Mediaset wins the lawsuit against Yahoo Italia: the search engine has been condemned and will have to pay a penalty because, according to the court, there was copyright infringement.
Yahoo Italia will have to compensate Mediaset: the Court of Milan has ruled on the case between the two companies. The proceedings began after Mediaset’s complaint which alerted the judiciary to the presence of copyrighted videos on the Yahoo search engine, in the “Yahoo! Video” section.
The judge ruled that Yahoo broke copyright law and therefore ordered the payment of a fine which, if confirmed, should amount to 250 euros for each day each infringing video was present on Yahoo. Obviously, the other condition to be respected is the removal of the videos themselves.
A figure that is only apparently small, but considering the number of videos present and the days they remained online, the penalty becomes quite substantial.
However, to fully quantify the compensation, we will have to wait about a month: the next hearing to establish this is scheduled for October 18th.
Although the videos were uploaded by users and not directly by Yahoo, as Mediaset stated, “the direct responsibility of providers in case of unauthorized dissemination of copyrighted content has been established.” This is reported in the press release that Mediaset issued as a comment to the sentence, adding that “this decision, by reaffirming a fundamental legal principle, constitutes another decisive step towards the protection of all publishers who invest in the production of original content and the authors who generate it”.
The affair obviously opens a new chapter and a precedent for cases of this kind that could also be brought against other entities, such as Youtube, for example.
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