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A California federal court judge, Judge Howard Lloyd, has thrown out a copyright infringement suit against online video site Veoh. The suit was brought by adult entertainment company IO Group.

The judge’s reasoning was that Veoh is protected by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s (DMCA) safe harbor provisions. Since Veoh takes quick action in light of copyright issues, they are not acting illegally.

“Veoh has a strong DMCA policy, takes active steps to limit incidents of infringement on its website and works diligently to keep unauthorized works off its site,” wrote Judge Lloyd.

Guess who loves this ruling? Google. It’s currently facing its own copyright infrigement suit brought against YouTube by Viacom. Because the Veoh case was heard in California, it doesn’t set precedent for the YouTube case in New York. But Google hopes the Veoh ruling is still influential.

via NYT

Google has been busy on the legal, tech and policy front lately, and there’s a primary theme running through all of their pursuits: Google loves wide open spaces.

First up, as is being widely reported, Clearwire and Spring are combining their wifi and broadband services. But did you know Google is one of the companies behind the $3.2 billion deal? They’ve teamed with Comcast, Intel Capital, Time Warner Cable, Bright House Networks and Trilogy Equity Partners to create the new company.

Sprint’s 2.5 GHz spectrum is part of the deal. And spectrum is something at the top of Google’s wish list lately. Google didn’t win any of its bids on a recent FCC spectrum auction. And last week, Google raised concern that Verizon will not keep its spectrum auction space open afterall.

Google is also facing resistance to its plan for “white spaces.” Several sports groups including the NFL, NBA and NASCAR are now lobbying the FCC to not open up “white spaces” on TV spectrum. Google wants them opened up for wireless. The groups are concerned about signal interference for things like coaching headsets and referee microphones.

In a different kind of open battle, Google is saying that it won’t settle a lawsuit brought by Viacom over copyrighted material, according to Business Week. David Eun, vice president in Content Partnerships at Google told Dow Jones newswires that they plan to go all the way to the Supreme Court with the case. Viacom brought the $1 billion suit after the two companies couldn’t reach a licensing agreement for content on YouTube.

Whether it’s content or spectrum, Google wants to keep things out in the open. They’re going to great lengths to make it happen, and while corporations may not be thrilled, consumers are likely to be happy should Google meet its open goals.

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Henry Blodget, editor of the fast-growing blog, Silicon Alley Insider (SAI), has an exclusive interview today with an unnamed “influential Yahoo (YHOO) and Microsoft (MSFT) shareholder.” He offers exclusive “access to the (shareholder’s) thinking on the Microsoft-Yahoo deal.”

That would be me, says the former Wall St. analyst. Henry Blog-It!

Apparently not enough people have asked Henry Blodget for Henry Blodget’s opinion of the Microsoft-Yahoo deal. So he this morning he did it himself.

Slate tried their best. Daniel Gross quoted Internet analyst and Slate contributor Henry Blodget in Slate (MONEYBOX: The Unspeakable R Word): “Search may be the best advertising medium in the history of the world,” says Internet analyst and Slate contributor Henry Blodget. “But that doesn’t help much when searchers are broke.”

That’s his Brokeback Mountain View: no country for old analysts.

All is forgiven: Blodget grew up in the “Me Decade” coined by Tom Wolfe. Henry made coin on Wall St. just after the “Bonfire of the Vanities.” Now as an aspiring A-List blogger he writes “Advertisements For Myself,” a 1960s strategy pioneered by Norman Mailer.

Blodget has become the defacto DIY go-to guy: DIY plumbers (leaks), DIY pink slippers (layoffs), DIY Page Six-ers (celebs, rumors) and DIY fruit stand (sour grapes). SAI loves engaging in what Mike Arrington of TechCrunch lovingly calls “rumormongering” to describe his own pioneering style of the New New Web 2.0 Journalism.

Henry has sense of humor calling his ploy a self-styled example of “Net-era absurdity.” We prefer to term it Kafkaesque.

Henry - no private wealth financial advisor - has hung on to his Yahoo and Microsoft shares for “the better part of a decade.” (So that’s what’s behind his bearish views on the Google Disaster.)

The better part of a decade!

I’d summarize and disagree with Henry but I don’t want to interrupt his conversation with himself. But you’ve really gotta read it to believe it.

You’ll find out the most important reason Henry warns “Jerry to get his butt up to Redmond.”

Why? Well for one reason, Henry thinks “Steve Ballmer has a decent chance of getting Jerry and the board fired.”

There you have it. What self-respecting billionaire wants to file for unemployment insurance these days?

Jerry Yang, are you listening?

With limited options, Yahoo board members face increased pressure to accept Microsoft’s hostile bid. Yahoo has resisted Microsoft’s advances in the past, convincing shareholders a turnaround was just around the corner.

So how much money did Yahoo leave on the table by declining the earlier offer? Microsoft won’t publicly reveal the bid. Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang would be loath to share the offer from the company the Valley loves to loathe.

Here’s the rumored Microsoft bid made last year: $40 plus per share. That’s the number Oppenheimer analyst Sandeep Aggarwal cited in a note to clients, suggesting a potential 26-40 percent upside for investors from the current offer of $31 per share - if Yahoo can negotiate a better deal for its shareholders or find a more suitable suitor.

So who’s willing - besides Google - to play white knight to Yahoo’s digital damsel in distress?

The knights hardly comprise a round table. Only five companies have been widely reported as possible suitors: AT&T, Comcast, News Corp, Time Warner, and Verizon Communications. None has stepped up to enter the fray. Rupert Murcoch of News Corp publicly stated he didn’t plan to prepare a competitive bid.

The Wall St. Journal (subscription) reported this morning that Yahoo’s hoping against hope that a rival bidder or a business tie-up with Google would save the day. Google desperately wants to derail the deal, even though their share of searches continue to erode Yahoo’s market share.

Mike Arrington of TechCrunch expects shareholders to approve the deal soon.

A Google-Yahoo partnership, though, isn’t an ideal solution for Yahoo either. It’s not as if Google could sign a noncompete agreement with Yahoo in lines of business Yahoo has strength in: local mobile, e-mail, display advertising, or e-mail.

How much revenue Google would be willing to forego by partnering with Yahoo in search also remains in question. In its quest to index the world’s information, Google has become a victim of its own success.

A grizzly bear hug (not even a teddy bear hug) from Ballmer may have squeezed the life from Silcon Valley’s once and future king.

Now it seems Google’s mouth-to-mouth resuscitation of Yahoo’s search business will be the only hope for Yahoo’s survival.

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