Who's Suing YouTube?

 

    Welcome, welcome. This is the homepage for the group project by Adrian, Jeff and Mouse.  For our project, we focused on some of the legal battles the video sharing site YouTube.com has been in because of their entanglement with copyright laws. Below is a profile of the site, as well as links to its various sections, which focus on some specific examples of YouTube's lawsuits, the copyright laws that come into play as well as how YouTube is affected by them, and Larry Lessig's point of view on the issue. Enjoy.


A quick profile of youtube... 

YOUTUBE.COM: OWNED BY GOOGLE

FOUNDED: FEBRUARY 15, 2005

HEADQUARTERS: SAN BRUNO, CA

KEY PEOPLE: STEVE CHEN: FOUNDER & CTO

                    CHAD HURLEY: FOUNDER & CEO

                    JAWED KARIM: FOUNDER & ADVISER

SLOGAN: BROADCAST YOURSELF

 

Project Contents: 

Digital Millennium Copyright Act

YouTube, on copyright laws

Current lawsuits against YouTube

Lessig's views and thoughts on copyrights

Free Culture

Youtube videos having to do with copyright