German court rules against YouTube in rights case
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German news agency dapd reported that the Hamburg state court on Friday mostly sided with Germany's GEMA, which represents about 60,000 German writers and musicians.
GEMA took Google Inc.'s YouTube unit to court over 12 temporarily uploaded music videos for which no royalties were paid.
YouTube has maintained that it bears no legal responsibility for the uploaded content - saying it checks and sometimes blocks content when users alert the firm about alleged violations of laws.
It was not immediately clear whether the ruling will be appealed.
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- Youtube is an American company on American soil. If the German courts have an issue with content they should rule that Youtube be blocked in Germany. And good luck with that.... :-)
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- How binding is a German court ruling to a USA website anyway? If Germany keeps pushing this, YouTube should pull out.
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