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Viacom sues YouTube for copyright infringement

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 16 2007

In a high-profile case that could test the limits of the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA), media giant Viacom filed suit against YouTube and its parent company, Google, seeking $1 billion in damages for the posting of hundreds of thousands of Viacom video clips on the popular YouTube website

Settlement Google news case

  • Venable LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 29 2007

A highly publicized case that has been going on for the last two years in which the large international service, Agence France-Presse, sued Google Inc. claiming Google, through Google News, infringed on its copyrights was settled last week

Court rejects stay of webcaster royalty rate hike

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 20 2007

The Internet radio industry lost its bid to halt steep increases in royalty fees approved earlier this year by the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB), as the DC Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the webcasters’ request for stay of the CRB order that went into effect on Sunday

Viacom barred from seeking punitive damages in YouTube infringement case

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 14 2008

Viacom was dealt a setback in its ongoing copyright infringement case against Google’s YouTube unit, as a federal district judge ruled against Viacom’s request to add a claim for punitive damages

Warner Bros Entertainment, Inc and Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp v Ideal World Direct et al

  • Loeb & Loeb LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 3 2007

Movie studios filed a copyright infringement suit against several web site operators who made pirating software and technical support available to users

Reinhardt v Wal-Mart Stores, Inc, et al

  • Loeb & Loeb LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 30 2008

The federal district court for the Southern District of New York dismissed a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by Richard “Richie Ramone” Reinhardt, former member of the band the Ramones, against Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Apple Inc., and Real Networks Inc. and others involved in the exploitation of songs authored by members of the Ramones over digital downloads of six songs he allegedly authored while a member of the Ramones

Atlantic Recording Corporation, et al. v. Howell

  • Loeb & Loeb LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 7 2008

The federal district court in Arizona denied the plaintiff record companies’ motion for summary judgment in this peer-to-peer file sharing copyright infringement case on several grounds

Veoh Networks, Inc v UMG Recordings, Inc, et al

  • Loeb & Loeb LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 21 2007

The district court granted defendant record companies’ motion to dismiss video-hosting website Veoh’s declaratory relief action for lack of a “case or controversy” and based on its discretion to decline jurisdiction under the Declaratory Judgment Act

United States v. American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, et al.

  • Loeb & Loeb LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 14 2008

This 150-page decision is the culmination of a 13-day hearing conducted by the district court, in its capacity as the “rate court” pursuant to judicial decree, to determine reasonable fees for blanket licenses for the public performance of ASCAP-repertory music by AOL, RealNetworks and Yahoo! (the “Applicants”), three internet service providers who applied to ASCAP for such licenses but were unable to reach agreement on such fees

Warner Bros Entertainment Inc, et al v Ideal World Direct, et al

  • Loeb & Loeb LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 5 2007

Movie studios brought copyright and trademark infringement suit against several web sites that provided access to pirating software

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