European Union Court Says YouTube Is Not Legally Liable When Users Upload Copyrighted Content
https://www.tubefilter.comYouTube has a court case that could help bolster its safe harbor efforts in the European Union.
In a June 22 judgment, the European Union Court of Justice ruled that YouTube is not legally liable when users upload copyrighted content like songs or movies, so long as it takes action to remove or block access to said content, Reuters reports.
But the decision is not without limits. In the ruling, judges wrote that sites can still be legally liable if they “contribute, beyond merely making those platforms available, to giving access to such content to the public.”
Platforms can also be liable if they don’t implement technology that seeks and removes copyrighted content uploaded by users, per Reuters.
