NY federal court decision threatens embedding and linking across the web
The judge’s decision disregards existing law and if upheld could expose bloggers and publishers to potential copyright lawsuits.
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Google, Getty Images enter a multi-year global licensing partnership
The deal effectively ends Getty’s European antitrust complaint against Google.
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New EU copyright rules: basic fairness or punitive media subsidy?
Europe sees a fairer marketplace, Google sees a bonanza for lawyers.
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European court says linking to illegal content is copyright infringement
The facts of the present case were egregious but the law created by the court is bad for the internet.
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FTC sues 1-800 Contacts over reciprocal, “anti-competitive” PPC bidding agreements
Bidding agreements prevented 1-800 Contacts and its rivals from bidding on each others’ trademarked terms.
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Copyright bully Getty Images complains to EU that Google coerced it into image search
Company says high-res image search results have harmed traffic and revenues.
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Mississippi attorney general’s “conspiracy to censor the internet” back on as appeals court rules against Google
Google had alleged the Motion Picture Association of America was using Mississippi attorney general’s action as a tool of its private interests in content takedowns.
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Brand bidding & PPC optimization: enforcement options (Part 6 of 8)
In part 6 of her multi-part series on brand bidding for paid search, columnist Lori Weiman breaks down the legal issues surrounding trademark infringement in paid search ads.
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Columbia University researchers claim 28% of Google’s URL takedown requests are invalid
Among the questionable DMCA notices, 4.2% of the takedown requests targeted sites that failed to include any copyright infringing content.
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Microsoft & Getty Images Announce Partnership & Drop Infringement Lawsuit Over Bing Images
On Monday, Getty Images dropped their lawsuit against Bing Images and on Tuesday they signed a new partnership deal with Microsoft.
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DMCA Takedown Database ChillingEffects.org Takes Itself Out Of Search Results
The irony here is almost too obvious to mention: an entity dedicated to monitoring the potential “chilling effects” of DMCA takedown notices is censoring itself. Chillingeffects.org has now removed itself from search results, making those notices harder to find. Chillingeffects.org was…
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Google Link Removal Requests Climb To 345 Million In 2014
Torrent Freak study reveals the number of Google’s takedown notices were up 75% from 2013.
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Google “Noticias” On The Homepage Lives On Despite End Of Google News Spain
In the wake of the closure of Google News Spain yesterday “external traffic” had fallen 10 to 15 percent, according to data provided to Mathew Ingram by Chartbeat. However overall traffic at the time of the analysis was relatively stable, suggesting direct navigation. In Germany news…
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Google News Still Available In Spain Despite Closure Deadline
News outlets such as the Wall Street Journal and AP are reporting that Google News España has shut down. However it appears to still be up and available on the site. As Barry Schwartz points out, if you visit news.google.es you’re directed to the following help page. The page offers an…
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Spanish Newspapers Want Government To Force Google To Keep News Open In Spain
A new effort by the Spanish Newspaper Publishers Association (AEDE) to prevent Google from shutting down its News site in Spain is an amazing example of industry chutzpah or hubris. The action shows so much chutzpah in fact that it enters the realm of …
Strict New “Copyright Law” Forces End Of Google News In Spain
Google has decided to shut down Google News in Spain. This drastic step will occur next week and is the result of a recently passed Spanish law that would have compelled Google to pay licensing revenues to Spanish publishers if their content appeared in Google News — even headlines. Some…
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Sweden The Latest To Consider Google “Link Tax” For Newspapers
A member of the Swedish parliament, Niclas Malmberg, wants Google to help fund Swedish news publications along the lines of the French model established last year. Threatened with a “link tax,” Google agreed “to create a €60 million Digital Publishing Innovation Fund to help…
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German Publisher Axel Springer: Loss Of Snippets Caused 80 Percent Traffic Drop
Axel Springer, Germany’s largest publisher and the owner of Europe’s largest newspaper, has said it wants back in to snippets. According to Reuters the German publishing giant revealed that traffic to its four largest online properties from Google search results “had fallen by 40…
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Following Germany’s Lead Spain Passes Misguided “Google Tax” Anti-Piracy Law
Given the saga of Germany’s ill-conceived and poorly implemented “ancillary copyright law” one would have thought that another European government wouldn’t immediately duplicate the mistake. But that’s exactly what’s happened in Spain. Spanish…
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German Publishers To Google: We Want Our Snippets Back
German publishers want their snippets and thumbnails back. A consortium of roughly 200 companies, together known as “VG Media,” have said that the loss of traffic from the disappearance of these elements could cause some of their members “to go bankrupt.” The publishers have been…
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