Question: Summary - Tie to Class - Personal Takeaway PLUS, add a quick note about what VidAngel's business model is today (it is not a pure
Summary - Tie to Class - Personal Takeaway
PLUS, add a quick note about what VidAngel's business model is today (it is not a pure streaming site as it was at the time of the case, but has responded to the lawsuits/legal losses by doing things differently with respect to home content "editing")
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CASE STUDY AND HISTORY: VIDANGEL On 9th July, 2016, VidAngel CEO Neal Harmon received news that the company was being sued by four major Hollywood movie studios for copyright infringement and violation of the DMCA. Neal and his three brothers had carefully designed the company's online movie streaming services in 2014 to be both legal and profitable. They had notified the major Hollywood studios of their intention and invited feedback. They had carefully based the business model on their interpretation of the Home Movie Act (FMA) 2005, which under certain circumstances allowed individuals, or someone they hired, to mute/skip over a small amount of objectionable content as
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Summary VidAngel was founded in 2014 as a company enabling users to filter out unwanted content from movies such as nudity profanity and violence The business model leveraged the Family Movie Act FMA ... View full answer
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