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GEMA demands YouTube pay €1.6 mln in damages
Published: 11 Jan 13 13:01 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/sci-tech/20130111-47273.html
Germany's music royalties authority GEMA has declared that negotiations with YouTube have broken down, and wants to haul the internet video platform before the arbitration board at the German Patent and Trademark Office.
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In addition, GEMA is demanding that YouTube take down the on-screen notice blocking music videos in Germany that blames GEMA for the impasse. In November last year, GEMA head Harald Heker accused YouTube of deliberately misleading German users with the notice.
"The notice about GEMA is being posted wilfully, purely to stir opinion," he told WirtschaftsWoche magazine at the time. "YouTube is trying to awaken the false impression that the failure to license is GEMA's responsibility. That is simply wrong."
The last agreement between GEMA and YouTube ran out in March 2009, since when most music videos on the site have been blocked in Germany. "Up till January 2013, despite efforts on both sides, no agreement could be found on the question of the service's copyright responsibility for the content put online, nor on the amount of remuneration," GEMA's statement said. "Therefore GEMA is now taking the first measures to secure appropriate compensation for the copyright holders."
A Hamburg court is already arbitrating another row between GEMA and YouTube over how the platform should be defined. GEMA claims that YouTube is a content provider whose business model is built on content that is subject to royalties. YouTube, on the other hand, says it is a hosting service which simply makes space available to its users.
The distinction is legally important as a content provider is responsible for making sure that the content on its site does not break any laws.
For its part, YouTube owners Google had already declared at the end of last year that the talks had broken.
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BTW the GEMA block is easy to get around if you want to...
@keeps71, how do you get around the block?
you can get Netflex ect.
I was using DT as a provider but found they were slow, switched to Cabel Deutschland and it rocks,,
Sooo many videos blocked which are about something else entirely but the have music on them, so you don't see anything. Back then, I could at least watch what the video was about.
Rightly said, GEMA is a money hungry, greedy bunch of !@#$%^ who like many other groups in Germany are trying to suck the German residents of their right to do anything!!! Democracy? Yea right...
I sent GEMA an email the other day letting them know exactly what I think of their extortion / protection racket,.
Via the medium of colourful language I also informed them that EVERY time I see a GEMA blocked song, I download it and send it to as many torrent sites as I can.
Parasites.
This may not be the same subject but on the same theme,you ran a article called
"Parents not liable if kids download illegally"
Published: 16 Nov 12 .
Could you please look into this again as I believe many courts are not following what you reported this is a important issue and you could clear it up for me.
GEMA are just contemptible blocking things they have no right to touch ,I am waiting for W.A. to make his comment and I know I'll agree and support him.
wa
F*ck you, pay me.
And why not?
Incidentally, almost all the money these organizations collect is effectively for foreign content.
You could also use Ultrasurf, it is free and just for youtube and Hulu, it does the job. I wouldn´t use it on anything that you have to give a password to as they probably sniff packets but, just to watch videos it is ok. (also, if you get a warning on Hulu that you are hidden, just click on a different server to bypass it). As i said, no passwords.
I hadn't even seen your comment when I posted mine, but thanks for the support nonetheless. Good timing I guess. Have a guten Tag.
wa
That is probably why ' this video contenet is not currently available in your country'....LOL !!!!!!!
WAKE UP artists, GEMA is killing your career.
by switching your IP location with VPN (i.e. UK, US, NL etc).
I can suggest HMA (~$8-11 per month) or seed4.me (~$3 per month + free week).
@whiteriver don't be fooled by free 'unblock' addons and software,
thease are most likely adware or spyware.