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29 Oct, 2007 7:48 am
Over a year ago, Robert Tur was the first person to bring suit against Youtube for copyright
infringement. At issue, video coverage Tur shot of the 1992 Los Angeles riots (search Youtube for L.A. riot video). This week at
Tur's bequest, a Los Angeles federal court judge dismissed the suit.a copyright infringement lawsuit against YouTube in [...]
29 Oct, 2007 5:48 am
While everyone knows about Viacom's billion dollar lawsuit against YouTube and it's encore, the class action initiated by the Premier League, it should be remembered that LA cameraman
Robert Tur's lawsuit against the site was filed first and has been chugging along and is likely to be
decided first. Well, at least until last week when Tur got his lawsuit voluntarily dismissed so he can join the
8 Aug, 2007 9:26 am
by Tamera H. Bennett August 8, 2007 Robert Tur, the cameraman and copyright owner that filed the
first lawsuit against YouTube for copyright infringement, will dismiss his case in California against YouTube and join forces with the Football Association Primer League and the Bourne
Company to battle YouTube in district court in New York. Additional plaintiffs to join the class action include the National Music Publisher's Association, Finnish Football ...
7 May, 2007 5:20 am
In the District Court in LA, Viacom and NBC have asked for permission to file amicus briefs for Robert Tur, the video journalist suing YouTube over footage from the Rodney King riots. ZDNet thinks it a sign that NBC may be readying its own suit against YouTube,
though NBC's ambiguous relationship with YouTube suggests that the network may just wait out the legal storm. After all, there are
13 Nov, 2007 9:05 pm
... ' summary judgments were ultimately denied, but the case was never litigated to completion. Tur voluntarily dismissed the case in the fall
of 2007 in order to join the Premier League class action ... , X-Ray Dog Music, Knockout Entertainment Ltd., Seminole Warriors Boxing, videographer Robert Tur, and author Daniel Quinn. Along with the Viacom case, this is the one to watch. ... Ad Revenues, The
Daily Mail, Oct. 10, 2006, [www.dailymail.co.uk]. 5 Robert Tur v. YouTube, Inc., No. CV 06-4436-GAF
(FMoX) ( ...
28 Aug, 2007 8:51 am
... the Central District of California denied its Partial Motion for Summary Judgment against Plaintiff Robert Tur. Robert Tur is a helicopter pilot and photojournalist who does
business under the name Los Angeles news Service. Tur owns the copyrights to and sells a variety of news video to television stations, cable
channels, ... of the 1992 Los Angeles riots and the beating of truck driver Reginald Denny. Tur sued YouTube for copyright infringement under
17 U.S.C. § 501 and unfair ...
21 May, 2007 10:34 pm
... the company to provide nearly unlimited upstream patent licenses. Read more here (from Ars Technica). Viacom has been denied the request for a friend-of-the-court brief in
Robert Tur's case against by YouTube, but NBC is being allowed to file an amicus brief in support of
Tur. Read more here (from Mashable). Computer dealers in India are protesting Microsoft's attempts to stop the use of pirated software. Read
more here (from PC ...
25 Jun, 2007 12:07 pm
... time for intermediary lawyers... Anyway just a note that people seem to think that Google has won the first round, not against Viacom itself but in Tur v YouTube, an earlier launched case. Robert Tur is the photojournalist
who sued YouTube in July when his videos of the L.A. riots ... or so, I'm rather keen to see this one fully explored myself; can't wait in fact. Tur's claim can be found here, As I myself have previously discussed, his claim rests on the claim that ...
16 Sep, 2006 3:07 pm
... copyright infringements. Watch what he has to say on YouTube with this informative video entitled: Youtube Sued! Will Copyright Kill The Video Star? Related/Updated: Here's
YouTube's answer to the copyright lawsuit filed by Robert Tur, a Los Angeles pilot and journalist.
Tur alleged that his copyright-protected video footage of truck driver Reginald Denny's beating in the city's 1992 race riots was uploaded and
viewed on YouTube in ...
19 Nov, 2006 1:11 pm
... that distributed software for digital music sharing and has since shut down. A lawsuit filed in July against YouTube by Robert
Tur, a journalist who filmed the beating of trucker Reginald Denny during the Los Angeles riots in 1992, offers a taste of what may be in store
for the Web site. In the filings in federal court in Los Angeles, Tur accused YouTube of encouraging copyright infringement and failing to
remove several of his videos, resulting in him losing licensing ...
