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"Video-sharing site Dailymotion has just gotten a healthy slap on the wrists with a court order to pay damages to a French director for carrying a copyrighted clip of his film.\nA Paris court has deemed Dailymotion's involvement unlawful, as a clip from French indie film \"Joyeux Noel\" was found on the site. Dailymotion was order to pay the director, Christian Carion, EUR 1 (for symbolic purposes), while producers, Nord-Ouest received $17,914 and distributors UGC got $13,780 in damages.  The site was also ordered to publish the full ruling on its website for eight days, and to also remove the clip, effective immediately.   \nAt least Dailymotion has taken precautions to avoid a similar circumstance from occuring in the future.  The video-sharing site has recently signed on Audible Magic for copyright detection services for all content that's uploaded to the site.  Despite Dailymotion's copyright and prohibited content notices on the site, the court ruled against them nevertheless.  Could this indicate potential trouble for YouTube, which is in a similar, sticky situation.  \nIt seems that some European countries are often more harsh with user-generated content sites, and that doesn't fare well for the class action lawsuit building up against YouTube.  It did, however, get some good news from the EU earlier this week, regarding the manner in which its content will be regulated in comparison to broadcast television. Perhaps Dailymotion will fare better with its recent emergence in the US.\n[via]"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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