Veoh triumphs over Universal Music in lawsuit on social media liability, gives lesson in the DMCA safe harbor

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"Jump on the Social Media Bandwagon" by Matt Hamm, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial 2.0. It is uncertain whether Veoh will be a major player in the future of online video. There is little doubt, however, that it has had a significant role in defining the boundaries of social media liability.

Veoh's victories against IoGroup and Universal Music have helped provide a model for social media and web 2.0 services in protecting themselves from liability.

Veoh's newest triumph is getting the district court to grant summary judgement that it is "entitled to the section 512(c) safe harbor."

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The AP is going stop bloggers from pirating content (or quoting in fair use for legitimate reasons)

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The AP says it is taking aim at "wholesale theft" with new technology that is aimed at targeting reposting of "entire articles." The new technology is supposed to simply flag questionable articles for lawyers and paralegals to then review.

The question is will the new technology be so limited, or will the AP use the technology to follow the same path it took filing DMCA takedown notices falsely characterizing the law regarding the Drudge retort's postings as follows:

"...the use is not fair use simply because the work copied happened to be
a news article and that the use is of the headline and the first few
sentences only ."

Essential Free and Open Source Software Toolkit

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A tool kit full of Free or Open Source software

Open source software has gained popularity because of its effectiveness, flexibility, security, and low cost. By adopting an entirely new philosophical approach to software development and user freedom, open source software empowers you, the downstream user not just to use it to perform a task, but to build upon, adapt, and modify it to fit your needs. In this way thousands of developers and users around the world are able to work to improve the software's effectiveness, flexibility, and security. Join the many people around the world using open source software, a way of life that encourages openness, sharing, community, innovation, and discovery.

New Media Rights to speak at California Western's Entertainment and Sports Law Society Spring Symposium

Spring Symposium Schedule
Saturday, March 7, 2009

Purchase Tickets at http://www.ticketderby.com/innerindex.php?eventid=225

Students - $20
Attorneys - $25 (CLE Credits offered)

9:30-10:00 a.m. Registration

10:00-10:45 The San Diego Firm Setting: More Personal Representation Outside LA
Rodney L. Donohoo, Law Offices of Rodney L. Donohoo
Abbas Kazerooni, Esq., Partner @ Kazerouni Law Group

10:45-11:00 Networking Coffee Break

11:00-12:00 MySpace & You Tube are Forcing the Law to Catch Up with Technology
Brooke Wentz, The Rights Workshop

Notify.me

New Media Rights Resident Filmmaker Sal Provenzano recently helped local San Diego, California startup Notify.me make a video describing its unique Web 2.0 service.

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Pipes

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Pipes really does allow you to "aggregate, manipulate, and mashup" the web. This tool is so powerful its hard to even begin scratching the surface. Create aggregated rss feeds for... goods or housing in your area, news from around the web, price alerts from auction sites, and anything else you can think of! If you ever wanted to dabble in programming, but didn't want the code thing to get in the way, here's your chance.

Choosing a Creative Commons License

Squidoo

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From the site:

"Squidoo is a website hosting hundreds of thousands of lenses. Each lens is one person's look at something online. Your take on football or business or the best thai food in town.

Lenses are free.

Lenses pay a royalty to hundreds of great charities.

Lenses get you credibility and traffic... and lenses only take a few minutes to build."

BlogBurst

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From the site:

"Pluck's BlogBurst network is an opt-in aggregation and syndication service that brings high-quality, topical blogs together with high-traffic web sites. With BlogBurst, bloggers gain visibility, audience reach and traffic through placement on major online publishers and media destinations in real time."