Hollywood mogul Avi Lerner called President Barack Obama a ‘coward’ for not being able to crack down on search engine giant Google over piracy. Lerner said, “It’s a major problem and it’s something that I don’t know if anyone can stop, because the government, the president, Congress are all scared of Google.” Read more
Google gets 2 million takedown requests daily (& many more in the future)
Copyright holders are closely keeping an eye on pirate links in Google’s search results. They have even reached 100,000 reported URLs every hour. In recent years, they would target links to alleged copyright infringing material and overloaded Google with DMCA takedown notices. Read more
Google wins against anti-Muslim film copyright case
Google Inc. beats Cindy Lee Garcia’s bid to block her appearance in “Innocence of Muslims,” an anti-Muslim film. US Circuit Judge M. Margaret McKeown wrote for the majority, “Garcia’s theory can be likened to ‘copyright cherry-picking,’ which would enable any contributor from a costume designer down to an extra or best boy to claim copyright in random bits and pieces of a unitary motion picture”. Read more
Big companies including Google and Microsoft sign anti-piracy agreement
Denmark’s Ministry of Culture‘s Memorandum of Understanding has five key objectives which the signed companies must abide to.
1. To help make the Internet a safe and legal platform for consumers and businesses. Read more
Google rejects Australia’s legislation on piracy site-blocking
The land Down Under has been the center of controversy surrounding copyright violation and online piracy in recent months. Read more