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Today, Wendy Davis at Online Media Daily published an article on the apparent resolution of our YouTube dispute with Fox Chicago.  But it includes a quote from a Fox spokesman suggesting that the matter might not be over yet:

Progress Illinois's lawyer, Paul Alan ...

In my first post on Progress Illinois' dispute with FOX Chicago over our use of their video content on YouTube, I wrote the following:

Rather then trying to turn the clock back to 1995, WFLD should get its
web presence in order.  Rather than trying to impede the ...

We're pleased to report that, as of 8:10 pm last night, Progress Illinois' YouTube channel is finally up-and-running again after being suspended for more than six weeks due to a copyright infringment claim from FOX Chicago. 

With the representation of Public Citizen's ...

Today, Free Press' "Media Minutes" podcast covered our dispute with Fox Chicago regarding the use of their content on YouTube.  Listen below:

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At the moment, all I can say about the dispute is that Levy has been in contact with Fox Televisions ...

The clock is ticking for Fox Chicago.

After our YouTube channel was suspended due to copyright infringement clams by the station, we sent a counter-notification to YouTube challenging WFLD's complaints.  Yesterday, we received an email letting us know that our counter-...

Since my last post on the ongoing Fox Chicago/Progress Illinois dispute over our use of clips from their news broadcasts, there have been some interesting developments.  For one, the station responded last week stating that they are willing to discuss the establishment of ...

In addition to MediaPost's article on our ongoing copyright dispute with Fox Chicago, Mashable editor-in-chief Adam Ostrow picked up the story this morning.  Here's his take:

Ignoring the copyright issue – where ProgressIllinois would seem to
be in the right anyhow...

In response to Progress Illinois' dispute with Fox Chicago over our use of brief clips from their news coverage, some have asked me exactly how many YouTube videos we create that included WFLD footage.  Here's the answer: a sweep of our coverage during the past ten months ...

Yesterday, I described how Fox Chicago's short-sighted reaction to our use of clips from their news coverage recently resulted in the suspension of our YouTube account.  Today, the Citizen Media Law Project (CMLP) at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & ...

As some of you might have noticed, the Progress Illinois YouTube channel has been disabled for the past three weeks, along with the corresponding "video wall" that is normally a fixture on our homepage.  Here's an explanation of what happened and what we're doing to ...