The YouTube Approach to Copyright Infringement

Digital Media Lawyer Blog:  “YouTube has been amassing an impressive list of music industry giants who have agreed to license their content for performance on its site. Recent additions to the fold include Warner Music and the UK Performing Rights Society.  These are simply two more examples of the recent warming trend in the music and video copyright holding community’s attitude toward YouTube.  I recently attended a meeting of the California Copyright Conference which featured a panel appearance by Zahava Levine, YouTube’s knowledgeable and enthusiastic Chief Counsel.”

Class Action Target Sues Law Firm for Defamation

Law.com:  “Soon after filing a class action last spring against the maker of a dietary supplement called Procera AVH, Thomas Clarke Jr., a partner in the San Francisco office of Ropers, Majeski, Kohn & Bentley, uploaded a video on YouTube about the class action and talked to a television reporter for a news story about the litigation.  Now, Brain Research Labs, the defendant in that class action, has sued Clarke and his law firm, as well as the plaintiff named in the complaint, saying their comments on TV and the Internet are defamatory and have hurt the company’s business.  In a Friday hearing on a motion to dismiss the lawsuit, the company’s lawyers painted Clarke as an attorney who’d gone too far.”

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