom sued Google for $1 billion over YouTube copyright infringement in 2007, but both parties know the problem is is more likely to be solved by an engineer than a lawyer. |
InternetNews February 21, 2006 Susan Kuchinskas |
Google and A9 May Stop Showing Perfect 10s Adult publisher Perfect 10 won a partial victory in its efforts to stop search engines' display of its photos in image search results. |
InternetNews October 15, 2008 Richard Adhikari |
YouTube Rebuffs McCain Palin Campaign Ad YouTube today rejected a request by the McCain-Palin campaign to give special consideration to videos posted by political candidates and campaigns on its site. |
InternetNews January 16, 2004 Roy Mark |
ISPs Ignore RIAA's New P2P Ploy A cold shoulder so far for a proposal that ISPs become agents in the battle against copyright infringement |
Salon.com April 15, 2002 Damien Cave |
In defense of copyright A top intellectual property lawyer argues that the Supreme Court's decision to review the Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act is plain wrong... |
InternetNews June 13, 2007 Nicholas Carlson |
YouTube to ID Copyrighted Content YouTube will begin testing technology to identify user-uploaded video content copyrighted by TimeWarner and Walt Disney. |
Search Engine Watch April 27, 2004 Danny Sullivan |
Spam Rules Require Effective Spam Police How effective rule enforcement by the search engines regarding spam would help matters, and the impact better spam disclosure would have for searchers and marketers alike. |
InternetNews May 16, 2007 Stuart J. Johnston |
Google Wins Infringement Appeal A federal appeals court panel ruled Wednesday that Google did not infringe the copyrights of an adult photo publisher by displaying thumbnails of proprietary pictures in its image search engine. |
PC World August 31, 2001 Frank Thorsberg |
Will Copyright Law Kill Your Computing Habits? The Digital Millennium Copyright Act faces scrutiny and its first cases--including Sklyarov's prosecution. |
Entrepreneur June 2007 |
In the Know Find out all you can about patents, trademarks and copyrights now - your business will thank you later. |
InternetNews January 21, 2004 Roy Mark |
RIAA Files 532 New Lawsuits The music industry files its largest batch of copyright infringement actions to date. |
InternetNews December 13, 2007 Sean Gallagher |
Consumer, Industry Groups Spar Over Piracy Bill PRO IP's supporters testify in Washington that the act will curb counterfeit bags and DVDs. Critics fear it will hurt fair use and new media models. |
Salon.com August 31, 2001 Damien Cave |
Copywrong? A government report giving the Digital Millennium Copyright Act a passing grade is a disaster for the general public, say critics... |
D-Lib August 2008 Peter B. Hirtle |
Copyright Renewal, Copyright Restoration, and the Difficulty of Determining Copyright Status It is almost impossible to determine with certainty whether a work published from 1923 through 1963 in the US is in the public domain because of copyright restoration of foreign works. |
T.H.E. Journal October 2003 |
Are You Breaking the Law? Copyright guidelines for video streaming and digital video in the classroom |
IEEE Spectrum April 2008 Kirk Teska |
What Can You (Legally) Take From the Web? Web sites and bloggers beware: copyright law applies to you too. |
Information Today August 27, 2012 George H. Pike |
Georgia State University Declared 'Prevailing Party' in Copyright Battle GSU was sued for copyright infringement for its practice of scanning publishers' works for use in course webpages, on courseweb software such as Blackboard, and its e-reserve services. |