OPINION: By the numbers

OCT. 5 | THE INSTITUTE for Policy Innovation, a Texas-based pro-business think tank, released a report this week that estimates total losses to piracy for four “core” U.S. copyright industries at $58 billion per year. Those losses cost American workers 373,375 jobs and $16.

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OPINION: Copy right

The DVD Copy Control Assn. sued Kaleidescape in 2004, accusing the Mountain View, Calif.-based maker of high-end home media servers of violating the CSS license governing the design of DVD drives.

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OPINION: Irritant or more?

AUG. 3 | WASHINGTON—THE UNSKIPPABLE copyright warning at the beginning of DVDs is one of life’s perennial, if minor, irritants, like listening to the twice annual lecture from your dentist about flossing more often. You just have to put up with it.

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Kazaa settles copyright lawsuits

On Thursday, the studio’s and record companies’ long legal pursuit of peer-to-peer service Kazaa, which had fled Western Europe for that tiny Pacific island nation four years ago, finally came to an end in an out-of-court settlement.

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YouTube "Kings" speak

YouTube's founders took to news of their $1.65 billion acquisition directly to their users in this video were they brashly call it a joining of "two kings.

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OPINION: Viacom v. Google brings back Grokster case

Viacom Inc.’s $1 billion lawsuit against YouTube and its parent company Google picks up where the Grokster case left off.

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Public domain downloads

Wired pulls together a list of the top public domain movies that are widely available for download in its October issue. Among the those available are Night of the Living Dead, 1940s Superman cartoons and Reefer Madness.

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OPINION: Many sides of copying

The lawsuit of the DVD Copy Control Assn., the licensing entity that oversees the Content Scrambling System used to prevent copying of DVDs, against Kaleidescape Systems, a maker of home media servers, isn’t really about protecting content.

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Warner talks copyright with GooTube

" Here's a clip that shows the referential ease that could be lost if companies keep their clips off the YouTube (admittedly it's from Comedy Central, not Warner)... sure, you could watch this on TV or TiVo or buy the episode off of iTunes.

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Viacom files lawsuit against YouTube, Google

MARCH 13 | Viacom Inc. announced Tuesday morning that it has sued video-sharing site YouTube and its parent company Google Inc. in U.S. District Court in New York. The suit charges YouTube and Google with “massive intentional copyright infringement” and seeks $1 billion in damages.

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