American Airlines Flies Subpoena To Google

An excerpt of a copyrighted training video that showed up on Google Video has led American to demand the identity of the uploader via a subpoena. The greatly-loathed Digital Millennium Copyright Act takes center stage again, as a subpoena filed under its provisions by American Airlines has been issued to Google. American wants all the information related to who may have uploaded part of the "Flight Attendant, Upside Down" training video to Google Video. Google does obey requests made under the DMCA, but is playing a delaying action against American by forcing it to go to federal court to request the subpoena, Mercury News GDrive generated lots of chatter when details of the service were inadvertently revealed as part of an Analyst Day presentation Google held recently. Google also made a for users of the latest release of the Google Desktop beta product. Data made available by a person for use with Search Across Computers will store a 30-day temporary copy of that data on a dedicated subset of Google's servers. If businesses or individuals can pry that data from Google with a simple subpoena, that could erode demand for or usage of such services. Tag: | document.write("Email Murdok here.") Drag this to your Bookmarks. Add to document.write("Del.icio.us") | Yahoo! My Web David Utter is a staff writer for Murdok covering technology and business.