Courts to Rule on Fan-created Music Videos
Posted by Jeffrey Millan in Jeff Millan
According to a article on Yahoo! News, there are cases winding their way through courts that deal with fan-created online videos that contain music in them. Large music labels such as Caroline, EMI, and Virgin are bringing law suits to the courts against online video sharing sites like Vimeo.com. They are stating that sites like Vimeo.com are performing copyright infringement by encouraging users to upload videos that contain professionally produced music. So if a user uploads a video they created, but uses a song from Lil' Wayne as their background music, the video sharing site is committing copyright infringement by allowing this.
YouTube, the online video sharing giant, has already struck deals with major music labels to split the revenue with them after users upload their videos. The thought here is that uploading such videos on YouTube will promote music label's artist and generate revenue for them and YouTube. According to the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA), YouTube has kept itself safe by following provisions in the DMCA that if a site promptly removes videos upon receipt of takedown notices from content owners they are ok.
To read more follow the link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100116/en_nm/us_copyright