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Introduction
What is Internet Television? Four Stakeholders
Sites that host Sites that link Copyright holders Individual Viewer
Solving the Problem
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What is Internet Television?
U.S.A. - 57 per cent of online adults have watched or downloaded video and 19 per cent do this daily
Sweden - 24 per cent of sixteen to thirty year olds chose to download episodes of popular television shows rather than watch them on television
U.C.C. - 23.5 per cent use Youtube very often
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Sites that Host
Definition Examples: Youtube, Veoh Issue Youtube v. Viacom (safe harbour
provisions of the DMCA)
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Sites that Link
Definition Examples: tv-links.cc,
quicksilverscreen.com Issue Facilitation of © infringement
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Copyright Holders
Examples: NBC (U.S.A.), Channel 4 (U.K.), RTE (Ireland)
Issue Lobbying N. Netanel, “Why has Copyright Expanded?
Analysis and Critique” NEW DIRECTIONS IN COPYRIGHT LAW, Vol. 6, Fiona Macmillan, ed., Edward Elgar, 2008
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Individual Viewer
Issues Transient/Incidental copying
U.S.A. v E.U. User generated content
Youtube’s Terms and Conditions
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Solving the Problem
Traditionally Increase the amount of laws DRM’s
Alternatively Copyleft/Creative Commons
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Conclusion
The relentless march of intellectual property rights needs to be stopped and questioned. UNDP, United Nations Development Program, "Human Development Report 1999", Oxford University Press, 1999. http://www.undp.org/hdro/index2.html