YouTube Takes Copyright Law into Their Own Hands with New Rules for Music
Rightsholders will lose the ability to manually claim payment for unintended use of their music, but they can still block the videos.
Rightsholders will lose the ability to manually claim payment for unintended use of their music, but they can still block the videos.
The Australian public enquiry is the first of its kind, so will likely influence decisions made by other authorities around the world.
The Finnish Market Court ruled that the ISP need not make payments to a collection society because their IPTV streams are original broadcasts, not retransmissions of over-the-air TV.
Creators of digital archives are likely to suffer heavier penalties if they use content in a way that the owners find upsetting.
The Court awarded damages of EUR30,000 after Facebook failed to rapidly remove links to the video of a song.
The Swedish Patents and Market Court of Appeal decided a blocking injunction was disproportionate.
A court in Guangdong has upheld a fine of CNY260mn (USD38.5mn) after Tencent and other major Chinese online video providers complained that QVOD supported piracy.
The EU was not given proper notification of a German law that limits web quotations from press articles.
Greece is the latest country to discover that if you block a specific URL then pirates will simply move their site to a different URL.
The European Court of Human Rights found a Hungarian news website had the right to link to a defamatory YouTube video.