14 Mar, 2007 11:14 am
... infringement can be held liable - but nobody, not even Viacom, has suggested that YouTube's executives have been as brazen as the founders of file-swapping companies years ago.
Robert Tur's lawyer Francis Puzzilli (on the DMCA defense in Tur v. YouTube): They hold it. They store it. They enable it to be categorized. There are service providers - utility companies, so to speak - and there are
content providers. And I would ...
26 Jun, 2007 3:52 pm
Viacom's lawsuit against YouTube has gotten quite a bit of attention, but it wasn't the first case of its kind filed. Almost a year ago, helicopter pilot and journalist Robert Tur sued YouTube for infringement of some well-known video he shot during the Rodney King Riots. Both ... as
to "the process undertaken by YouTube from the time a user submits a video clip to the point of display on the YouTube website." Tur v.
YouTube, Inc., No. 06-4436, (C.D.Cal. June 20, 2007)
6 Aug, 2007 7:27 pm
Newsman Robert Tur dropped his copyright infringement action against YouTube so that he could join
the proposed class action suit. Tur sued Google originally over his news footage of the Los Angeles Riots from the early 1990s. It makes
sense...
17 Sep, 2008 8:08 am
Los Angeles, CA - Copyright attorneys for HighDefinition.net, Inc. ("HDNI"), owned by award-winning broadcast reporter Robert Tur, filed a copyright infringement and breach of contract lawsuit, at the Los Angeles Federal District Court, which seeks to enjoin further usage of its
footage. The complaint states that Mr. Tur pioneered the use of helicopters in covering live news events, which, at least in Los Angeles,
provides for at least one car chase ...
10 Aug, 2007 3:19 am
... station in the same market. The Interception of Communications Act was signed into law by Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe on 3 August,
enabling the government to intercept phone calls, e-mails and faxes with the ... "), the largest music publishing association in the U.S. with over 600 members; renowned investigative
journalist Robert Tur; the U.K.'s Rugby Football League; the Finnish Football League Association;
XRay Dog Music, composers and producers of high-end music for popular movie and TV ...
24 Oct, 2006 1:02 pm
... body of legal interpretation in its favor. Along with YouTube's 34 million viewers, Google will inherit a lawsuit filed last summer against the company. Robert Tur, who owns a video from the 1992 riots in Los Angeles that shows a trucker being beaten by rioters, is
suing YouTube, accusing it of copyright infringement. Hmm, I wonder what it's going to look like. The court decisions will certainly revolutionarize copyright laws.
13 Dec, 2006 12:14 pm
... your legal rights." YouTube is no stranger to allegations of copyright infringement; numerous clips have been removed from the site over the past couple of months in response to
notices of infringement sent by copyright holders. Earlier this year YouTube was sued by Robert Tur,
a Los Angeles journalist, for copyright infringement of his video footage of the 1992 Los Angeles riots that subsequently found its way onto YouTube. And in ...
6 May, 2007 3:32 pm
NBC Universal and Viacom are supporting a copyright lawsuit against YouTube by Robert Tur, who sued
YouTube last July after it showed his footage of the 1992 Los Angeles riots. Read more here (from SmartMoney.com). The English Premier League is to sue video-sharing site YouTube for
alleged copyright infringement. The football organisation said YouTube had "knowingly misappropriated" its intellectual property by ...
25 Jun, 2007 2:17 pm
... shielded from liability by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The order issued Thursday by US District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper in Los Angeles sets up a potential discovery
battle between Google-YouTube and Robert Tur, the photojournalist who sued in July when his videos of
the LA riots and O.J. Simpson's slow-speed chase appeared on the video-sharing Web site. Read more here (from Hollywood Reporter, Esq). People who bank ...
18 Jul, 2007 3:45 pm
Could Apple be held liable for infringing material on YouTube that is displayed through the YouTube viewing application on the iPhone? News.com: Could YouTube drag Apple into copyright
fight? : "[Robert Tur is] irked at Apple now because the new iPhone has a feature that allows users
to view YouTube videos." How is Apple's liability for infringing videos on YouTube viewed on the iPhone any ...
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