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YouTube Legally Considered a TV Station In Italy

Posted by Soulskill on from the legislation-to-facilitate-prosecution dept.

orzetto writes "Italian newspaper La Repubblica reports that YouTube and similar websites based on user-generated content will be considered TV stations (Google translation of Italian original) in Italian law, and will be subject to the same obligations. Among these, a small tax (500 €), the obligation to publish corrections within 48 hours upon request of people who consider themselves slandered by published content, and the obligation not to broadcast content inappropriate for children in certain time slots. The main change, though, is that YouTube and similar sites will be legally responsible for all published content as long as they have any form (even if automated) of editorial control. The main reason for this is probably that it will force YouTube to assume editorial responsibility for all published content, which facilitates the ongoing € 500M lawsuit of Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi against YouTube because of content copyrighted by Berlusconi's TV networks that some users uploaded on YouTube. Berlusconi's Spanish TV station, TeleCinco, was previously defeated in court on the grounds that YouTube is not a content provider."

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  1. Take that Italy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    In America, Dominos is legally considered pizza.

    1. Re:Take that Italy by Yvan256 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Maybe, but you better be careful. If one Dominos restaurant ever goes down, they will all follow very quickly.

  2. Re:When did Italy turn into by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    In 1946.

    (it was a banana kingdom before that)

  3. Re:When did Italy turn into by kyrio · · Score: 5, Funny

    Where can I purchase your bottled mind?

  4. 49 BC by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    When Caesar crossed the Rubicon.

  5. Re:When did Italy turn into by santax · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ah, it's a nice change from the media owning the president :)

  6. Re:TV by TaoPhoenix · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sudo Youtube is a TV Station.

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    My first Journal Entry ever, in 8 years! http://slashdot.org/journal/365947/aphelion-scifi-fantasy-horror-poetry-webzine
  7. Re:This is what happens... by ikkonoishi · · Score: 2, Funny

    In Parliamentary Italy the President owns the media, but in America the media owns the President!