{"id":280738,"date":"2021-06-22T15:59:39","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T12:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/youtubes-not-always-liable-for-user-copyright-infringements\/"},"modified":"2021-06-22T15:59:39","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T12:59:39","slug":"youtubes-not-always-liable-for-user-copyright-infringements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/youtubes-not-always-liable-for-user-copyright-infringements\/","title":{"rendered":"#YouTube\u2019s not (always) liable for user copyright infringements"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#YouTube<\/a>\u2019s not (always) liable for user copyright infringements<\/strong>”
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YouTube has won a skirmish in its copyright war with the EU\u2019s creative industries \u2014 but suffered some losses on the way.<\/p>\n

Europe\u2019s top court ruled on Tuesday that YouTube and other online platforms are not responsible for copyright-infringing material uploaded by users. However, they could be liable if they fail to act \u201cexpeditiously\u201d to remove or block content once they\u2019re aware of breaches.<\/p>\n

They could also be liable if they don\u2019t adopt \u201cthe app<\/a>ropriate technological measures\u201d to tackle copyright breaches, provide tools \u201cspecifically intended\u201d for the illegal sharing of content, or \u201cknowingly promote such sharing,\u201d the European Court of Justice said.<\/p>\n

The judgment stems from two lawsuits that were brought to a German court, which then sought advice from the ECJ.<\/p>\n

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The first involves music producer Frank Peterson, who sued YouTube and parent company Google after recordings to which he holds the rights were uploaded to YouTube without his approval.<\/p>\n

The second action was brought by publisher Elsevier, which sued\u00a0file-hosting site Cyando for uploading works without gaining permission.<\/p>\n

The ECJ said that the platforms should only be held responsible for the breaches in certain circumstances:<\/p>\n

As currently stands, operators of online platforms do not, in principle, themselves make a communication to the public of copyright-protected content illegally posted online by users of those platforms. However, those operators do make such a communication in breach of copyright where they contribute, beyond merely making those platforms available, to giving access to such content to the public.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The German court will now determine how to interpret the ECJ\u2019s judgments.<\/p>\n

In response to the ruling, a YouTube spokesperson said the company had $4 billion to the music industry over the past year, over 30% of which came from monetized user-generated content:<\/p>\n

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Youtube is a leader in copyright and supports rights holders being paid their fair share. That\u2019s why we\u2019ve invested in state of the art copyright tools which have created an entirely new revenue stream for the industry.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The judgment will have a limited influence, however, as it focuses on old copyright rules in the bloc. The European Parliament has since approved a controversial overhaul of the laws, which require web giants to automatically filter copyright material.<\/p>\n

Critics have described<\/a> the upload filters as \u201ccensorship machines\u201d that would inhibit innovation and free speech online. YouTube, for example, would be a very different place if it had always been liable for what users upload to the platform.<\/p>\n

The legislation will have a major impact on YouTube\u2019s future copyright battles in the EU.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“#YouTube\u2019s not (always) liable for user copyright infringements” YouTube has won a skirmish in its copyright war with the EU\u2019s creative industries \u2014 but suffered some losses on the way. Europe\u2019s top court ruled on Tuesday that YouTube and other online platforms are not responsible for copyright-infringing material uploaded by users. However, they could be…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":280739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img-cdn.tnwcdn.com\/image\/tnw?filter_last=1&fit=1280,640&url=https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/06\/Untitled-design-2-4.jpg&signature=6ea16f2dafcfa5d03835386bbf653974","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}