A court in Hamburg, Germany, refused to order YouTube to take down 75 music videos said to infringe copyright, the Associated Press reported Friday. ASCAP and seven other royalty-collecting organizations that have failed to reach licensing agreements with YouTube asked the court to issue a preliminary injunction, AP said. The judge declined, saying that while the plaintiffs may have a right to ask the video-sharing site to remove the videos, there’s no need to use an emergency procedure, because the songs have been long been available, Bloomberg reported.
An overview of a number of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to CBP's Web site, along with the case number(s), period covered, and CBP message number, is provided below. (Note that the complete message is only available at http://addcvd.cbp.gov.)
ST. GEORGES, Del. -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., is circulating a cybersecurity proposal among Senate committees of jurisdiction that combines bills proposed by Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., and Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., said Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., Thursday. But the process is secretive and shutting out private industry, says a leading lobbyist, making him “very nervous."
DivX reached a tentative settlement of a shareholder suit, clearing one hurdle to its proposed $323 million sale to Sonic Solutions, Sonic said Thursday in documents filed with the SEC. The suit, filed by the Shareholder Foundation in California Superior Court, San Diego, accused DivX’s board of breaching its fiduciary duty in trying to sell the company at an “unfair price.” The shareholder group filed a motion Aug. 20 seeking a preliminary injunction blocking the sale and a hearing was scheduled for Sept. 3, Sonic said. Terms of the proposed settlement weren’t released. There was no comment from DivX or Shareholder Foundation officials.
ST. GEORGES, Del. -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., is circulating a cybersecurity proposal among Senate committees of jurisdiction that combines bills proposed by Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., and Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., said Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., Thursday. But the process is secretive and shutting out private industry, says a leading lobbyist, making him “very nervous."
Commerce Secretary Locke has announced 14 proposed changes to antidumping and countervailing duty practices, which are focused on non-market economies (including China), in support of the President’s National Export Initiative (NEI).
Chimei Innolux is stepping up its legal battle with Sony, accusing the CE manufacturer of “widespread infringement” of display-related patents. The infringement extends through Sony’s Bravia TV line and beyond to its PlayStation 3 videogames console, Chi Mei said in a complaint in U.S. District Court in Wilmington, Del. Chimei said it also lodged a complaint with the International Trade Commission seeking to bar importation to the U.S. of Sony products infringing its patents, the company said. Sony officials weren’t available to comment. Chimei filed a separate case against Sony in U.S. District Court, Fayetteville, Ark., alleging that its LCD TVs, digital cameras and digital photo frames infringe another set of patents.
Questions about what kinds of pay-TV distributors are entitled to use the FCC program access rules to seek carriage of vertically integrated-programming are better answered in a separate rulemaking, rather than in the context of a condition to approval of the Comcast-NBCU merger, Time Warner Cable argued in its reply comments in the merger review. Such a rulemaking could also answer questions about online distributors’ duties to provide closed-captioning and the emergency alert system, it said. “To the extent these issues need to be addressed, the full range of OTT [over-the-top] providers’ regulatory responsibilities should be considered in a proceeding of industry-wide scope, instead of adopting a standalone condition that would purport to give online entities rights under the program access rules,” it said.
Questions about what kinds of pay-TV distributors are entitled to use the FCC program access rules to seek carriage of vertically integrated-programming are better answered in a separate rulemaking, rather than in the context of a condition to approval of the Comcast-NBCU merger, Time Warner Cable argued in its reply comments in the merger review. Such a rulemaking could also answer questions about online distributors’ duties to provide closed-captioning and the emergency alert system, it said. “To the extent these issues need to be addressed, the full range of OTT [over-the-top] providers’ regulatory responsibilities should be considered in a proceeding of industry-wide scope, instead of adopting a standalone condition that would purport to give online entities rights under the program access rules,” it said.
An overview of a number of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to CBP's Web site, along with the case number(s), period covered, and CBP message number, is provided below. (Note that the complete message is only available at http://addcvd.cbp.gov.)