District Court Compels Disclosure of YouTube User Logging Records, Protects Source Code By Jay Gill — Edited by Sarah Sorscher Viacom International, Inc. v. YouTube, Inc. S.D.N.Y., July 1, 2008, No. 07 Civ. 2103 Order (Provided by Justia) The District Court for the Southern District of New York partially granted a discovery motion made by Viacom in its copyright suit against YouTube and YouTube’s parent company Google. The order compels Google to produce the contents of YouTube’s logging database, including ... Read More...

Eleventh Circuit Applies Copyright Act’s Collective Works Provision to CD-ROM Collection By Dmitriy Tishyevich — Edited by Andrew Ungberg Greenberg v. National Geographic Society 11th Circuit, June 30, 2008, No. 05-16964 Slip Opinion On June 30, the Eleventh Circuit issued a divided en banc opinion, affirming by a 7-5 vote the panel decision in Greenberg II, which had vacated Greenberg I. Writing for the majority, Judge Barkett held that National Geographic was privileged to reproduce its print issues. Section 201(c) ... Read More...

ICANN Opens Up Available Top Level Domains By Joshua Gruenspecht — Edited by Andrew Ungberg June 26, 2008 ICANN press release The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”), the international organization in charge of allocating resources and establishing protocols on the Internet, last week removed the existing limits on internet generic top-level domains (“gTLD”s) and announced plans to accept applications from operators for new namespaces. Initially, the earliest domain names fell into a few select functionally classified categories, ... Read More...