Group of Net, Media Companies Agree on Copyright Guidelines: A group of Internet, media and technology companies announced today a set of guidelines they have agreed on aimed at protecting copyrights online.
The companies supporting the principles include CBS Corp., Dailymotion, Microsoft Corp., NBC Universal, News Corp.'s Fox and MySpace units, Viacom Inc., Veoh Networks Inc., and Walt Disney Co. Notably absent is Google Inc., which had been in discussions about possibly joining the group.
The guidelines are meant to address copyright-related issues that have flared up as user posting of content -- particularly video -- to the Web has boomed.
