Archive for the ‘youtube’ Category

YouTube Fires Back At Viacom

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

As we say in the legal profession, 'issue has been joined' in Viacom v. YouTube. In its answer to Viacom's complaint (PDF), filed Friday, YouTube says Viacom's lawsuit is intended to 'challenge... the protections of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") that Congress enacted a decade ago to encourage the ...

Congress Gets Their Own Piece of YouTube to Host Videos

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

YouTube has promised a commercial-free zone in the near future to help Congress deal with the problem of hosting campaign videos that were technically breaking the rule of not redirecting constituents to a commercial site.Read the full story

Flickr Flicks at Video

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

What's the big deal? Flickr, which is owned by Yahoo, is hardly about to slay the Goliath that is Google's YouTube. But while this may not sound like an online revolution, it does significantly enhance the Flickr experience for its 42 million monthly visitors. Kakul Srivastava, the company's director of ...

EU lawmakers fume over erotic YouTube clip - Online World

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

Commission spokesman Martin Selmayr said the shots in the clip — drawn from award-winning films such as "Amelie" and "Bad Education" — highlighted Europe's tradition of rich cinema. Selmayr said Tuesday that he had not received any complaints about the video, which was presented at the Berlin Film Festival in ...