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mediabistro.com: TVNewser found this 5/21/2008 on www.reuters.com [flag]
NEW YORK (Reuters) - NBC, CBS, and Fox charged on Tuesday that Redlasso, a closely-held website operator, has violated copyright laws by streaming video clips of their news, sports and television shows without permission. In a letter, lawyers for CBS Corp, General Electric's NBC, News Corp's Fox and Allbritton Communications Co, a TV station owner, said Redlasso has broken state and federal ... [link]

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NBC, CBS, Fox Send Cease & Desist to Redlasso
Published 5/21/2008 at mediabistro.com: TVNewser
You may have seen here on TVNewser that we use a service called Redlasso. It allows us clip portions from the broadcast and cable news networks and show them to you on the blog. But, as you might imagine, the networks are not very happy with the service, as it is their content (which comes at a cost to them) that we feature (for free). Well now NBC, CBS and Fox are doing something about it. Yesterday, lawyers from the networks sent a cease and desist letter to Redlasso telling them ...

Those Immediately Available Clips of American Idol Performances May Be Coming to an End
Published 5/21/2008 by david at Jossip
... In a dust up we kind of expected to see, and are surprised took so long to form, RedLasso (the company behind the embeddable clips) is being taken to court by NBC, CBS, and Fox for copyright violations. [Reuters] They’re not so happy that their programming has been reduced to bite-size segments for anyone to watch gratis. ...

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