German court wants YouTube to filter content

The court made such a decision today (Friday, April 20).

YouTube has been suing the GEMA community, accusing video hosting of distributing materials that violate exclusive copyrights. GEMA claims that YouTube does almost nothing to prevent such content from entering the network.

YouTube representatives say that this service is just a platform, so it is not responsible for the content posted by users. Be that as it may, today the Hamburg District Court ruled that the video hosting service begins to bear responsibility from the moment when it was notified of copyright infringement.
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But this is not all - the court insists that YouTube introduce a system for filtering user-generated content (like the words-filters in the file name) in order to reduce the flow of such files at least a little.

At this point, YouTube offers content owners the Content-ID application, which makes it easier to find and discover copyrighted material. The principle of operation is the comparison of videos uploaded to YouTube with the required files using so-called “digital fingerprints”. If the copyright holder finds such a video on YouTube, he has 3 options - either to leave it as it is, or to demand the removal of the video, or to place an advertisement in the video and receive a percentage of the income. Google spokesman Al Verni reports that such a system has justified itself and has become quite popular in Europe.

As yet decided - with the German computers closed access to the very seven videos that initiated the lawsuit GEMA. Of course, technically aware German guys have already started using programs and services that hide their real IP in order to access the video from the “territory” of other countries where the ban is not valid.

Some civil societies have already begun to worry - they consider this the beginning of network privatization, plus, in their opinion, there is nothing worth waiting for from attempts to subject automated communication to human communication.

So far, neither YouTube nor GEMA has let them know whether they will appeal the court decision or not.

Google, for the time being, refrains from detailed comments until their specialists have studied the court’s decision with all due care. The only thing that was in the statement - a reminder of the existence of Content-ID, which so far suited everyone.

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Vadi adds:

“They are all suing for deductions. YouTube and GEMA in March 2009 ended the license agreement and since that time they cannot agree on new terms. Rights holders require 10.25 percent of advertising, or from 0.026 to 0.6 cents from each video viewing. YouTube also says that it is not responsible for the videos being uploaded and will not pay. It should be noted that the video hoster in some countries has similar arrangements and it pays a percentage of advertising rights holders. Each artist can independently demand the removal of video from YouTube and if this is not done, and this happens often, you can sue a tidy sum. As far as I remember, recently someone sued in such a way 250 thousand euros. For reference: GEMA fees from the Internet in the vulgar year amounted to 22 million euros "