youtube = napster 2.0?

Posted March 13, 2007 * Comments(6)

Jetzt wird’s zum ersten Mal richtig spannend um die Zukunft von “YouTube” und ähnlichen Diensten: Viacom (MTV, Comedy Central, etc.) verklagt “YouTube” auf 1 Milliarde US-Dollar Schadenersatz. Viacoms offizielle Begründung:

“YouTube is a significant, for-profit organization that has built a lucrative business out of exploiting the devotion of fans to others’ creative works in order to enrich itself and its corporate parent Google. Their business model, which is based on building traffic and selling advertising off of unlicensed content, is clearly illegal and is in obvious conflict with copyright laws. In fact, YouTube’s strategy has been to avoid taking proactive steps to curtail the infringement on its site, thus generating significant traffic and revenues for itself while shifting the entire burden – and high cost – of monitoring YouTube onto the victims of its infringement.

This behavior stands in stark contrast to the actions of other significant distributors, who have recognized the fair value of entertainment content and have concluded agreements to make content legally available to their customers around the world. There is no question that YouTube and Google are continuing to take the fruit of our efforts without permission and destroying enormous value in the process. This is value that rightfully belongs to the writers, directors and talent who create it and companies like Viacom that have invested to make possible this innovation and creativity.

After a great deal of unproductive negotiation, and remedial efforts by ourselves and other copyright holders, YouTube continues in its unlawful business model. Therefore, we must turn to the courts to prevent Google and YouTube from continuing to steal value from artists and to obtain compensation for the significant damage they have caused.”

(via “lost remote“)

6 Comments so far

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  4. Thomas Knüwer on March 15th, 2007

    Nö, wird nicht spannend. Rechtlich bewegt sich Youtube in sicherem Rahmen. Es wäre ein Prozess nötig, der bis zum obersten Gericht hochgeht um das Äquivalent der Forenhaftung zu beseitigen. Letztendlich gehts auch Viacom nur um eines: Geld in Form eines besseren Deals mit Youtube.

  5. nrq on March 22nd, 2007

    Interessant dazu eine Story bei Slashdot von gestern: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/20/158224 – ” iFilm Infringement Could Blunt Viacom’s YouTube Argument”, über Viacoms eigenen Youtube-klon iFilm, der sich wohl auch einen dreck um die Rechte dritter schert.

  6. nrq on March 22nd, 2007

    Hm, da denkt man, man schreibt was neues und dann hat der Kommentar eins weiter oben es schon in seinem Blog stehen. Naja. Das Internet ist ja sowas ähnliches wie eine riesengroße schlecht gepflegte Datenbank – und ab und zu mal kommen da eben auch redundanzen vor.

    Sorry. ;-)

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