Source: CNET
Summary
A jury has ruled that Meta and YouTube will have to pay $3 million in damages. The lawsuit claimed that the companies had hosted and profited from videos that infringed on the plaintiffs’ copyrights. The plaintiffs, who were not named in the report, reportedly uploaded their content to the platforms and had it pirated and reuploaded by other users.
Our Reading
The announcement sounds ambitious.
Meta and YouTube are being held liable for copyright infringement on their platforms. The $3 million in damages is a drop in the bucket for these tech giants. The decision raises questions about the responsibility of social media companies to police their content. It’s a familiar story: platforms profit from user-generated content, but don’t always take responsibility for it. “Because nothing says ‘innovation’ like getting sued for the same thing every year.”
Author: Evan Null
