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If you document cops’ behavior on film…

Walter Olson — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:20:27 +0000

…better get ready for the YouTube takedown demands — or for efforts to obtain the identity of you as the poster [Popehat]

Tags: photography, police, YouTube

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YouTube, Flickr in peril?

Walter Olson — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 05:09:02 +0000

Concerns are mounting about something called the Stop Online Piracy Act, billed as giving authorities the power to close down “rogue” websites devoted to exchange of stolen content. [Timothy Lee, Cato at Liberty]

Tags: copyright, YouTube

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Annals of criminalization, part 2,038: “performing” copyrighted material

Walter Olson — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 16:21:46 +0000

The Senate Judiciary Committee has unanimously approved S. 978, a bill that would raise from a misdemeanor to a felony the unauthorized performance or streaming of a copyrighted work when the infringement takes place at least ten times and either reaps $2,500 or more in revenue, or avoids the payment of license fees whose fair market value would exceed $5,000. Mike Masnick at TechDirt thinks the bill could wind up authorizing the jailing of some persons who embed YouTube videos or post videos of themselves lip-synching hit tunes; CopyHype defends the bill and dismisses the concerns as overblown.

Tags: crime and punishment, music and musicians, YouTube

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Texting Fountain Lady considers lawsuit

Walter Olson — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 12:51:03 +0000

After a video went viral showing a distracted shopper walking into a mall fountain, it’s not clear that much of anyone would have known that the blurry figure was Ms. Marrero. They know now, though, as her lawyer talks about holding someone “responsible” for the less-than-professional reaction of security, which included laughing and not going up to her to confirm that she wasn’t hurt. [Mediaite, Balasubramani, Salon, Popehat, MSNBC "Technolog", Mystal]

Tags: Pennsylvania, privacy, YouTube

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Mean-girl YouTube video

Walter Olson — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 15:11:41 +0000

The New York Times tells of a Beverly Hills, Calif. student who

videotaped friends at a cafe, egging them on as they laughed and made mean-spirited, sexual comments about another eighth-grade girl, C. C., calling her “ugly,” “spoiled,” a “brat” and a “slut.” J. C. posted the video on YouTube. The next day, the school suspended her for two days.

Now, before clicking the link, guess who collected the resulting $107,150.80. Right. Ken at Popehat thinks the judge decided the case in favor of the right party, more or less, which doesn’t keep the right party from also being a deplorably wrong party (strong language, invective, etc.)

Tags: attorneys' fees, school discipline, YouTube

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May 10 roundup

Walter Olson — Mon, 10 May 2010 19:42:34 +0000

Failure to warn? “Non-Child Sues For Slide-Related Injury” [Lowering the Bar]
“AG Cuomo Sues Lawyer for Fraud, Says He Sold His Name to Debt Collector for $141K” [ABA Journal]
Ted Frank on his move to the Manhattan Institute and Point of Law [CCAF]
“Viacom is becoming a lawsuit company instead of a TV company” [Doctorow, BoingBoing]
UK: “NHS pays £10,000 to family of psychiatric patient who committed suicide” [Times Online]
American Cancer Society: federal advisory panel’s chemicals-cause-cancer alarms are overblown [NYTimes] More: Taranto, WSJ.
“Who Knew Bankruptcy Paid So Well?” [NYTimes]
Famed sleuth Bloomberg Holmes on the case: was the Pathfinder headed for a vile sodium den? [IowaHawk]

Tags: bankruptcy, debtor-creditor law, environment, failure to warn, Manhattan Institute, salt, suicide, Ted Frank, YouTube

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April 2 roundup

Walter Olson — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 14:07:06 +0000

What? You mean it wasn’t real?
Nothing special at Lowering the Bar for April Fool’s Day since the site’s regular fare was unbelievable enough;
“Steve Cohen’s Wife Was So Excited To Sue Him, She ‘Could Hardly Contain Herself’” [Business Insider]
John Stossel, quoting Cato’s Jerry Taylor, on energy independence and wishful science;
Senior Church of England bishop warns of “victim culture” and “blame society” [Telegraph via Alkon]
Landlord didn’t care for tenant’s display: “Peeps Eviction Trial Postponed” [Lowering the Bar, Legal Blog Watch]
Great mileage, clean reputation, too bad the EPA’s holding up their importation [Coyote]
YouTube, copyright infringement, and the Viacom lawsuit [Manjoo, Slate]

Tags: copyright, divorce, humor, John Stossel, YouTube

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Italy: Google execs convicted of hosting bullying video

Walter Olson — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:08:21 +0000

Apparent theory: YouTube should screen and monitor everything before it goes up. [TechDirt, American Lawyer, Jim Harper/Cato at Liberty, New York Times]

Tags: Google, Italy, YouTube

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“Deposition videos you have to see to believe”

Walter Olson — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:03:24 +0000

You may have seen some of them before, but probably not all six unless you hang out on YouTube a lot. [Erin Geiger Smith and William Wei, Business Insider]

Tags: discovery, YouTube

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“Milan Prosecutors Request Jail Sentence for Google Executives”

Walter Olson — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:24:44 +0000

Bloomberg reports that the trial in Italy is going forward

on charges related to a clip uploaded to Google Video in 2006.

The clip was created and posted on the Web by a group of students at a Turin school, who filmed themselves bullying a disabled classmate. Google says that it removed the video as soon as it was notified and that it helped Italian police identify those responsible. The trial has been closed to the media at Google’s request.

“Seeking to hold neutral platforms liable for content posted on them is a direct attack on a free, open Internet,” Google spokesman William Echikson said in June.

More: AP.

Tags: bullying, Google, Italy, privacy, YouTube

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