Veoh and Universal Music Group’s (UMG) ongoing legal battle over copyright infringement took another step towards siding with Veoh this week. The U.S. Central District Court of California dismissed the charge that the people funding the Veoh, an online video sharing website, are responsible for the copyright infringement happening on the website. This is the second time in as many months that the ruling went in favour of the defendants. (more…)

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…)