Posts Tagged ‘YouTube’
November 1st, 2010
After being blocked for two years YouTube
can now be accessed again by Turkish citizens. The Google-owned site was originally
banned in May 2008 under a 2007 law that allowed courts to block any website where there was “sufficient suspicion” that it had committed a crime. YouTube was accused of hosting videos that insulted the country’s founder, Kemal Ataturk, an offence in Turkey. The minister in charge of internet issues, Binali Yildirim, has said that the offending videos have been removed.
August 16th, 2010
The video-sharing website has wrongly barred Iranians from its documentary experiment, Life in a Day, because of US sanctions. Negar Esfandiary reports
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August 2nd, 2010
A
ruling to ban YouTube and three online libraries in the Russian city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur will be enforced on 3 August. The video-sharing website will be blocked because of a nationalist video “Russia for the Russians,” which has been listed as extremist content. The online libraries (
Lib.rus.ec,
Thelib.ru and
Zhurnal.ru) have been blocked for carrying Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf.
July 29th, 2010
Web users have stepped away from their keyboards and on to the streets in Istanbul. Yaman Akdeniz reports
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July 27th, 2010
The body responsible for interpreting copyright law within the United States
has broadened the exemptions available to video artists seeking to re-use copyrighted material in not-for-profit work. The US Copyright Office’s judgment means that short sections of pre-existing footage can now be legally used in new pieces; for example, online video memes (such as the one based on a segment of footage from the film
Downfall) would now be protected from copyright claims.
June 25th, 2010
A
leaked confidential document reveals that authorities are planning strict measures to control internet content. The guidelines, obtained by
Association for Progressive Communication member,
Bytes for All, propose laws allowing officials to block any online material that it finds “objectionable”. “Objectionable” is not defined, leading critics to argue that the move gives the government “carte blanche” over internet content. The move follows recent
widespread blocking of websites including Facebook and YouTube.
June 25th, 2010
On 23 June,
Viacom’s $1bn lawsuit against
YouTube was
thrown out by a US judge. The entertainment company had raised the claim citing widespread copyright infringement by the Google owned video hosting site. However, in his summary judgment, District Judge Louis Stanton held that Youtube was protected by the “safe provision” in the
Digital Millennium Copyright Act because they had swiftly removed all offending videos when prompted.
June 24th, 2010
The Lahore High Court has ordered that several websites, including Google, Yahoo, Amazon and YouTube should be blocked by the government. The move came after the court found that the sites carried and promoted “blasphemous” material .
Earlier this year, Pakistan blocked Facebook in protest against the “Let’s Draw Mohammed Day” group that appeared on the social networking site.
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