A US district court in NYC has found LimeWire (and its Chairman on a personal basis) liable for secondary infringment of copyright in Arista Records (and others) v Lime Group LLC (and Mark Gorton, Director) [2010] 06 CV 5936-KMW.
LimeWire is basically a sharing service for illegal content which like many similar sites attempted to argue that it was a mere facilitator for illegal activity and not really involved.
The issue appeared to turn on the question of whether or not LimeWire had induced its users to breach copyright and in this case the court found that it had. This judgement, hot on the heels of the Newzbin case, places a lot of the “sharing” networks on very thin ice when it comes to the question of legal liability. It seems that the copyright owners are having a good run at the moment as in the future VC’s and senior managers may looks carefully at these “sharing” platforms to determine if they may attract personal liability. Whether the long arm of the law can reach out to the “usual suspects” of YouTube, Ustream, Justin TV and the ISP’s remains to be seen.
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LimeWire takes direct hit in piracy battle
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report claims that the UK has the worst copyright laws of developed states.
This may be so, but the UK’s legal system, based on precedence and a large degree of common sense rather than statute will probably serve us well in a world where everything changes every day.
New laws would be out of date by the time they are written and there is a danger that they would close loopholes like the ‘Redifussion ruling’ which currently enable a more open
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Jesse Stay, an online friend of mine, has weighed in on the controversy surrounding the release of copyright material owned by the LDS church by Wikileaks. He says,
As an author, and Social Media developer, and Mormon, I thought I’d pipe in on what I think of the WikiLeaks issues going on. It’s as simple [...]
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Ina chooses Anevia for its transition to IPTV – April 29, 2008
Anevia today announced that it deployed its innovative products within Ina. With a 70-year-old experience in TV, 50,000 programmes added each year, 3 million hours archived and receiving a hundred of 24/24 TV channels for copyright registration, Ina becomes a leading company in the field of VOD and TV archiving.
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VoD Archiving
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Smoke & Mirrors Chooses Digital Rapids Encoders – November 29, 2006
Smoke & Mirrors has purchased Digital Rapids’ StreamZ encoder, to add to the four units they already have in operation at their London offices.Providing a wealth of experience and knowledge in full service post-production, all Smoke & Mirrors’ sites are fully networked, enabling facilities to share resources and expand local capacity.
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IPTV Encoding
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