Veoh ‘not guilty’ in copyright case
p2pnet news view | Movies:- Video sharing companies aren’t responsible for posts that show up on their sites.
That could be the bottom line following a court decision which says Veoh Networks isn’t liable for copyright infringement for material uploaded to its Web site, dismissing a 2006 case filed against it by Io Group, an adult-entertainment company,” says the Wall Street Journal, also noting, “The ruling falls within an area that has become contentious turf as professional video content floods the Web.”
US district judge Howard Lloyd, ” ruled that Veoh qualifies for the safe harbor provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act because it doesn’t ‘actively participate or supervise the uploading of files,” says the WSJ Law Blog, going on:
“Instead, video files are uploaded through an automated process which is initiated entirely at the volition of Veoh’s users,” he said, adding the evidence, “demonstrates that, far from encouraging copyright infringement, Veoh has a strong DMCA policy, takes active steps to limit incidents of infringement on its website and works diligently to keep unauthorized works off its Web site”.
Click here for the court document.
Wall Street Journal - Veoh Copyright Case Dismissed, August 28, 2008
WSJ Law Blog - Veoh Wins Copyright Infringement Lawsuit; Viacom-YouTube Next?, August 28, 2008
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August 28th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
I have a question for anyone who is truly qualified to answer. Don’t get me wrong; it’s not that I’m not interested in the average person’s opinion on this, it’s just that the judge isn’t.
There are a lot of legal streaming sites on the web, now; HULU, Fox, CBS, etc. But there are also a lot of sites that link to media that isn’t neccessarily authorized. Sometimes it’s not easy to tell the difference. If you do wind up watching media that was uploaded in violation of copyright law can you get in trouble ? I’m assuming you haven’t uploaded or downloaded anything to the site and you don’t have anything to do with it’s actual existence; you just wound up on a page that you didn’t know was violating copyrights and watched the show in ignorance. Can you be in trouble for that ?
August 28th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
No you cannot get in trouble for using a site that links to illegal content and streams it to you, as long as your not the uploader, your fine. To, note the article, it is a joke, Veoh knows about the illegal content and they do remove it, but they also ignore the fact how people override their security measures, which is a known fact, using veohproxy, and njhelper. They know of these things and the websites and how they achieve the workarounds for the Veoh servers, but yet Veoh does nothing but silence people who talk about it within their forums. It is my belief someone at Veoh allows these sites to operate, all still by handling DMCA notices.
September 22nd, 2008 at 12:45 pm
Yeah I was in a similar situation last year with a big company. Although I had nothing to do with what transpired, someone found a way to access my login/password for a forum and started posting maliciously. Luckily after doing an IP trace and looking @ my network’s address (which is static), I was exonerated. I realised that in the end it’s not worth viewing viral video that I am unsure of it being copyrighted or not.