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Veoh sues Universal Music before Universal can sue Veoh
Video sharing sites like Youtube and Veoh have become easy targets for lawsuits from content owners. But when Universal Music threatened to file a suit against Veoh, CEO Steve Mitgang he didn't want to wait for Universal to follow through on that threat. Instead, Veoh filed a preemptive suit against Universal.Basically, Mitgang's position is that Veoh is protected by the DMCA's safe harbor provision. In other words, the company can't be held responsible for every users who uploads copyright infringing content to the site -- as long as Veoh agrees to take action if alerted to illegal material.
Veoh is asking the court to issue an injunction that would prevent Universal from suing Veoh. If this works, we could see a lot of other companies following suit. But as much as they'd like to, we can't exactly see Daily Motion, Metacafe, and others filing preemptive suits against every content owner in the world. Our guess is they'll need a reasonable basis for their suits (like threats from Universal Music) if they don't want to be laughed out of court.
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Steve said 9:45PM on 8-23-2007
I just noticed that my Veoh browser add-on has just stopped working.... ie it doesn't offer to download anymore.... is this to do with the law suits i wonder...
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Cultadium said 1:18PM on 10-15-2007
I think it has to do with Veoh forcing everyone to get Veoh TV beta. Which is a big issue right now for people who can't get it to work right. It's working for me though (and probably most people) so I don't care :)
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