{"id":3707,"date":"2006-10-17T19:16:56","date_gmt":"2006-10-17T23:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2006\/10\/17\/universal-sues-video-sharing-sites-g"},"modified":"2006-10-17T19:16:56","modified_gmt":"2006-10-17T23:16:56","slug":"universal-sues-video-sharing-sites-grouper-and-boltcom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2006\/10\/17\/universal-sues-video-sharing-sites-grouper-and-boltcom\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal Sues Video Sharing Sites Grouper and Bolt.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a2655'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today, Universal Music Group <A href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Universal+Music+sues+two+video-sharing+sites\/2100-1030_3-6126697.html?tag=sas.email\">sued <\/A>Grouper and Bolt.com for hosting copyrighted music videos uploaded by individual users. According to Reuters, Universal &#8220;made clear that &#8230; [it] retain[ed] the right to add&#8221; to the lawsuit Sony Pictures, which recently bought Grouper.<br \/>\n<P>And thus the record industry lawsuits roll on, even as <A href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/archives\/004949.php\">they cut deals<\/A> with YouTube. To learn more about the protections that copyright law might offer these video sharing sites, <A href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporteresq.com\/thresq\/spotlight\/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002802746\">check out this recent article<\/A> by EFF&#8217;s Fred von Lohmann.<br \/>\n<P><A href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/archives\/004958.php\">(Cross-posted at Deep Links)<\/A><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Universal Music Group sued Grouper and Bolt.com for hosting copyrighted music videos uploaded by individual users. According to Reuters, Universal &#8220;made clear that &#8230; [it] retain[ed] the right to add&#8221; to the lawsuit Sony Pictures, which recently bought Grouper. And thus the record industry lawsuits roll on, even as they cut deals with YouTube. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-ideas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}