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Is there copyright infringing content on Kiss website?
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 10 November 2010
TechDirt has noticed that some of the videos on Kiss’s official website, which are powered by YouTube, have been disabled because of copyright claims.
Several of those claims come from a US DVD company called S’More Entertainment, which presumably own rights in some Kiss video content and which issues take-down notices against YouTube whenever its content appears on the video sharing site. Even if it’s been uploaded, or at least embedded, by Live Nation’s Signature Networks, the company that runs the official Kiss website, Kiss Online.
While there may well be simple misunderstandings behind all of this, given Kiss man Gene Simmon’s recent comments that the US record industry should have sued every single kid who ever illegally shared music on the net, it would be amusing if Kiss’s own people have been infringing copyrights in Kiss recordings on their own website.
