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HDNet Founder Mark Cuban and Google Spar Over Copyright at FCC Hearing

By William G. Korver, Reporter, BroadbandCensus.com July 21 – The founder of a high-definition cable television channel and a top content official with Google sparred at an FCC field hearing on Monday...

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Biden, Top Officials and Executives To Discuss Intellectual Property

WASHINGTON, December 14, 2009 – Vice President Joe Biden is scheduled to hold a roundtable discussion Tuesday on the Obama Administration’s commitment to enforcing laws against intellectual property...

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Don’t Turn YouTube Into The Boob-Tube, Plead Its Users

SAN FRANCISCO, June 1, 2010 – A group of individuals who have successfully used YouTube to gain prominence in their fields on Friday jumped into the legal fight between media giants Viacom and Google...

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YouTube Prevails Against Viacom in Billion Dollar Lawsuit

SAN FRANCISCO, June 23, 2010 — YouTube scored a major victory in a bitterly-fought, billion dollar copyright infringement lawsuit Wednesday brought by media giant Viacom when a federal district court...

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Silicon Valley Fears Big Liabilities In Small Print of Proposed Trade Agreement

SAN FRANCISCO, July 1, 2010 –The office of the United States Trade Representative said Thursday that its negotiators had “made progress in building consensus,” over specific provisions in a...

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Justice Dept Could Shutter Infringing Web Sites With Court Orders Against...

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 21, 2010 — A bipartisan group of 10 US senators on Monday introduced legislation that would enable the US Justice Department to render inaccessible Web sites judged to be dedicated...

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Viacom Hires Theodore Olsen To Appeal YouTube Decision

Viacom has hired former Solicitor General Theodore Olson to appeal an unfavorable outcome in a billion dollar copyright infringement lawsuit that came down this June, according to the Hollywood...

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Viacom: YouTube Doesn’t Qualify For the DMCA’s Safe Harbor

Google’s YouTube isn’t eligible for the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s safe harbor provisions because its founders deliberately built the business on pirated content, according to media behemoth...

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Movie and Newspaper Associations, Software Makers Support Viacom’s Appeal of...

A Clinton administration architect of a digital age copyright law, a former solicitor general for the United States, and an army of content industry associations on Friday sided with Viacom in its...

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Time Warner Cable and Viacom Take iPad Dispute To Court

Time Warner Cable’s dispute with Viacom over the question of whether the cable company is allowed to stream certain television channels onto its customers’ iPads within the confines of their own homes...

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Former RIAA Lawyer Verrilli Confirmed as Solicitor General

WASHINGTON June 8, 2011 – The Senate Committee on the Judiciary confirmed Donald Verrilli, Jr. as Solicitor General on Monday. Before being nominated for the post Verrilli worked as one of Viacom’s...

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Broadband Roundup: FTC Against Public Utility Broadband Regulation, Holder...

WASHINGTON, October 2, 2014 ­- Federal Trade Commissioner Maureen Ohlhausen warned that reclassifying broadband under public utility regulation including in Title II of the Communications Act would put...

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