Hollywood Docket: Viacom withdraws YouTube claims; Eddie Vedder 'Hard' lawsuit; mug shots of the decade
Wed Dec 30, 2009 @ 11:57AM PSTEntertainment law news while putting together our New Year's Eve plan this morning:
- The judge presiding over the $1 billion Viacom lawsuit against YouTube has allowed Viacom to withdraw copyright infringement claims
for about 250 clips, including about 100 that were uploaded
to the site by Viacom employees or agents. Not surprisingly, YouTube owner Google is jumping all over this, asking the judge why it should have known that particular clips were infringing when Viacom's own employees uploaded some clips as part of its marketing strategy. Not a bad point.
- Conde Nast isn't screwing around in its quest to uncover the hackers who distributed unpublished photos and articles from December's GQ magazine. The publishing giant has subpoenaed Google and AT&T in its effort to obtain the identities of those who infiltrated its computer network.
- A canadian songwriter has sued Universal Music and Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder for changing the lyrics to his "Hard Sun" when Vedder recorded the track for the "Into the Wild" soundtrack. Gordon Peterson, who originally wrote the track in 1987, agreed to let Vedder record the song but wasn't happy when he heard the finished version and certain words were changed.
- Roman Polanski is suing photographers for harassing him and his family during his house arrest in Switzerland.
- Above the Law is taking nominations for 2009's Lawyer of the Year. We officially nominate Marc Randazza.
- Just because: Smoking Gun's Mug Shots of the Decade.
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