Sat, December 09, 2006
Well, it looks like Disney has had it with YouTube. According to Reuters, "A senior Walt Disney Co. executive said she sees limits to how long her company will tolerate copyright infringement of its programming by users of Google's online video sharing site YouTube." Video sharing sites like YouTube hide behind the Digital Millennium Copyright Act which protects Web sites from liability for copyright infringement if they take down illegal material when notified. It's like a ‘virtual cease and desist’ I guess but it’s not long until this clearly becomes a much bigger problem for YouTube.
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