LOS ANGELES -- YouTube announced Wednesday that it has shelled out a total of $2 billion to more than 8,000 rights holders through its ContentID program. Content ID, launched in 2007, was designed to ...

Australian copyright holders are taking advantage of the recently amended piracy site-block laws, under the Copyright Amendment (Online Infringement) Bill 2018, to ...

Illegal, synthetically narrated copies of “The Hunger Games,” hit self-help books and everything in between are increasingly ...

Let me introduce you to a man named Mitchell Block. For more than 40 years, Block has run a film production and distribution company called Direct Cinema Limited, which specializes in independent ...

It’s easy enough for a user to record a video and upload it to YouTube. It’s even easier for that user to use a song that may be under copyright in that video. Say for instance, you upload a video and ...

NBC Universal has thrown in with Viacom in a filing related to a piracy lawsuit against Google and YouTube. The case was actually brought by a separate party, Los Angeles News Service operator Robert ...

Viacom filed suit against YouTube last year, alleging that YouTube wasn't taking sufficient measures to ensure that copyrighted material wasn't being freely distributed by the YouTube community.

Anyone with hit with a copyright claim on YouTube can probably tell you about the complicated, confusing, and drawn out hassle that comes with them. Thankfully, the platform is releasing a tool to ...

Don’t berate them, join them. That seems to be the growing consensus for media companies faced with having their copyrighted material posted illegally to YouTube, according to this story in the New ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The media industry is clashing with YouTube over its proposal to offer anti-piracy tools only to companies that have distribution deals with the top online video-sharing service, ...