Internet Television A Copyright Analysis of Online Streaming Media Rory O’Sullivan

Introduction What is Internet Television? Four Stakeholders Sites that host Sites that link Copyright holders Individual Viewer Solving the Problem

What is Internet Television?

Four Stakeholders

Sites that host

Sites that link

Copyright holders

Individual Viewer

Solving the Problem

What is Internet Television? U.S.A. - 57 per cent of online adults have watched or downloaded video and 19 per cent do this daily Sweden - 24 per cent of sixteen to thirty year olds chose to download episodes of popular television shows rather than watch them on television U.C.C. - 23.5 per cent use Youtube very often

U.S.A. - 57 per cent of online adults have watched or downloaded video and 19 per cent do this daily

Sweden - 24 per cent of sixteen to thirty year olds chose to download episodes of popular television shows rather than watch them on television

U.C.C. - 23.5 per cent use Youtube very often

Sites that Host Definition Examples: Youtube, Veoh Issue Youtube v. Viacom (safe harbour provisions of the DMCA)

Definition

Examples: Youtube, Veoh

Issue

Youtube v. Viacom (safe harbour provisions of the DMCA)

Sites that Link Definition Examples: tv-links.cc, quicksilverscreen.com Issue Facilitation of © infringement

Definition

Examples: tv-links.cc, quicksilverscreen.com

Issue

Facilitation of © infringement

Copyright Holders Examples: NBC (U.S.A.), Channel 4 (U.K.), RTE (Ireland) Issue Lobbying N. Netanel, “Why has Copyright Expanded? Analysis and Critique” NEW DIRECTIONS IN COPYRIGHT LAW, Vol. 6, Fiona Macmillan, ed., Edward Elgar, 2008

Examples: NBC (U.S.A.), Channel 4 (U.K.), RTE (Ireland)

Issue

Lobbying

N. Netanel, “Why has Copyright Expanded? Analysis and Critique” NEW DIRECTIONS IN COPYRIGHT LAW, Vol. 6, Fiona Macmillan, ed., Edward Elgar, 2008

Individual Viewer Issues Transient/Incidental copying U.S.A. v E.U. User generated content Youtube’s Terms and Conditions

Issues

Transient/Incidental copying

U.S.A. v E.U.

User generated content

Youtube’s Terms and Conditions

Solving the Problem Traditionally Increase the amount of laws DRM’s Alternatively Copyleft/Creative Commons

Traditionally

Increase the amount of laws

DRM’s

Alternatively

Copyleft/Creative Commons

Conclusion The relentless march of intellectual property rights needs to be stopped and questioned. UNDP, United Nations Development Program, "Human Development Report 1999", Oxford University Press, 1999. http://www.undp.org/hdro/index2.html

The relentless march of intellectual property rights needs to be stopped and questioned. UNDP, United Nations Development Program, "Human Development Report 1999", Oxford University Press, 1999. http://www.undp.org/hdro/index2.html