YouTube
may be facing a huge lawsuit royalties if the latest decision of the courts in
Germany to be applied. According to the court, Youtube can be held responsible
for the content uploaded and posted on video sharing sites.
The
lawsuit was filed by GEMA, a music royalty collection agency in Germany, which
represents more than 60,000 writers and musicians in Germany. This suit was
filed on 12 music video content is uploaded the user but without paying
royalties.
The
court ruling, Youtube could be forced to pay royalties to the owners of the
music video uploaded and found to violate copyright. Company purchased by
Google could be sued if it put the video without permission from the copyright
owner. However, the court noted that Youtube is not obligated to control the
content of all the videos uploaded to the site.
Other
court decisions is the command for Youtube to put words based filter.
Installation is intended to strengthen the system of content filtering
violations in the future so that the work of others can be avoided. Youtube own
party warned that this move will slow down the upload is not too good for
non-professional journalists who usually rely on the news coming from the user.
Youtube
Party said in court that they should not be responsible for the content that
users uploaded. Youtube says that they have a new copyright filter that can
detect sophisticated and remove content that violates of the site. Youtube also
has to warn users if they violate copyright. It said in a previous trial that
Youtube will content when users and rights holders to give warning to Youtube
for infringing content.
Youtube
is expected to appeal against this decision. Youtube party also said it remains
committed to finding a solution to music licensing issues in Germany that will
benefit artists, composers, authors, publishers and labels, as well as the
wider community of Youtube. Interpretation of this trial will make user-created
content is more difficult to operate. This will create confusion not only for
Youtube, but also for creative services on the Internet for insisting on
content filtering for all content that the user entered.
If
the decision is in force then there will be millions of music video is
affected. Google will eventually have to spend a lot of money to be paid to the
music industry on this important decision of the case.
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