Copyleft: the magazine

Apparently sporting one of the busiest legal departments in the music biz, Universal was in the news again this week, this time suing video sharing site Veoh with “massive copyright violation” for hosting vids that might maybe have Universal’s copyrighted audio or video. This case, not unlike the now legendary Viacom v. YouTube, has the makings of another nasty showdown between content distributors (Viacom, Google and YouTube) and those who claim to represent content creators (Universal, Viacom and the RIAA/MPAA). As with the YouTube lawsuit, Veoh claims that they aren’t responsible for what people upload since they respond to all DCMA take-down requests. Ironically, it has been relatively widely reported that Universal has never sent any take-down notices to Veoh, but instead went straight for the jugular. The way this one goes down is going to probably depend greatly on the results of the YouTube case. We’ll keep you posted.

(via Wired and Ars Technica)

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