Privately, several senior media executives said technology companies wanted to devalue copyrighted media content because it ultimately benefited the technology companies' business.
The takedowns usually come as a result of takedown requests from people acting on behalf of rights holders, asking for the site's to be removed because they are sharing copyrighted media.
But either way, the decision weakens the spirit of the law surrounding "fair use," which says that copyrighted media can be reproduced without permission for the purposes of criticism, news reporting, or scholarship.
Copyright law needs to take account of the fact that software programs are fundamentally different from other copyrighted media.
The chapter summarizes that it is not only copyrighted media that is impacted by debates and advances over DRM.
The Real case will likely go further, testing the degree to which users can duplicate copyrighted media for personal use, even when the same program can be used with illegal intent.
This is really for Getty to get more embedded into the world of social media and user-generated content a la Tumblr and sites like it that have become popular havens for people freely repurposing copyrighted media.
The photo was part of a copyrighted media kit created to promote the film, and clearly showed their faces.
The best Web-based art genres — memes, mash-ups, play-alongs, even supercuts — all repurpose copyrighted media in unintended and sometimes brilliant ways.
An eventual successor to Napster, LimeWire allowed people to trade files -- including copyrighted media like music albums -- for free over the Internet.
