The Legal side of Internet Television including Digital Rights Management (DRM), Intellectual Property and Piracy
Legal, DRM, Piracy & IP
It could be said that from the moment Universal Music brought its lawsuit against the company its fate was sealed. And...
Hulu’s preposterous exclusion of Boxee has now made it to Congress, with the head of NBC being directly asked about the...
Silvio Berlusconi’s government has been a controversial one. To say the least. But its latest innovation is one which will directly...
It looked as though the Perry et al v. Schwarzenegger et al case attempting to have Prop 8 overturned was going...
Netflix has recently announced a deal with Warner Bros. which will see new movie releases on the service delayed until a...
A lawsuit has been filed by LG Electronics against TV Interactive (TVI) to counter the allegations made by TVI that LG...
Hollywood is running scared of Web piracy, and is fighting tooth and nail to prevent its big releases being shared over...
Piracy and copyright infringement seem to go hand in hand with the Internet. And online video is no exception. Now, the...
The Italian prosecutors currently pursuing Google and its executives through court in Milan are seeking jail sentences for all four of...
If an entity is being threatened with extinction it has two options: evolve, or die. The Pirate Bay has chosen the...
ZillionTV has had some trouble moving from being a good idea to an actual product. This has led to some particularly...
What do you do if your current policy is failing to pay dividends? Change your strategy and try something new or...
As a trial begins in Italy against Google employees over an offensive user-uploaded video, the question of who is responsible for...
Hollywood has just enjoyed a record breaking Summer at the U.S. box office. This despite the studios and filmmakers constantly warning...
CBS is the only one of the four major U.S. television networks which doesn’t offer any content through Hulu. And doesn’t...
Although the case isn’t technically over yet, the fact that the judge in Universal Music Group’s copyright case against Veoh has...
Online video offers a chance for fame, a chance that some people really can’t resist taking hold of. But this fame,...
British YouTube users will soon be able to start watching their favorite music videos after Google and PRS for Music settled...
The Pirate Bay was one of the biggest and most notorious torrent sites around. Loved by users, hated by content owners....
Ustream is being sued by Square Ring, a company owned by boxer Roy Jones Jr. over the alleged streaming of a...
The good news is that YouTube is streaming the original Ghostbusters movie in full for free for a whole week as...
YouTube was once an open playground where people could happily upload copyrighted content without fear of a takedown or reprisals. But...
There is evidence to suggest that the wave of new music streaming services are directly influencing the number of illegal music...
Hulu is a brilliant service which only adds to a typical viewer’s options for what to watch and when to watch...
The Pirate Bay has sold out, to a Swedish company no one has ever heard of. The acquisition has been confirmed...
The video streaming sector of online video is already a very crowded place. Lead by YouTube, there are also many other...
ISPs have been showing concern for the amount of bandwidth used by online video for some time now. However, the first...
Bing, Microsoft’s latest attempt at changing Internet search, has already caused controversy thanks to its live video thumbnails search results. Not...
Piracy, in all its many forms, is illegal the world over. However, Internet piracy is a law unto itself, with different...
The BBC iPlayer is currently a free service to all those living in the UK. However, that could be about to...
