nsane.forums Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 YouTube must filter content uploaded by users a German court ruled on Friday. YouTube must filter content uploaded by users, a German court ruled on Friday. YouTube was taken to court for copyright infringement in uploaded videos by German music royalty collecting society GEMA, which said that the Google-owned video site isn't doing enough to block copyright-protected music videos. YouTube argued that it was simply a platform and not responsible for the user-generated content. In what may look like a compromise, the Hamburg District Court on Friday ruled that the video site is liable, but only after it has been informed of the copyright infringement. However, the court wants to see YouTube implement more efficient filtering software, such as word filtering, to block illegal content uploaded by users, said court press officer Conrad Mueller-Horn. YouTube currently offers copyright holders its Content-ID application, which allows them to search for copyright-protected material by comparing uploaded videos with a reference video -- a so-called digital fingerprint. Copyright holders can then decide to take it down, leave it up or place advertisements next to it and share in the revenue from those ads, explained Google spokesman Al Verney. He added that this system, which allows copyright holders to take down videos themselves, had proved extremely popular with other royalty-collecting agencies throughout Europe. In practical terms, YouTube will no longer be allowed to show in Germany seven videos of songs that are protected by GEMA. But many tech-savvy Germans already take advantage of software to mask their IP address location and can access the content from foreign countries where there are no restrictions. Civil liberties organizations are concerned about courts ordering increasing filtering technology. "It is another step towards the privatization and very fallible automation of our rights to communicate online. How healthy is the cultural life of a society which effectively bans itself from parody and mash-up of existing cultural expressions?" Joe McNamee of digital rights group EDRi said in email. Neither YouTube nor GEMA has yet indicated whether they will appeal the court's decision. Google's official statement reads: "The ruling raises questions regarding the obligations of hosting platforms for user generated content, i.e. the use of Content-ID and word filters. We will have to examine the decision of the court before being able to comment further on this." View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted April 20, 2012 Administrator Share Posted April 20, 2012 A court in Germany has ruled that YouTube is responsible when its users post videos containing copyright music. On top of its existing ContentID systems, the court in Hamburg now wants YouTube to install additional keyword-based filters that detect when copyrighted material is uploaded. The battle between YouTube and music rights group GEMA began in earnest when talks between the pair on the issue of royalties completely broke down in 2010. An earlier agreement with GEMA, which represents around 60,000 artists, had expired in 2009. Rather than come to the negotiated settlement preferred by YouTube, GEMA commenced legal proceedings on copyright grounds against the Google-owned video site. The action concerned 12 specific music videos uploaded by YouTube users to which GEMA owns the rights but for which YouTube paid no royalties. GEMA argued that YouTube hadn’t done enough to monitor content submitted to the site. Today a court in Hamburg ruled that YouTube is indeed responsible for the material its users upload to the site, despite the site having state-of-the-art filters which aim to detect and remove infringing content. Presiding Judge Heiner Steeneck said his ruling gave both sides a reason to declare victory. GEMA wanted YouTube to take responsibility for videos uploaded in the past as well as those uploaded in the future but that was denied. “YouTube isn’t the perpetrator here, it’s those people who illegally upload songs,” Steeneck said. “That’s why YouTube doesn’t have to search all videos uploaded in the past. It only has to help detect videos from the moment it is alerted about possible violations.” Although YouTube operates its ‘ContentID’ anti-piracy system which detects infringements by way of digital fingerprints, the court ruled that in isolation that is insufficient. In addition YouTube must now filter by keyword too. Both sides say they are considering their options and are yet to announce whether they will appeal the ruling. :view: View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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