Universal Music Group has sued video sharing site Veoh for “massive copyright infringement”. You’ll remember that UMG threatened Veoh with a lawsuit in August, and Veoh pre-emptively filed against the music label claiming that it hadn’t infringed
In summary, we found that of the 6,725 most popular videos on YouTube, only 621 had been removed due to copyright requests. Views to the removed videos made up less than 6% of all recorded YouTube views.
Buried in my email this evening I found a cease and desist letter from an attorney at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, representing their client YouTube. We’ve been accused of a number of things: violating YouTube’s Terms of Use, of “tortious inter
In a move that’s deeply irritating some of the channel’s biggest fans, clips from The Daily Show, The Colbert Report and South Park have been removed from YouTube today following a DMCA from Viacom’s Comedy Central.
If you own a domain name, you are responsible for it and everything copyright related that is posted and happens on it. You MUST be the master of your own domain. If you are not able to be, you will be liable to any infringing acts on the domains you own.
Of course, real life is not like `Survivor': there is no such thing as total immunity from lawsuits. This one will establish whether the DMCA really does protect video sharing sites.
Google (or whomever) should resist falling for the chimera of traffic stats and millions of videos watched. These stats from Hitwise show that while things are not going as well for Google Video, they are not that bad either if they decided to work alone
Anleitung wie die Videohoster der Verantwortung entgehen können. Prinzipiell sind jedoch immer zuerst die User verantwortlich und können zur Haftung herangezogen werden.
