MMA Junkie reports that YouTube has shut down the Gracie Academy channel on YouTube. The UFC made a claim of copyright infringement due to the unauthorized use of copyrighted content. It was the channel’s third complaint which caused it to be shut down. Via MMA HQ: Ryron and Rener Gracie used to post up videos to […]
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Zuffa Gets Some Help From The Government in its Piracy Battle
In my earlier article, Zuffa’s Piracy Fight– Winning The Battle, But Can It Win The War?, I described Zuffa’s multi-pronged attack against the piracy of its intellectual property. In that article, after addressing the different prongs of the attack, I concluded as follows: Despite all of its successes outlined above, it is important to remember that shutting down […]
Google and Zuffa Copyright “Fight” Continues
As you may recall from my earlier article back in November, Zuffa Takes the Piracy Fight to Google, Zuffa continued its battle against piracy by sending a Digital Millennium Copyright notification to Google. As set forth in my earlier article, Zuffa was attempting to get Google to stop having its search engine return results for a number […]
UFC sues Justin.tv for piracy
Zuffa, LLC, the parent company of the UFC has sued Justin.tv for repeated illegal uploading of UFC PPV events on its web site. The UFC sent out a press release Friday afternoon notifying all of its lawsuit filed in the United States District Court of Nevada. From the UFC press release: The Justin.tv website enables anyone […]
Zuffa Takes the Piracy Fight to Google
In its active fight against piracy, Zuffa has taken a number of approaches to address the problem. I addressed many of these approaches in an earlier article, “Zuffa’s Piracy Fight– Winning The Battle, But Can It Win The War?” In that article, I noted many of Zuffa’s short-term successes but asked whether Zuffa is simply […]