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Entertainment & Sports

Dec. 9, 2010

Two-Front War Declared on Web Videos

Websites like YouTube and Veoh give users around the world the ability to upload and view free content. Copyright holders are waging appeals in two appellate courts to stop that now-common practice.


By Jean-Luc Renault


Daily Journal Staff Writer


Websites like YouTube and Veoh give users around the world the ability to upload and view segments of blockbuster movies, television shows and music videos the same way they might share their amateur footage of baby's first word with family members.


Millions of Internet viewers enjoy this access to content. Copyright holders, not so much.


Now, two landmark cases between content own...

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