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Mygazines - read magazines online for free until?

Mygazines
Mygazines.com is a Flash based site where you can read most of your favorite magazines online for free. The big question is for how long, since this is copyrighted material after all, and as Folio reports, the magazine trade association MPA has already threatened legal action against the site.

Content on the site is uploaded by users and then displayed in a neat Flipbook reader with lots of tools like zoom, search, keyboard shortcuts, article directory, etc. You can also create your own magazine with content you supposedly own, upload it and share with others.

Since the site was registered in the Caribbean island of Anguilla, and is hosted by PRQ of Sweden, the same web host of Pirate Bay infamy, does the piracy theme apply? Although there are arguments aplenty for why publishers should be happy about their content being shared online - increased readership, more ad views, ability to go viral, etc., there is still that pesky copyright infringement argument that just won't go away.

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Filed under: Fun, Games, Blogging, Web services

YouTube is getting sued

youtube is getting suedOur friendly high trafficked video site is getting sued by a news service, along with its owner, Robert Tur.

The lawsuit alleges YouTube's sharing of its videos infringes on copyright violations. There is another lawsuit, in which the owner of the news site is suing YouTube for letting its users upload a video that he shot of Reginald Denny getting beat up during the 1992 Los Angeles riots.

reginald dennyThe news site, and owner, are trying to weasel $150,000 for each video that had its copyright violated on YouTube. They are also pushing the courts to forbid any other uploads of any of his work through YouTube. Tur also shot the famous OJ Simpson car chase.

The videos on YouTube are apparently tagged with names that are irrelevant to the content in the videos, making it difficult for copyright owners to locate infringing content.

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