According to Reuters, the video-sharing platform was on
Tuesday handed victory in a ruling by Europe’s top court over breaches of the
EU copyright rules.
The court held that e-platforms can’t be held responsible
unless they failed to quickly block access to the content.
The case marked the latest development in a protracted
battle between Europe’s $1 trillion creative industry and the online platforms,
where the former had been seeking recompense for unauthorised works that are
uploaded.
Among the cases in the decade-old dispute is YouTube’s
tussle with Frank Peterson, a record producer who sought damages from the
platform over the re-uploading of recordings in 2008 over which he claimed to
hold the rights.
EU’s judgment also covered the case Elsevier, publishing
group, brought against the file-hosting service Cyando. In both cases, the
complainants said the platforms held the rights over the content that was made
available online by users.
The ECJ, however, ruled that YouTube and other platforms
could still be held liable if it “has specific knowledge that protected content
is available illegally on its platform and refrains from expeditiously deleting
it or blocking access to it.”
“As currently stands, operators of online platforms don’t,
in principle, themselves make a communication to the public of
copyright-protected content illegally posted online by users of those
platforms,” EU’s court of justice said.
“However, those operators do make such a communication in
breach of copyright where they contribute, beyond merely making those platforms
available, to giving access to such content to the public.”
The development is a win for content-sharing sites, which
have long been battling with artistes over how to compensate them fairly for
work that gets distributed on the site.
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