Comments on: Facebook’s copyright quagmire?

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 01:21:41 +0000

I couldn’t understand some parts of this article s copyright quagmire?, but I guess I just need to check some more resources regarding this, because it sounds interesting.

By: VentureBeat » Maestro streams — straight into legal question

VentureBeat » Maestro streams — straight into legal question — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 23:40:18 +0000

[...] is particularly relevant, since Maestro is developing an application for Facebook, a company in the midst of grappling with major copyright questions as it [...]

By: Facebook Stops The Music! Audio Application For Copyright Violation at FaceReviews.com :: Facebook Application Reviews, Facebook Widgets and Facebook News. Sharing the Facebook Blog love.

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 23:20:00 +0000

[...] This is actually a really smart move on the part of facebook. It shows that they take copyright violation seriously. This also eliminates them from any messy legal issues from the music industry. For all you developers that read this blog, let this be a lesson to you. Stay on the right side of legal issues or risk having the carpet pulled out from under you. Develop gray area applications at your own risk. Facebook also recently undated their developers terms and conditions (TOC) documents and this change put Audio clearly in violation. Venture beat has some interesting insights regarding Facebook and copyrights that you can read here. [...]

By: Oops Facebook and piracy | TechWag

Oops Facebook and piracy | TechWag — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 23:58:07 +0000

[...] The new open platform from Facebook as opened up a number of legal issues that has drawn the baleful eye of RIAA and other anti-piracy groups. The center of the controversy is a user supplied index of songs using the Audio service that was written by someone else using the Facebook API. Of course, it also happens to be wildly popular. At issue is whether Audio is violating the law. Warner, Atlantic, Elektra and other record labels recently sued imeem (court filing here), claiming that it knew full-well it was infringing on copyrighted material by offering users the “opportunity to share popular music and music videos for free.” Facebook is not commenting on changes to its terms of service, nor on any copyright issues. Source: Venture Beat [...]

By: Americo

Americo — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 22:19:51 +0000

Whoa. Facebook is playing with fire.

By: Insider Chatter by Donna Bogatin » Is Facebook Playing DMCA Games ?

Insider Chatter by Donna Bogatin » Is Facebook Playing DMCA Games ? — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 21:28:14 +0000

[...] Eric Eldon now explores “Facebook’s copyright quagmire” in relation to its developer platform program, underscoring a recent change by Facebook to its terms which appears to relax its copyright stance: On June 1st, Facebook made a significant modification to its terms of service for developers: It deleted a line that specifically restricted developers from offering “an index” of copyrighted material to other Facebook users.The change is happening in tandem with the success to Facebook by applications like Audio, which pitches itself as an easy way for users to get and play music from a central library (an index) of user-added tracks. [...]