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On Friday, the Hamburg State Court ruled that Google, YouTube’s corporate parent, will need to prevent users from posting copyrighted material without express consent. The suit was filed two years ago by GEMA, the German royalty agency, and other music rights groups, who alleged that the video-sharing site had infringed on the copyright of seven particular pieces of music.
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Today, a regional court in Germany ruled that Google is violating German copyright law by displaying thumbnail previews of copyrighted images. German photographer Michael Bernhard and cartoonist Thomas Horn had sued Google and deman... Read Post

Filed under: Internet, Video, Google, web 2.0 YouTube has been linking copyrighted videos uploaded by third parties to their respective content owners. This occurred with a Modest Mouse video, which YouTube linked to the official Mo... Read Post

Rapidshare has been fined $34m and ordered by a German court to proactively seek out copyright infringement on its servers. German royalty collectors GEMA filed suit againist Rapidshare requesting that 5,000 tracks managed by GEMA b... Read Post