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News Bits: Veoh Wins DMCA Case

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Good news for video sites that rely on user-submitted video -- Veoh Networks Inc. was found not guilty of copyright infringement for content uploaded by its users.

The decision from U.S. District Court judge Howard Lloyd ruled against adult entertainment company IO Group, which had charged Veoh with copyright infringement after video clips from several of its movies appeared on the Veoh site. The key finding in the decision, according to TechCrunch, is Lloyd's ruling that transcoding isn't a crime.

So what does that mean for Veoh, YouTube Inc. , and other sites that accept user-submitted content? Michael Arrington suggests that they are protected under safe harbor provisions of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) so long as they: provide notice to users that uploading copyrighted material is prohibited, take measures against infringing users, and promptly comply with DMCA takedown notices.

In other news:

  • Speaking of YouTube... The site just turned on a new feature that adds captioning to its videos, according to paidContent:UK. Apparently the new feature will allow video producers to offers subtitle translations in up to 120 languages.

  •  Despite an obituary that inadvertently ran on Bloomberg's news wires this morning, Steve Jobs is not dead yet, Gawker reports.

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