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From Safe Harbor To Choppy Waters: Youtube, The Digital Millennium Copyright Act,And A Much Needed Change Of Course, Lauren B. Patten
From Safe Harbor To Choppy Waters: Youtube, The Digital Millennium Copyright Act,And A Much Needed Change Of Course, Lauren B. Patten
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
YouTube.com, named Time magazine's "Invention of the Year" for 2006 and widely recognized as the most-visited video site on the Internet, has changed the face of online entertainment. With the site's acquisition by Google in October 2006, the possibilities for YouTube's growth became truly endless. However, there is a darker side to the story of the Internet sensation, one that is grounded in its potential liability for copyright infringement. The issue is that many of the most-viewed and most-popular videos on the site are copyrighted. The copyright owners of those popular clips want their works back and are suing YouTube …