SET, STAR And Saregama Have All Sent Legal Notices To YouTube
By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 16 Jul 2007 05:08 AM PST
So after T-Series, Sony Entertainment Television, STAR India and Saregama joins the ranks of those who’ve now publicly declared that they’ve sent legal notices to YouTube, asking the online video site to remove copyrighted content [via FE]. I just can’t get over the fact that SET India’s mobile head Kaushal Modi says they’ve got legal notice templates ready in office for sending out to video sharing sites. Saregama, however, seems open to a revenue share deals...however, for the likes of Sony and STAR, they have international distribution deals already in place, and the deluge of illegal content online is going to impact future deals and negotiations.
On it’s part, YouTube says that it abides by the the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”), and since it cannot prevent users from uploading copyrighted content (that hasn’t been fingerprinted and banned already), copyright owners have to inform it of each and every individual instance of infringement, following which they’ll remove the video. Hence the templates of notices.
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