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And so YouTube became a massive lawsuit electromagnet, attracting legal challenges from across the country and around the world. Google has maintained that most complaints should fall under the DMCA's Safe Harbor provision—meaning that a web site oper
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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.
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Following the recent news that Fox subpoenaed YouTube to identify a user uploading copyrighted content, I thought it'd be useful to collate info about litigation against the major video-sharing sites. Below, details on lawsuits and subpoenas against Veoh,
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There are widespread reports today (although annoyingly, few sources) that YouTube has been blocked in Brazil following the court order earlier this week. Model Daniela Cicarelli, you’ll remember, demanded over $100,000 in damages for every day her sex
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A Brazilian court ordered the popular video sharing service YouTube, a unit of Internet search provider Google Inc. (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile , Research), to be shut down until it removes a celebrity sex video from its site, a judicial clerk said on Thursd
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It’s likely, then, that the networks (and Viacom) would not make their YouTube-like venture exclusive, which raises the question: why do it? If Movielink, which is faltering and beset by stronger rivals that offer the same, if not better, movies, serv
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YouTube's actions in response to a subpoena it received in May show that it has been keeping tabs on users who post copyrighted material to its site -- and in one case shared the name of a user with lawyers from a Hollywood film studio.
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Today, EMI will announce a deal with Gotuit, meaning that videos from Coldplay, David Bowie, Robbie Williams, Gorillaz, Kylie Minogue, Lily Allen, Janet Jackson, OK GO!, Fat Boy Slim and hundreds more top artists will be available on their site, but not Y
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So interested, in fact, that he dedicated a Nov. 14 posting on his blog to a motion for summary judgment filed by Tur's lawyers. "To say the stakes are huge would be an understatement," wrote Cuban, who subsequently highlighted an argument made by Tur's l
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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
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12.5 percent of the equity issued and issuable is subject to escrow for one year to secure certain indemnification obligations. Based on the $1.5 billion amount, that should be about $187.5 million.
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This is the YouTube curse: If a clip gets a lot of viewers, it immediately falls under scrutiny -- and if it's copyrighted material, as is often the case, the clip may well be removed, leaving useless links and frustrated viewers in its wake.
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Most of YouTube Inc.'s agreements with record labels don't address royalties for music publishers, who control the copyrights to the words and music underlying the recordings. YouTube or its partners must locate parties ranging from studios to actors, and
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A US company that shut down its website because it was overwhelmed by millions of people looking for YouTube has sued the online video-sharing portal.
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YouTube isn't the alternative to rampant piracy; it's the enabler of it. If Google isn't successful in the current negotiations, it would be a huge and expensive embarrassment for the company - and, one assumes, could scuttle the YouTube deal entirely.
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What’s interesting here is that Bayern president Karl-Heinz Rummenigge is complaining about footage taken by the fans themselves, not professionally created videos. He claims that access to these clips on YouTube is harming the team’s own video site,
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Google is “engaged in a frantic round of negotiations” with traditional media companies, even offering tens of millions of dollars in upfront payments to ward off any potential copyright lawsuits. Google CEO Eric Schmidt has met with top execs from CB
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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.
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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.
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YouTube hat Paramount die Userdaten von Uploadern ausgehändigt, die fragliches Material hochgeladen haben. Der User wurde verklagt und YouTube hat einen Präzedenzfall geschaffen: Verklagt die User nicht uns!
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You may be watching YouTube, but YouTube is watching you too. YouTube actively worked with Paramount, suggesting that YouTube is very willing to work with content owners and users shouldn't expect protection from the site.
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Instead it’s two smaller players - Bolt.com and Grouper - that face the wrath of Universal’s lawyers and a possible $150,000 in damages for every infringement.
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it seems that YouTube aren’t going after these sites at the moment. And if they did, you’ve got to wonder where the line will be drawn: if a commercial blog posts a YouTube video, are they also breaking the ToS?
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Es geht los und es ist Warner! Dick Parsons, the chairman of Time Warner, fired a shot across the bows of Google, saying his group would pursue its copyright complaints against the video sharing site YouTube.com.
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what copyright holders are worried about is lost revenue. Set a threshhold above which to enforce copyright, and ignore everything else. Even better would be to offer copyright holders a portion of any future advertising revenues above that threshhold.
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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
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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
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So, mark my words, YouTube will get sued. And it will lose. The tools it is talking about, that identify and remove copyrighted content, will have to be rushed into practice. So, mark my words, YouTube will get sued. And it will lose.
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Both Forrester and IDC research companies argue that YouTube will face the same battle fought and lost by file-sharing site Napster. Sie werden die Fälle vor Gericht verlieren, wie es bei Grokster usw. geschehen ist.
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YouTube can lose its safe harbor protections if it appears that they are directly profiting from the infringement of copyrights by their users. In von Lohmann's opinion, this is why YouTube only shows advertisements on pages without video on them.
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Don’t ask! Hell, record execs are too busy in marketing meetings figuring out how to get their wares placed in the few existing slots on radio so they don’t get fired to pay attention to your wacky idea until it gets traction.
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Doug Morris has said that YouTube and MySpace are “copyright infringers and owe us tens of millions of dollars”. He added, “How we deal with these companies will be revealed shortly” - suggesting that the world’s biggest record company could be
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Anleitung wie die Videohoster der Verantwortung entgehen können. Prinzipiell sind jedoch immer zuerst die User verantwortlich und können zur Haftung herangezogen werden.
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Analyse der Rechtsprobleme, die sich Aufgrund der massiven Copyrightverletzungen auf YouTube für die Firma und deren User ergeben. Um nicht das Napster-Schicksal zu erleiden muss YouTube eine andere Copyrightpolitik fahren.
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Noch mehr Gedanken dazu wie das mit den TAC von YouTube ist. Prinzipiell sollten die User die Möglichkeit haben eine Lizenz für ihr Video auszusuchen. Außerdem gilt das Copyright wieder wenn ein Video gelöscht wird.
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YouTube wird für seine Terms and Conditions scharf angegriffen. Das große Problem ist dass diese wohl in dieser Form notwendig sind aber eben immer noch Probleme für viele Autoren darstellen.
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Ein Amerikanischer Journalist hat YouTube auf $150 000 Strafe für jedes seiner geklauten Videos verklagt. Das besondere dabei ist dass er nicht erst DMCA Briefe geschickt hat sodern gleich geklagt hat.
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Die Musikindustrie scheint YouTube und andere nicht verklagen zu wollen sondern eher eine kooperation anzustreben. Die Videos sollen promotion für die Musik sein. Einzig aufgenommene original Videos sind problematisch.
