YouTube ... has begun removing more than 100,000 unauthorized clips belonging to Viacom – everything from snippets of Jon Stewart’s “The Daily Show” to Nickelodeon’s “SpongeBob SquarePants.
It was not the first time. NBC Universal has three employees who troll the site every day looking for studio-owned material, and they send more than 1,000 such requests a month to YouTube.
Deshalb werde die DFL "rigoros" gegen illegale Angebote vorgehen, sagte Bender. "Wir haben die Firma NetResult damit beauftragt, Urheberrechtsverstöße im Internet aufzuspüren, die Verantwortlichen abzumahnen und Unterlassung zu fordern."
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.
If not, then after they go after the little guys to set precedent, they will go after the big guys and their deep pockets.If they can win some judgements saying these little sites are not protected by Safe Harbor rules, then they have all the leverage in
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
