If you happen to come across some silent YouTube videos today, there’s no need to start investigating your speaker settings and browser defaults. It seems that the "problem" is on YouTube’s end; the site’s owners have chosen to mute certain clips as a way of dealing with copyright violations.
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.
New Fingerprinting To Detect Copyrighted Videos
Online video sharing site Dailymotion says it will install a "fingerprinting" system that will enable it to automatically remove copyrighted videos off the site.
MSFT Live Search Books Adds Copyrighted Material
I’ve come to think of book search as Google’s specialty – there have been weeks in which the search engine giant made as many as two or three separate announcements about its various literature-related projects. Yet Microsoft’s also in this game, and the Redmond-based company has just expanded its Live Search Books collection.
Go Ahead And Use That Copyrighted Material, It’s Fair Use!
Most people would like to use a picture or some textual information they found on the Web, but they assume that copyright law prevents them from doing so. The copyright law provides a “fair use” exception that permits you to legally use copyrighted material for many purposes.