Posted on 12/18/2006 6:12:03 PM PST by shrinkermd
To deal with the mounting copyright issues swirling around video and other content online, a start-up founded by some respected Silicon Valley executives is taking a novel approach: combing the entire Web for unauthorized uses....
...The start-up, which was founded last year and has been in "stealth" mode, is emerging into the public eye today, at a time when some media and entertainment companies' frustration with difficulties identifying infringing uses of their content online is increasing. The problem has intensified with the proliferation and increasing usage of sites such as Google Inc.'s YouTube, which lets consumers post video clips.
Media and entertainment companies have so far relied on a combination of technology and their own scanning to protect their content online -- but with mixed results. Media companies have used digital-rights management technology designed to make it hard to copy or transfer files. But such measures have often proved to be clumsy, despised by consumers or quickly thwarted. That's the case for DRM technology built into DVDs to prevent them from being ripped onto computers, for example. Entertainment and media companies have also relied on their own staff to scan Web sites for infringing content. But even when such content is spotted and taken down, the companies often see the content pop up in the same places or elsewhere soon after.
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Strange that Google's fantastic success may be the source of the entire Internet's failure as the unlimited greed of small minds brings the system to a halt.
Imagine how google must feel, just having paid over $1B for YouTube only to have most of vulnerable to being shut down for copyright violations.
That said, copyright law has to come into this century.
Something tells me the jr. high kids are already one step ahead of them!
No worries, they have plenty of Bs.
This is a natural evolution of a complex life like system. Same as with computer viruses.
It will not shut down Internet exchange of content, it will make it less open and less transparent.
This could set off massive lawsuits. While I'm all for getting paid for one's copyrighted work (I write myself), the reality is that attempts to collect on every bit of intellectual property will be like a tax on the air to breathe.
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I makes me laugh that these are the same folks whose policy it is to ignore standards such as robots.txt files and the like. They think that whatever is on your system, is theirs for the taking (oh yeah... its just to examine it to make sure you are not infringing on a copyright).
This gonna work in the streets of China???
hmmmmmm
The other side of the coin is that, as is so often the case, the cost of pursuing one's rights (legal fees, etc.)and the risks inherent in litigation will be so prohibitive that most people will have to accept their losses, even in truly egregious cases.
On both ends, in and out.
Please don't say that! Congress would interpret that to mean extending copyright of anything Disney to life plus 500 years. LOL
And we'll just take a "reference copy" that's more convenient to examine... after all, we think we're working on behalf of the copyright owners, so it must be all right.
Yup. Copyright needs to be reduced to 14 year terms renewable once for a total of 28 years, with automatic copyright abolished from the code. If you want something to have copyright, you should have to register it.
While this may sound pretty draconian considering the modern eternal copyright, it would just take us back to the more reasonable state of the law circa 1900.
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