• T-Series, YouTube in Legal Wrangle

    T-Series, YouTube in Legal Wrangle

    Techtree News Staff, Nov 10, 2007 1601 hrs IST

    The restraint order implies that YouTube and Google will now have to actively go about preventing users from uploading T-Series content onto the YouTube Web site.

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YouTube is in the dock; once again for copyright infringement.

Super Cassettes Industries Limited (SCIL), also known as T-Series, has moved the Delhi High Court, and obtained an interim restraint order against YouTube and its parent company, Google, for 'rank infringement of music copyright'.

The court order restrains YouTube and Google from "disseminating or displaying on their Web sites, or infringing in any manner, the copyright of any audio-visual work of which SCIL owns exclusive copyright".

Amit Sibal, counsel for T-Series, argued in court that YouTube, which makes audio-visual content available for free, makes its money through advertisements and 'recording clicks' for a share of advertiser spends. But that none of this money goes to copyright owners.

Now YouTube typically follows a policy, wherein it pulls down copyrighted content whenever notified by copyright owners. However, there is no moderation of content before the content is put up.

The restraint order however implies that YouTube and Google will now have to actively go about preventing users from uploading T-Series content onto the YouTube Web site.

In the event the order should become a permanent injunction, it would impact other Indian video sites as well -- iShare, Dekhona, thebig.tv, to name a few.

Meanwhile, YouTube, by its own previous admission, is preparing to launch a content identification system that will afford copyright owners a certain degree of control over their content.

The upcoming automated video ID system will check all videos as they are being uploaded, and match them with a ready database of visual representations of copyrighted material, as provided by respective content owners.

Depending on the policy specified by a particular content owner, upon finding a match, the video ID system will either block the content, or post it, or put adverts on it with revenue to be shared with the content owner.

The catch though is that the system will require content owners to provide YouTube with copies of content that they wish to protect.

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Nayeem
,Bangalore, on Mar 18, 2008 04:58 PM
Yea go ahead and fine them, but be sure to shell out cash for all those pirated mp3s you have on your computer also. if someone misuses the services provided by google, its not googles fault entirely, you cant expect them to sit and verify a thousand videos per day without a few getting thru. Atleast they admit it and act on it when brought to their attention....appreciate that.
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Nayeem
,Bangalore, on Mar 18, 2008 04:56 PM
There is a lot of grey areas in this arena. we get to see a lot of old film songs on YouTube. It is not for Google to find a solution. There is need to bring up a conclusive policy. As to punishing Google, it should then start with punishing all computer owners in India
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GAURAV SHARMA
,DELHI, on Nov 10, 2007 07:23 PM
HAaa T-SERIES , THE PAST OF THIS COMPANY HIMSELF IS NOT THAT CLEAN WHY THEY ARE PUTTING THIS KINDA NONSENSE NOTICES TO YOUTUBE .THEIR OWN PAST (FORMATION OF THIS COMPANY) IS BASED ON PIRACY & THE SONGS SUNG BUY DUPLICATE SINGERS (THEY FOUND LEGAL WAYS TO MAKE LIE A TRUTH). THAT BAD
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VitthalKulkarni
,bangalore, on Nov 13, 2007 12:04 PM
Yes Gaurav u r right... T-Series is not have any moral to put this notices
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soulseeker
,philly, on Nov 14, 2007 08:02 PM
seemslike t-series has finally found a "business vertical" to shore up its flagging bottomline in the last quarter .. insane litigation !!! once the monopoly of flipped out farmers and smarmy landsharks .. T-series' latest foray into the litigation vertical bodes well for ambulance chasing lawyers and court typists.. incidentally it also marks t-series foray into the inkjet printer business.. for as God is my witness , we know the paperwork thats going to be involved for nothing at all :P
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GIJO
,BANGALORE, on Nov 13, 2007 04:18 PM
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Ved
,Victoria Institutions, on Nov 13, 2007 08:34 AM
There is a lot of grey areas in this arena. we get to see a lot of old film songs on YouTube. It is not for Google to find a solution. There is need to bring up a conclusive policy. As to punishing Google, it should then start with punishing all computer owners in India, for it is common knowledge that almost all use pirated software.
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Birender Singh
,Hyderabad, on Nov 12, 2007 01:39 PM
yes the revenew to be shared with the copyrights owner, becasue owner have the full rights on its content and if any one used his/her content without taking any permission from the owner then its a crim and needs to punished. and their punishment is to share the renew with the T Series.
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jghy
,jghy, on Nov 12, 2007 04:46 PM
Then punish the guy who uploaded the content ,how does google or youtube know what t-series is ..... of course unlike desi sites google is kind enough to remove content whenever we complain ...by your logic even ISP's and cyber cafe owners should be arrested ....
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Amit
,India, on Nov 13, 2007 12:37 AM
Yea go ahead and fine them, but be sure to shell out cash for all those pirated mp3s you have on your computer also. if someone misuses the services provided by google, its not googles fault entirely, you cant expect them to sit and verify a thousand videos per day without a few getting thru. Atleast they admit it and act on it when brought to their attention....appreciate that.
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