Movie Maker Successful: YouTube must delete TV docu-recording

TV recordings are not a rarity on YouTube - although they are copyright-illegal. Now, a documentary filmmaker has forced with the help of the AG documentary film court that YouTube must delete his user-edited and uploaded television film. PIC1L YouTube had not erased the film when the filmmaker had shown the offense, but the user to give opinions. The latter had indicated that he had become co-owner of the broadcasting film by paying the broadcasting contribution and thus had the right to redistribute this publicly. With this reason YouTube had then satisfied and left the film online - in the interest of (high-quality) and commercially viable content on the platform. So the case landed in court, whichDecided that YouTube violated the "reasonable expectations" because, according to the plaintiff's complaint, it did not do anything technically and economically reasonable to prevent further legal violations with regard to the protected works ". The operator of YouTube would have to "immediately ... be able to remove the representation of the work or block the access once they had acquired the necessary knowledge" without further testing "since the payment of GEZ fees obviously not This is a good news for filmmakers, as they do not take the risk that their complete film will be distributed via YouTube and that they are free to use Bild zur Newsmeldung:  more infos at bei agdok.de deutsche Version dieser Seite: Filmer-Klage erfolgreich: YouTube muß TV-Doku-Mitschnitt löschen