Disconnect YouTube Responsible for User Content in German, Can Big Loss

YouTube may be facing a huge lawsuit royalties if the latest decision of the courts in Germany to be applied. According to the court, Youtube can be held responsible for the content uploaded and posted on video sharing sites.

The lawsuit was filed by GEMA, a music royalty collection agency in Germany, which represents more than 60,000 writers and musicians in Germany. This suit was filed on 12 music video content is uploaded the user but without paying royalties.

The court ruling, Youtube could be forced to pay royalties to the owners of the music video uploaded and found to violate copyright. Company purchased by Google could be sued if it put the video without permission from the copyright owner. However, the court noted that Youtube is not obligated to control the content of all the videos uploaded to the site.

Other court decisions is the command for Youtube to put words based filter. Installation is intended to strengthen the system of content filtering violations in the future so that the work of others can be avoided. Youtube own party warned that this move will slow down the upload is not too good for non-professional journalists who usually rely on the news coming from the user.

Youtube Party said in court that they should not be responsible for the content that users uploaded.Youtube says that they have a new copyright filter that can detect sophisticated and remove content that violates of the site. Youtube also has kepda warn users if they violate copyright. It said in a previous trial that Youtube will memblik content when users and rights holders to give warning to Youtube for infringing content.

Youtube is expected to appeal against this decision. Youtube party also said it remains committed to finding a solution to music licensing issues in Germany that will benefit artists, composers, authors, publishers and labels, as well as the wider community of Youtube. Interpretation of this trial will make user-created content is more difficult to operate. This will create confusion not only for Youtube, but also for creative services on the Internet for insisting on content filtering for all content that the user entered.

If the decision is in force then there will be millions of music video is affected. Google will eventually have to spend a lot of money to be paid to the music industry on this important decision of the case.

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