UMG darf Material von YouTube entfernen, auch wenn es keinerlei Rechte daran hat

Im Zuge der Megauploadvideo-Geschichte ist ein interessanter Aspekt ans Licht gekommen. UMG, das Majormusiklabel, welches das Megaupload-Video hat von YouTube entfernen lassen, hat ein gesondertes Abkommen mit YouTube-Inhaber Google, das es dem Label erlaubt, auch Material zu entfernen, an dem es keinerlei Rechte hält.

Torrentfreak:

But while one might naturally expect that UMG made a legitimate DMCA takedown complaint (and one that has legal implications should it be wrongfully made) Universal insists that was never necessary.

“The UMG-YouTube agreement grants UMG rights to effect the removal of user-posted videos through YouTube’s Content Management System (‘CMS’), based on a number of contractually specified criteria that are not limited to the infringements of copyrights owned or controlled by UMG,” the record label states in its filing.

What that means, in case the preceding paragraph wasn’t clear enough, is that UMG has a private outside-the-DMCA agreement with YouTube that it can take down other people’s content from YouTube even when it doesn’t infringe their copyrights.

Indeed, in UMG’s 18-page filing not once does the company give any reason or even a hint why it had Megaupload’s Mega Song taken down from YouTube. At no point does UMG claim that the video infringed its copyrights and the previous claim, that the video featured one of its artists, is completely absent.

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Und das bereits ohne ACTA, SOPA und ähnliches.