The Legal side of Internet Television including Digital Rights Management (DRM), Intellectual Property and Piracy
Legal, DRM, Piracy & IP
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has been told by the United States Court of Appeals that it may not have the...
Here is something that TV companies like Viacom are going to love: The Japanese government is apparently considering allowing anyone and...
If you’ve been reading Web TV Wire for a while you may remember when QuickSilverScreen (QSS), a website that links to...
Last month Thailand banned YouTube from the entire country because of an insulting video showing the Thai King. The video showed...
When Google acquired YouTube many considered it was only a matter of time before a TV company decided to step into...
About 3 years ago, way before the internet TV revolution had taken off, I noticed a number of people swarming around...
A New York court ruled yesterday that digital music downloads in the form of videos or music files are not subject...
Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google, has stated that YouTube is almost ready to implement a copyright detection system that will...
Joost has just announced that it will be adding independent films to its lineup of channels, but when I looked closer...
Virage has announced the release of Virage Automatic Copyright Infringement Detection or ACID for short. Virage is a division of Autonomy...
MahTV, one of the many sites that list pirate TV episodes available on video sharing sites like YouTube, received a Cease...
Remember back in February when Steve Jobs of Apple said he wanted to abolish DRM and encouraged media owners not to...
Did Google remove a page on my site because they didn’t like what I was saying? I recently wrote an article...
YouTube has been completely banned from Thailand after its parent company Google, refused to remove a clip which insulted the Thai...
If you haven’t noticed you can have active links in the descriptions of videos that you upload and store on YouTube....
A Texas judge ruled last December that SuperCrossLive.com, owned by Robert Davis, was violating copyright laws by directly linking to audiocasts...
The RIAA is definitely one of the most hated organizations among internet users along with the MPAA for frequently preventing people...
Summary: There have been 3 court cases in the US where sites were forced to take down links leading to infringing...
Summary: QuickSilverScreen is a US based website that is being forced to shut down or be given away for free after...
