Spain’s Telecinco TV channel has claimed victory in its legal case against YouTube. The formal result is not yet out but, citing “judicial sources”, Telecinco says a Madrid court granted an injunction to stop the video site distributing its shows “without express authorisation”.
The national network brought the case last month, arguing YouTube was hurting it by airing episodes of popular TV shows to which it has rights before it shows them in Spain (ie. US drama imports).
A YouTube spokesperson told paidContent:UK: “We have not yet received an official decision from the judge, but YouTube respects the legal rights of copyright holders. Rather than filing legal motions, we are happy to work with any content owners to remove their content. We have hundreds of partners in Europe and thousands around the world who take advantage of the latest technologies we have developed to help them effectively protect and manage their content on the site.”
YouTube had said earlier said the TV channel hadn
I think that this will become an increasingly big problem for youtube, its a shame really.
anyway i am a big fan of youtube, I never thought that youtube have this big issue lately,
Everybody will want a slice of the youtube pie in the future..I see TF1 was next.
And these are also big guys,who have a real chance to win the trials.
This is and will be a huge problem for Youtube – copyright infringement. I don't know how they will survive in the future with their current business model.