At Ars Technica, Tim Lee has the report
on a disturbing lawsuit, now joined by the Motion Picture Association
of America, which would make simply embedding videos—not hosting them—a
copyright infringement. The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals is
considering appeals by Google, Facebook, the Electronic Frontier
Foundation and Public Knowledge of a decision made by a federal judge
last year that it is "possible to directly infringe copyright by
embedding an image or video hosted by a third party."
"Although there is nothing inherently insidious about embedded links, this technique is very commonly used to operate infringing internet video sites," the organization writes. "Pirate sites can offer extensive libraries of popular copyrighted content without any hosting costs to store content, bandwidth costs to deliver the content, and of course licensing costs to legitimately acquire the content." The MPAA also notes that embedding can enable sites to monetize infringing content by surrounding it with ads. [...]
Numerous websites embed content from third parties they have not personally inspected. Under the theory articulated by [Judge] Grady, and supported by the MPAA, these websites would be responsible for this content, exactly as if they had stored it on their own servers. This could create a serious disincentive for sites to allow users to post embedded content, hampering the convenience and user-friendliness of the Web
If this were to become law it would be the end of Social Media and would greatly impact artist working in any medium that were hoping for wide exposure as third parties would be unable to verify if they were in violation of the holders copyright. The MPAA working to destroy the internet. .
"Although there is nothing inherently insidious about embedded links, this technique is very commonly used to operate infringing internet video sites," the organization writes. "Pirate sites can offer extensive libraries of popular copyrighted content without any hosting costs to store content, bandwidth costs to deliver the content, and of course licensing costs to legitimately acquire the content." The MPAA also notes that embedding can enable sites to monetize infringing content by surrounding it with ads. [...]
Numerous websites embed content from third parties they have not personally inspected. Under the theory articulated by [Judge] Grady, and supported by the MPAA, these websites would be responsible for this content, exactly as if they had stored it on their own servers. This could create a serious disincentive for sites to allow users to post embedded content, hampering the convenience and user-friendliness of the Web
If this were to become law it would be the end of Social Media and would greatly impact artist working in any medium that were hoping for wide exposure as third parties would be unable to verify if they were in violation of the holders copyright. The MPAA working to destroy the internet. .
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