Numlock News: June 6, 2019 • Ice Cream, Netflix, World Cup
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By Walt Hickey Copyright VidAngel was the subject of a lawsuit from Disney, Fox, and Warner Bros. after it attempted to get cute with the home video market. The company — whose core product is censoring the sex, violence and profanity out of movies for consumers who would prefer to watch family safe entertainment — attempted to roll out a workaround to renting digital content well ahead of when studios want their work to hit the rental market. They’d sell access to a movie to a consumer for $20, filter the films, and after viewing buy the digital copy back from them for $19. This was clever, but the Valkyries that populate the legal department of the Walt Disney Company do not care about cleverness, and so they descended upon VidAngel with a vengeance. The court ruled in the studio’s favor, and now a judge will decide what VidAngel owes for the 824 copyrighted works. Damages range from $750 to $150,000 per violation, putting the eventual cost between
Numlock News: June 6, 2019 • Ice Cream, Netflix, World Cup
Numlock News: June 6, 2019 • Ice Cream…
Numlock News: June 6, 2019 • Ice Cream, Netflix, World Cup
By Walt Hickey Copyright VidAngel was the subject of a lawsuit from Disney, Fox, and Warner Bros. after it attempted to get cute with the home video market. The company — whose core product is censoring the sex, violence and profanity out of movies for consumers who would prefer to watch family safe entertainment — attempted to roll out a workaround to renting digital content well ahead of when studios want their work to hit the rental market. They’d sell access to a movie to a consumer for $20, filter the films, and after viewing buy the digital copy back from them for $19. This was clever, but the Valkyries that populate the legal department of the Walt Disney Company do not care about cleverness, and so they descended upon VidAngel with a vengeance. The court ruled in the studio’s favor, and now a judge will decide what VidAngel owes for the 824 copyrighted works. Damages range from $750 to $150,000 per violation, putting the eventual cost between