Volume 10 - Number 5 | May 2012
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Second Circuit Revives Copyright Case Against Google, YouTube
By Nate Raymond and Mark Hamblett
Viacom International got a second shot at proving that Google’s YouTube massively infringed its copyrights by hosting clips from shows like The Daily Show and Family Guy without its permission. And whether Viacom and its lawyers succeed or not, they’ve already managed to shape the developing case law over copyrighted content that users illegally upload to the Internet.
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Courts in Australia And the U.S. Address Google’s AdWords Program
By Catherine Malia Ting
Appellate courts in both the United States and Australia recently addressed whether Google, Inc. violated the country’s respective trademark laws through the use of third-party trademarks as keywords in Google’s AdWords advertising program. Google suffered legal losses in both countries.
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ICANN and Pornographers: Comrades in Arms?
By Douglas Wood
According to the press reports, the Florida-based company that bought the .xxx domain last year and reaped millions in registration fees from companies, universities, organizations and individuals seeking to protect their trademarks and names from being associated with pornography (with no intent of ever using the sites) has applied to own three more — sex, .porn and .adult.
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