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The European Court of Justice in Luxembourg.
LONDON A long-running legal battle over whether online platforms like YouTube are liable for copyright infringement committed by their users has taken a fresh twist with the European Court of Justice ruling that platforms should not be held accountable for hosting unauthorized works in certain cases. As currently stands, the court said Tuesday (June 22), online platforms do not, in principle, make a communication to the public of copyright-protected content illegally posted online by users.
The ruling, which stems from a 2008 dispute between German music producer Frank Peterson and YouTube over unauthorized user uploads, appears to effectively clear the platform of directly infringing copyright and reaffirms its safe harbor protections. (The judgement also covers a separate action publishing group Elsevier brought against file-hosting service Cyando in 2013.)
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YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki points to improvements in the platform s policing of bad content, but there s a long road still ahead as legislators try to work out what they want.
The violative view rate (VVR) at YouTube has dropped over 70% since the end of 2017. That’s a new stat coming out of the firm’s quarterly transparency report and one that the company clearly hopes will fend of criticism about lack of vigilance around abuse of the platform by bad actors.
That VVR now stands at a rate of 16 views out of every 10,000 violate YouTube policies, according to CEO Susan Wojcicki, speaking at the World Economic Forum Global Technology Governance Summit this week. That’s an important milestone, she feels:
Introduction
The Internet promised to lower barriers to expression. Anyone with access to a computer and an Internet connection could share their creativity with the world. And it worked spurring, among other things, the emergence of a new type and generation of art and criticism: the online creator independent from major labels, movie studios, or TV networks.
However, that promise is fading once again, because while these independent creators need not rely on Hollywood, they are bound to another oligopoly the few Internet platforms that can help them reach a broad audience. And in the case of those who make videos, they are largely dependent on just one platform: YouTube.