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Ever wonder how many YouTube videos vanish from alleged copyright violations? A Massachusetts Institute of Technology research project called YouTomb can show you some.

The site, an effort by the MIT Free Culture group, scans the most popular YouTube videos for the metadata Google inserts after a video has been taken down. YouTomb shows a list of recently removed videos (which you can't actually view), who requested their removal, when they were taken down, and how long they were up beforehand.

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Michael Geist - Prentice's DMCA Deception

Sun, 25 May 2008 05:58:27 -0000

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How will Prentice attempt to sell the Canadian DMCA? Word is that the six months since the initial bill was shelved has yielded some changes, most notably reforms such as the legalization of time shifting (ie. recording television shows with a VCR/PVR) and possibly device shifting (ie. transfer a song from a store bought CD to an iPod).

Neither of these provisions come close to meeting the concerns of the many groups that have spoken out on copyright over the past six months. Moreover, the Prentice Canadian DMCA is still likely to render Canadians infringers where they seek to use these new exceptions in the digital realm. For example, last week there were reports that NBC inserted copy-controls into some of their television programming that rendered Windows Vista Media Center users unable to record television shows. Under the Prentice plan, users that seek to circumvent the digital lock to record the television show (as he will claim they can) will still violate the law. The same is true for copy-controlled CDs - try circumventing the copy-controls to shift the music onto your iPod and you're violating the law even with a device-shifting provision.

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Copyfight: How YouTube's sucking up to Modest Mouse (and other giants of media)

Mon, 19 May 2008 02:33:28 -0000

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An eagle-eyed Valleywag tipster with a taste for Modest Mouse spotted an interesting new feature on YouTube. Uploads of music videos from the band by non-official sources now carry a link reading "Contains content from Sony BMG,"

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Copyright infringement a debatable issue

Thu, 08 May 2008 20:10:13 -0000

Brand, of New Westminster, is waiting to find out whether the federal government is going to expressly permit what is already common practice for millions of consumers in Canada in its much-anticipated copyright law, expected to be tabled at the end of the month.

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