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Appeals court overturns ban on video-sharing site
Aug 3rd, 2012
(Reuters) - A video-sharing website that allows users to post links to copyrighted videos hosted on third-party sites is not infringing copyright laws, a federal appeals court ruled on Thursday. The ruling reversed a lower court decision that had temporarily blocked the video bookmarking site myVidster.com from linking to pornographic videos owned by Flava Works Inc. The decision was a win for Internet giants including Google Inc and Facebook Inc, which had asked the appeals court to overturn the lower court ruling in order to protect innovation on the Web. The social media site myVidster. ... (Source: Reuters) -
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