The Perils of YouTube Filtering: Part 1

by: Tony Bates, Associate Editor, MTTLRThe growing emergence of “Web 2.0”1 has caused an explosion in the amount of user-generated content that appears on the Internet.2 YouTube.com has revolutionized the way we watch some of this content online, by allowing users to...

Copyright Reform Part 2

by: Professor Jessica LitmanProfessor of Law, University of Michigan Law SchoolIn part 1, I explained some of the appeal of seeking to begin a copyright reform process by agreeing on a set of copyright principles to guide lawmakers in their drafting. In the intensely...

Copyright Reform Part 1

by: Professor Jessica LitmanProfessor of Law, University of Michigan Law SchoolIf you hang out among copyright lawyers, you’ll notice widespread agreement that the current copyright statute, enacted more than 30 years ago in 1976 and amended piecemeal in the years...

YouTube’s Apology

by: Oscar A. Lara, Associate Editor, MTTLRGoogle and YouTube are currently facing a class action lawsuit for copyright infringement. Among the parties claiming infringement are the Football Association Premier League, England’s most popular soccer league, and Viacom,...