Universal Music group took aim at video-sharing sites this week, with a copyright infringement lawsuit against Bolt Media and Grouper Networks. The lawsuit charges the sites with hosting Universal-owned clips, and seeks $150,000 damages for each piece of infringing content.
"User generated sites like Grouper and Bolt, that derive so much of their value from the traffic that our videos, recordings and songs generate, cannot reasonably expect to build their business on the backs of our content and the hard work of our artists and songwriters--without permission and without in any way compensating the content creators," Universal Music said in a statement.
(...) Grouper--acquired by Sony for $65 million six weeks ago--denied that the company violated Universal's copyrights.(...) Grouper complies with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which contains a "safe harbor" provision that protects Web hosts from liability if they remove copyrighted material when owners complain. A Bolt Media spokeswoman also stated that the company always takes down any copyrighted clips as soon as it's notified of complaints.
Source: MediaPost.
Wednesday, October 18
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