Posts Tagged ‘copyright’

Expanding DMCA Safe Harbors

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

Over at the Wired’s Threat Level blog is this post about the recent legal “victory” for online content hosting sites like Veoh, YouTube, MySpace and others like them, which appear to have added yet another layer of copyright infringement immunity to their arsenal.  As Wired explains, the victory occurred in the ongoing California federal court case UMG v. Veoh, in which (more…)

The Legalese Behind Google Chrome

Friday, December 12th, 2008

We recently came across Read Write Web’s coverage of Google’s new Chrome Browser.When we saw their article this morning about the controversy over Chrome’s End User License Agreement (EULA), including their call for a trained legal eye to have a second look at it, we couldn’t resist.  After all, I did say in my previous Transferring Copyrights post that I’d write about Open Source Software soon.

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