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The silver lining in Dailymotion’'s copyright cloud (TGI Paris 13 juillet 2007)

By Nicolas Jondet

ABSTRACT*: Dailymotion, a French video-sharing website, recently received bad news on the judicial front. This summer, it was sentenced by a Paris court to pay ?23,001 ($33,400) in damages for the copyright infringement of the movie ?Joyeux Noël?, an unauthorized copy of which had been made available on the website by an internet user. [1] [2] The court asserted that the hosting provider, because it had enabled and thrived on mass piracy, was under a general obligation to implement technical m read more

Full post as published by French-law.net on March 16, 2008 (boomark / email).