Internet Television

A Copyright Analysis of Online Streaming Media

Rory O’Sullivan

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Introduction

What is Internet Television? Four Stakeholders

Sites that host Sites that link Copyright holders Individual Viewer

Solving the Problem

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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

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Sites that Host

Definition Examples: Youtube, Veoh Issue Youtube v. Viacom (safe harbour

provisions of the DMCA)

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Sites that Link

Definition Examples: tv-links.cc,

quicksilverscreen.com Issue Facilitation of © infringement

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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

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Individual Viewer

Issues Transient/Incidental copying

U.S.A. v E.U. User generated content

Youtube’s Terms and Conditions

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Solving the Problem

Traditionally Increase the amount of laws DRM’s

Alternatively Copyleft/Creative Commons

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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