Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'copyright'

Are Links Themselves Subject to Copyright Concerns?

Let's say you wanted to be altruistic and provide a link to a site in hopes to raise awareness about a program that they promote. But when you alert the webmaster of said site, they go on a hissy fit...

Should You Let Content Theft Slide if Site is Linking Back to You?

A WebmasterWorld thread asks a question many bloggers and writers ask themselves. What if a site is routinely stealing your content and links to your site as the original source. Plus, in this case, the site that stole your content...

Viacom Sues Google's YouTube For $1 Billion

Yesterday I reported at Search Engine Land that Viacom Sues Google For $1 Billion Over Unauthorized Videos. Viacom said they are basically tired of Google not doing enough to remove their content from YouTube. Google said they have "not received...

Microsoft Squealing on Google Over Book Copyright Issues

The big news over the weekend was that Microsoft to blast Google for its copyright policy via Reuters. Let me give you some quotes to some things up quickly. In prepared remarks to be delivered to the Association of American...

Google & Belgium: Google Goes to Court Over News Inclusion

I have been covering the Google & Belgium legal issues at Search Engine Watch for a while now and I thought it would be a good time to give a short summary for you here. Belgium publishers sued Google for...

Ask.com Responds To Google's "Google It" Request

A Cre8asite Forums thread discusses the response by Ask.com to Google's request for you to only "Google" at Google.com. To summarize, Google posted Do you "Google?" asking; We'd like to make clear that you should please only use "Google" when...


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