Veoh victory good for UGC
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
Video hosting site Veoh won another legal victory during the holidays in a lawsuit over hosting uploaded copyrighted content.
According to Fred von Lohmann of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the victory over Universal Music Group should “put to rest the argument that transcoding and other activities necessary for making content accessible on the web are not covered by” DMCA safe harbour provisions for storing material on behalf of users. (more…)
