Peter Kafka in Media on October 18, 2011 at 3:00 am PT
The YouTube copyright case — now more than four years old — won’t go away. In the real world, though, most media companies have made their peace with the world’s biggest video site.
Liz Gannes in Social on February 9, 2011 at 12:00 am PT
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, who are waiting to see if an appeals court will invalidate their settlement with Facebook, flex their muscles and try to justify their use of the site.
Katherine Boehret in The Digital Solution on February 8, 2011 at 2:54 pm PT
Katie looks at Tello, a new website and mobile app that encourages users to chime in on their customer-service experiences, good or bad.
Liz Gannes in Social on December 10, 2010 at 8:30 am PT
Earlier this week there was some confusion about outlets reporting that Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss had filed another lawsuit against Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for stealing their social networking idea. The brief was actually filed back in June, but it’s still interesting reading.
Peter Kafka in Media on December 3, 2010 at 11:51 am PT
As promised, here’s Viacom’s appeal in the YouTube copyright case, where a federal court ruled overwhelmingly in Google’s favor earlier in the year.
John Paczkowski in News on July 8, 2010 at 1:53 pm PT
SCO really gives new meaning to “never say die,” doesn’t it? Predictably, the company is appealing the recent judgment against it in its legal battle with Novell over key Unix copyrights.
Peter Kafka in Media on June 23, 2010 at 6:05 pm PT
How do you celebrate a big legal victory? If you’re a YouTube co-founder, there’s really only one option.
Peter Kafka in Media on June 23, 2010 at 1:32 pm PT
Google has won its long-running case against Viacom, which accused the search giant’s YouTube of massive copyright infringement. Viacom promises to appeal the federal court ruling, which says that the video site is indeed protected by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. It’s a really big deal.
Kara Swisher in News on March 1, 2010 at 5:15 am PT
Oh, there’s no question in the often paranoid mind of BoomTown that Google is one scary company, mostly due to its huge market share in search across the globe, and deserves boatloads of scrutiny by governments for that.
But no matter how you slice the monopolistic pie, Google most certainly did not deserve, nor should anyone tolerate, the conviction by a judge in Italy of three of its execs on privacy violations.
Peter Kafka in Media on February 24, 2010 at 5:41 am PT
Maybe Google should just retire its passport for a bit.
In China, the search giant is battling hackers and the government, who may be one and the same. In Europe, the company is being hauled in front of an antitrust review. And Italy? Total disaster.
