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YouTube Rejects McCain Campaign Request

Earlier this week, general counsel for the McCain campaign petitioned YouTube to give special treatment to political ads scrubbed from the site because of DMCA take down notices. General counsel for YouTube roundly rejected that request.

Google, Viacom Draw Lines In YouTube Suit

Google needs to fight off Viacom or get the suit dropped if they hope to withstand other potential lawsuits against the YouTube video sharing service over copyright infringement.

SeeqPod Finds Warner Lawsuit

The Electronic Frontier Foundation called the Warner Music Group lawsuit against SeeqPod "an attack by the entertainment industry on the DMCA safe harbors that protect hosting services and search engines."

Google Zaps Cruise Scientology Video

Tom Cruise's appearance and speech at a Church of Scientology event in 2004 has circulated on the Internet, but the version hosted on Google's YouTube service has been taken offline.

Careful, That C&D Letter Might Be Copyrighted

Here's a case that'll likely leave you with an icky feeling. A lawyer for a large company in Idaho copyrighted a cease-and-desist letter, and when an anonymous blogger posted the letter on his blog, the company subpoenaed the blog hosting company for the blogger's identity in order to pursue copyright infringement claims.

YouTube Honors DMCA Requests

Wired’s Science blog talks about how Rational Response Squad, an anti-creationist group, had its YouTube videos taken down after DMCA requests by a counter group.

Viacom Once Abusing DMCA Again?

It appears Viacom hasn’t learned its lesson after its last abuse of the DMCA takedown notice. It’s now targeting a YouTube video that includes a clip of a VH1 show, which includes the unauthorized use of video created by the person who uploaded the YouTube clip. Confused? This should help:

Here's Your 15 Minutes And Your DMCA Notice

It didn't take long for user-generated content to translate to user-generated profit. But as the giants have their weird litigious and incestuous thing going on both in the courtroom and in the boardroom, YouTube users aren't just getting the shaft, they're getting mud kicked in their faces.

Google Disappears Facebook Code Blog

When Google-owned Blogger sends you a Digital Millennium Copyright Act take-down notice, at least they're polite about it and liberally use the word "alleged." But they only ask once, as the person who posted Facebook's source code on his Blogspot blog learned.

Veoh Squares Off With Universal

Internet Television company Veoh is suing Universal Music Group in federal court to reinforce its rights as a copyright complaint company under the safe harbor provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).