By Krista on Aug 13, 2006 in Legal, Web 2.0, YouTube | 0 Comments
I wrote previously about the lawsuit YouTube faces for showing copyrighted video clips of Robert Tur’s 1992 LA riot footage. This week’s BusinessWeek (Aug 7, 2006) addresses the revenue generating concerns.
As I mentioned previously, most lawyers seem to agree that YouTube is protected by copyright law as long as it responds to the copyright owners’ requests to remove their content. A side question seems to be whether it’s ok to run advertising beside the videos. Read the rest
By Krista on Aug 1, 2006 in Social Media, Trends, Web 2.0 | 1 Comment
Tonight, Stephen Colbert discussed how Wikipedia is influencing culture on his show. After saying something to the effect of
I love Wikipedia: any site that has a longer entry on truthiness than on Lutherans has its priorities straight.
He then went on to make a point that Wikipedia reports “facts” as a collection of ideas that a group of people agree with. Read the rest
By Krista on Jul 19, 2006 in Legal, Social Media, Web 2.0, YouTube | 1 Comment
The Los Angeles News Service and its owner Robert Tur have sued YouTube for posting copyrighted footage on their website. Specifically, someone posted a video of the beating of trucker Reginald Denny during the 1992 LA riots.
Tur, who apparently has a reputation as “an active litigant”, is asking for $150,000 for each infringement (it was viewed 1000 times) - or $150 million in damages! He decided to sue YouTube rather than the person that upload because Read the rest
By Krista on Jul 8, 2006 in Spam | 0 Comments
According to CipherTrust, who provides businesses with spam filters and runs the SpamArchive.org site, people still are clicking on spam. The New York Times reports their findings that spam promoting pornography is 280 times more effective in getting recipients to click on them as pharmacy spam - messages advertising drugs. Rolex watch spam comes in third.
“Successful spam is about impulse purchases,” said Francis deSouza, a vice president at Symantec, which makes antivirus software. “Things like home mortgages have a lower success rate than things you’d buy on impulse. Things like Viagra, porn.”
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By Krista on Jul 3, 2006 in Identity Theft, Security, Spam | 1 Comment
If you watch tv on any regular basis, you’ve probably seen one of the humorous Citibank commercials that portray various people talking with voices that are quite obviously not their own (like two older women talking with biker voices) describing all the various purchases they’ve just made with credit cards that aren’t their own.
Identity theft is becoming a huge concern. According to David McIntyre, CEO of TriWest, 53 million identities have been stolen to date and 19,000 more are stolen every day. Companies on average spend 1600 work hours per incident at a cost of $40,000 to $92,000 per victim. (Source: CIO Magazine, 5/15/06) Read the rest
