VIENNA: An Austrian court has ruled that video-sharing platform YouTube can be held partly liable for copyright breaches in videos uploaded by its users, in a ruling that may have far-reaching implications.
In a judgement issued on June 5 and confirmed to AFP on June 7, Vienna’s commercial court said that YouTube had played an active role in spreading such content and therefore could not claim the status of “neutral intermediary”, according to the ruling cited by the Ploil-Boesch law firm.
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