But in my opinion, this (1979 Copyright law) only applies to Broadcast and Print Media using the airwaves and print materials as the medium. The web is a recent innovation, and uploading videos or music on the web might not be covered with this law/ provision, not unless PD 1979 was ammended. Does broadcasting on the web included in the presently enforced Copyright law? Anybody who knows any ammendment to this?

Same message:
“Tom Coates, who runs a weblog at plasticbag.org, said that KPMG was getting its just desserts. “On the Web, it’s so easy for people to make a farce out of companies like this, and these communities are very strong and are prepared to say you’re just dicking us around,” he said. “It’s not an environment where big companies can easily throw their weight around.”"

But back to ABS-CBN… well, there may be an issue with linking to a copyrighted material, it happened back in the late 90’s with Evangelion, during the boom of fansites.

BUT ABS-CBN will only waste what’s left of their money, this is a very weak case. During that Evangelion incident, the producer sued a lot of Evangelion fansites for posting – you guessed it – screenshots, spoilers, character profiles, and even more screenshots. They won, all Evangelion fansites were closed down worldwide.

A year or two later (can’t recall the exact time), Evangelion fansites started to pop-up again. This time, the producers decided to leave them alone. In the long-run, the whole Japanese anime industry found out that these fansites (and FANSUBS for that matter) is to their advantage, GREAT advantage. So they struck a deal with the fansubbers and fansites in general – once our products are licensed in your region and/or country, please remove any links to downloadable fansubs, even raw versions. Everybody accepted it (coz if they don’t, the Japanese government itself will sue them, and the International Copyright Law and Agreement allows it [they will bring you to Japan to be tried - hahaha... free ride if you win against them :p ]).

Anyway, with that, ABS-CBN’s case is really weak. Especially today where the taglines are “YOUniverse” and “COMMUNITY”. See, the POWER is now back to the PEOPLE. The Internet is a Socialism environment – balance between the corporate and the people. Hmm… we’re going political… (I’m not pro-communism btw, just pro-Socialism.. they’re different.)

Don’t be afraid of ABS-CBN, they will not win. Now, if they DO WIN, just wait-and-see how the world will retaliate. Just wait-and-see. In fact, if they do sue you, ABS-CBN will start to feel the wrath of the Socialist Internet. Anyone who’ve been following the “YOUniverse” and “COMMUNITY” stuff know that you must never provoke them (ie YOU and the Community), but rather TAP them. This is the simple secret of the big corporations like Microsoft, that’s why they allow their empoyers to blog.

http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,48874,00.html

The person they threatened ended up adding several links in one post and thanks to the then-new blog, thousands of people did the same
thing thus rendering KPMG’s threat meaningless, unless they wanted to go after everyone.

Sharon is not distributing DeCSS. Kaplan’s ruling doesn’t even apply to her.

http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/06/cyber/cyberlaw/16law.html