![]() ![]() I don’t see an assertion that youtube-dl is an infringing work. John Bergmayer, Legal Director at Public Knowledge, said that it was not an assertion that youtube-dl is an infringing work but the RIAA claim is that it’s illegal. Microsoft’s GitHub considered/converted the letter into a DMCA notice and disabled youtube-dl and seventeen other repositories mentioned in the letter. That has also been used in the notice to make a case against youtube-dl. The README of youtube-dl had mentioned downloading videos of Justin Timberlake, Taylor Swift etc in the command usage examples. The letter mentioned how the GitHub repository of youtube-dl mentions that it is a program for downloading videos from the YouTube. We note that the source code is described on GitHub as “a command-line program to download videos from and a few more sites.”” “The clear purpose of this source code is to (i) circumvent the technological protection measures used by authorized streaming services such as YouTube, and (ii) reproduce and distribute music videos and sound recordings owned by our member companies without authorization for such use. RIAA’s letter against youtube-dlĪs per the letter sent by RIAA, it accused youtube-dl of infringing upon the rights of its members. There is also a provision of counter notice where the other party can challenge the takedown. Upon receiving the DMCA takedown notice, the hosting service may disable/delete the webpage (or entire website). If the rightful owner of content (video, audio, text) believes that a certain webpage is using (or enabling others to use) the content without authorization (infringing upon the rights of the content owner), the owner can send a DMCA takedown notice to the hosting service. ![]() ![]() DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) is a US copyright law regarding copyright and the internet. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |