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| QUOTE ("news.yahoo.com") |
| TOKYO (Reuters) - Executives of YouTube.com are to meet a group of Japanese media firms that complained to the video sharing Internet site over copyright infringement, the Japanese organization said. YouTube is to send a delegation to Japan in response to a letter from the Tokyo-based Japan Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers (JASRAC) complaining that it allowed users to post and view copyrighted TV shows, movie clips and music videos, the group said in a statement late on Tuesday. In the reply, signed by YouTube Chief Executive Chad Hurley and Chief Technical Officer Steve Chen, YouTube acknowledged that it needed to post a notice in Japanese on its Web site telling users not to upload copyrighted content. YouTube, owned by Google Inc., removed about 30,000 video files from its Web site after receiving a demand in October from the Japanese media group and 22 other firms including public broadcaster NHK, major film studios, and Web rivals such as Yahoo Japan Corp.. The files had been posted without the permission of copyright holders, the group said. The date of the meeting between YouTube executives and the Japanese group has yet to be decided. |
| QUOTE (ANN.com) |
| "FUNimation has also contacted YouTube and is utilizing YouTube's Content Verification Tool and has submitted over 2,000 videos for removal because of invalid copyright permssion," Senior Brand Manager Lance Heiskell tells ANN. |
| QUOTE ("www.jasrac.or.jp") |
| December 4, 2006 Mr. Chad Hurley, CEO Mr. Steve Chen, CTO YouTube, Inc. 1000 Cherry Avenue Second Floor San Bruno, CA 94066 USA We are right holders in Japanese audio-visual works and are associations of right holders as such. A large amount of audio-visual works are uploaded without right holders’ permission on your YouTube.com website, resulting in copyright infringement. To deal with this situation, we have been taking the “Notice and Takedown” procedures based on the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which imposes much time and effort on us. However, as a large number of audio-visual works are illegally uploaded despite our notices, we are seriously concerned about the current situation where the Notice and Takedown scheme, aimed to prevent copyright infringements, is not functioning well due to the large volume of illegal uploads. Taking into account the current status of your service, we believe that your company should not just wait for right owners to take the “Notice and Takedown” procedures but should bear the responsibility to prevent, in advance, copyright infringements such as illegal uploads and distributions, or to avoid those infringements. We hereby request you to implement an infringement-preventive system, which eliminates copyright infringement by employing various technologies of today and the efforts of the website operator, and which identifies and indicates uploaded works from legitimate right holders. While we expect you to promptly take adequate and necessary measures to prevent copyright infringement on the YouTube website, until you do so, we request you to take provisional measures, including but not limited to those listed below, in order to prevent illegal uploads of audio-visual works, which copyrights are neither owned by the persons posting the works on the website themselves nor licensed by right owners: 1. Indicate on the top page of the YouTube website, in Japanese, that “Posting or uploading audio-visual works, which copyrights are neither owned by yourselves nor licensed by right owners, is illegal, and such act may impose you civil and/or criminal liability.” *If necessary, we will provide the Japanese text. 2. Register the names and addresses of those users making uploads and to keep such records. 3. Terminate the user accounts of those who illegally uploaded audio-visual works deleted on and after June 2006 upon our requests and to not allow them to make further uploads. We kindly request you respond to this letter no later than December 15, 2006. Please send your reply to : Network Section, Transmission Rights Department, JASRAC, 3-6-12 Uehara, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, 151-8540 Japan. We appreciate your cooperation in this matter. Sincerely yours, Junichi Shinsaka Secretary General Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan, Inc. Nobuyoshi Sakai Deputy General Manager General Administration Japan Video Software Association Shiro Aono Chairman Copyright Committee The Association of Japanese Animations (AJA) Takeshi Inagaki Secretary General Association of All Japan TV Program Production Companies (ATP) Ryohei Ishii Director Copyright & Contracts Division Rights & Archives Center Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) Jun Takeuchi Director Digital, Broadcast Promotion Division The National Association of Commercial Broadcasters in Japan Hikaru Sasao General Manager Rights & Contracts Management Compliance & Standards Division Nippon Television Network Corporation Ryuichi Fukao Director Legal & Business Affairs Broadcast Content & Rights Management Center Headquarters Programming and Production Tokyo Broadcasting System, Inc Shinya Chiba Senior Director Copyrights Intellectual Properties Center Fuji Television Network, Inc. Hideo Takahashi Contract & Copyright Department (Deputy General Manager, Programming & Entertainment Division) TV Asahi Corporation Tomoyuki Ikeda Manager Copyright Department Programming Division TV Tokyo Corporation Yasuyoshi Yamashita Manager Righs Business Department Television Kanagawa, Inc. Yoshio Yamamoto Bureau Chief Special Events & Digital Media Bureau Asahi Broadcasting Corporation Kenichi Kameda General Manager Broadcast Standards, Rights & Contracts Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation Tadashi Nagae General Manager Copyright Management Department Tokai Television Broadcasting Co.Ltd. Masashi Kondo Copyright Division Director Japan Satellite Broadcasting Association Masashi Kondo General Manager Multiwindow Contents & Copyrights Department Space Shower Networks inc. Yoshinori Itou Section Chief Broadcast Planning and programming Division Department of Broadcasting The University of the Air Foundation Fuminori Nakagawa Acting Manager Strategy Legal Affairs Dept. Association of Copyright for Computer Software(ACCS) Hideki Matsutake Director Executive Committee Center for Performances’ Rights Administration(CPRA) Kenji Takasugi Secretary General Director & General Manager Legal Department Recording Industry Association of Japan(RIAJ) Naoya Bessho Chief Compliance Officer & VP Legal Department Yahoo! JAPAN Corporation Satoshi Watanabe Manager Transmission Rights Department Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers(JASRAC) |
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| QUOTE (CxNi @ December 22, 2006 05:59 am) |
| ehmm... now they sue youtube.com i think they will sue crunchyroll.com as well hahahahha |