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French video site found guilty of copyright violation

26 July 2007 11:01 by Rich "vurbal" Fiscus | 3 comments

A French high court has ruled against the Paris-based video-sharing site Dailymotion, holding it liable for a copyrighted film posted by its users.

The court noted that Dailymotion did not take the film down even after it received a letter of complaint from the producers. The court ordered the site to pay the film's producers 23,000 euros in damages and fork over a 1500 euro fine for each day the movie stays online - though Dailymotion can appeal.

Last month, the President of the High Court of the First Instance of Paris issued a "summary order" that classified MySpace as a publisher, arguing that the so-called social-networker is more than just a hosting service and should be held liable for infringing content posted to its site.

The judgement against Dailymotion was issued by a separate arm of the court, and doesn't indicate that the site is considered a publisher.

Where web-based video sharers are concerned, American courts have yet to rule on the matter, but several lawsuits against YouTube and others - including the big one from Viacom - are pending. The outcome of those suits is likely to shape the future of not just those websites, but any site that allows the public to upload content.

Source: The Register

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ugc (Member) 26 July 2007 11:36
things like this just hold up progress. people will be so afraid of being sued, that they will just elect not to invent. thinking out loud ..."back to the stone ages" [ + quote]
borhan9 (AfterDawn Addict) 27 July 2007 2:22
Totally agree with ugc. You bring out a new technology and it's used in the way it was intended and you are trying to stop progress. If its the full movie i understand but if its just a 30 second teaser then it should be seen as free advertising for the movie in question. [ + quote]
Compaq (Newbie) 27 July 2007 11:49
I sooo guessed that this article was going to be about dailymotion, but i was still shocked! they're only sueing them, because dailymotion has grown soo big.. [ + quote]