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investadult · 01-20-2007, 05:16 AM

GEMA obtains provisional orders against file exchange services

The German exploitation corporation GEMA obtained provisional orders at the regional court Cologne against the operators of the file exchange services rapidshare and rapidshare They are to have illegally used works from the GEMA repertoire. The services reproach storage capacities, so that users contents can feed and make publicly accessible for other users. GEMA speaker Hans ago TIG Geyer said opposite heise on-line, the services might not be resumed in the past form. In particular the society requires information of them now over it how

many works from the GEMA repertoire are reproached.

In particular the service rapidshare recruited according to GEMA occasionally thereby, from its memory is 15 million files callably. A license for this was not acquired however with the GEMA. RapidShare stated so far, the service does not have a knowledge of contents stored by users and can these also control. The regional court Cologne has legally nothing with the provisional orders however now made that the fact that the service operator does not stop contents, but these is high-loaded by users, to the fact changes clearly that the service operators are responsible for in the context of the service the taking place copyright infringements.

GEMA chairman of the board Harald Heker sees these decisions also for future handling ?Web-2.0-Diensten? like YouTube and MySpace of of great importance. They show according to Heker, ?that the bare shifting of the use actions to the users and the alleged uncontrollableness of the contents of the service operator does not relieve from its copyright responsibility for contents placed on its web page to the call?. (anw/c't)

01-20-2007, 05:16 AM
investadult Registered User Industry Role: Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 20	Rapidshare GEMA obtains provisional orders against file exchange services GEMA obtains provisional orders against file exchange services The German exploitation corporation GEMA obtained provisional orders at the regional court Cologne against the operators of the file exchange services rapidshare and rapidshare They are to have illegally used works from the GEMA repertoire. The services reproach storage capacities, so that users contents can feed and make publicly accessible for other users. GEMA speaker Hans ago TIG Geyer said opposite heise on-line, the services might not be resumed in the past form. In particular the society requires information of them now over it how many works from the GEMA repertoire are reproached. In particular the service rapidshare recruited according to GEMA occasionally thereby, from its memory is 15 million files callably. A license for this was not acquired however with the GEMA. RapidShare stated so far, the service does not have a knowledge of contents stored by users and can these also control. The regional court Cologne has legally nothing with the provisional orders however now made that the fact that the service operator does not stop contents, but these is high-loaded by users, to the fact changes clearly that the service operators are responsible for in the context of the service the taking place copyright infringements. GEMA chairman of the board Harald Heker sees these decisions also for future handling ?Web-2.0-Diensten? like YouTube and MySpace of of great importance. They show according to Heker, ?that the bare shifting of the use actions to the users and the alleged uncontrollableness of the contents of the service operator does not relieve from its copyright responsibility for contents placed on its web page to the call?. (anw/c't)