The Legal side of Internet Television including Digital Rights Management (DRM), Intellectual Property and Piracy
Legal, DRM, Piracy & IP
Many people are still using the Internet to gain access to copyrighted content without paying for it, despite the various industries’...
Richard O’Dwyer is facing going to prison in the United States for being the man behind the TVShack website. But the...
Kino.to is the latest website to be taken offline for linking to copyrighted material. This despite previous cases suggesting linking rather...
Despite winning an Oscar for its incredible portrayal of working under pressure in the Iraq war zone, The Hurt Locker wasn’t...
A case which has been running since all the way back in 2004, when the television business looked very different than...
Brightcove has been awarded a very broad patent for online video features. Features which are universally used by other sites and...
The YouTube Copyright School is now open and accepting pupils who need re-educating about what can and can’t legitimately be posted...
Round One in the battle between ivi TV and a host of TV broadcasters has gone to the latter, with a...
In one of the most bizarre stories I have heard in a long time, a YouTube prankster has been arrested on...
There are some copyrighted films available on iTunes. OK, so unless you’re Russian you are unlikely to have ever heard of...
If only all television networks could be as forward-thinking as the BBC. Then again, not all are paid for by an...
As has been expected since, well, the moment the verdict was handed down, Viacom has appealed against the district court’s summary...
I was beginning to think YouTube was never going to remove any video from the world’s most popular online video site...
Well that didn’t last long. Just days after turkey lifted its ban on YouTube, the site has once again been made...
As you may have heard, or experienced if you’ve already bought a Google TV device, some of the major U.S. networks...
Surprise, surprise. In the week that regulators were set to decide whether to launch an investigation into YouView, BSkyB launches a...
As expected ivi TV is being sued for its re-streaming online TV service. The range of broadcasters and networks involved in...
Can this actually be classed as news? Let’s face it, Viacom was always going to appeal the decision in the YouTube...
This really hasn’t been a good week for Hulu, although it has been a good week for those people who want...
With YouTube and other online video sites playing ball, and file-sharers being stepped on left, right, and center, the attention is...
The judge in the long-running Google Vs. Viacom copyright infringement lawsuit has granted Google summary judgment, effectively meaning the search giant...
One of the biggest and best Web video memes of the past few years is the one which sees Hitler’s final...
Hulu is going great guns providing a free catchup TV on-demand service in the United States. However, there are now claims...
Viacom’s $1 billion lawsuit against Google over copyright infringement on YouTube is coming to a head, with a court battle likely...
The 2010 Academy Awards are being held tonight, and Avatar and The Hurt Locker are the front-runners for the coveted ‘Best...
YouTube could be heading for $1 billion in annual revenue as Google’s advertising efforts start paying off. Unfortunately, Google is facing...
Hulu is losing all Comedy Central content, which includes the immensely popular The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. What’s more,...
The original Rickroll video – essentially Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up – was removed by YouTube in a move...
The Italian legal system today faces charges of being an absolute joke. Not only were Google executives brought to trial over...
The results of two recent court cases in the U.K. suggest that linking to but not hosting copyrighted content isn’t illegal,...
