Jun 10, 2008 • 1 min read

Indian label gets injunction against Yahoo! India

Super Cassettes Industries has obtained an interim injunction from the Delhi High Court against Yahoo! and its Indian subsidiary over unlicensed content posted on its servers.

Super Cassettes Industries, who own Mumbai based Bollywood film company and record label T-Series, has obtained an interim injunction from the Delhi High Court against Yahoo! and its Indian subsidiary regarding the unlicensed posting of their content on Yahoo! servers, presumably Yahoo!'s video sharing platform. SCI got a similar injunction against Google and YouTube last year.

Yahoo! are yet to respond to the injunction, though SCI say that when they first approached the web firm about their copyright concerns earlier in the year they pleaded the usual "we'll remove it if you say, so that's not infringement" defence used by all the video sharing websites in these circumstances. It's a defence offered by the US's Digital Millennium Copyright Act, though one that has not really been tested in court because most major web sharing sites reach deals with most major content owners before the latter's threats of copyright infringement action get to court.

However, MTV's action against Google in the US is still heading to court, and the SCI/Yahoo! case is due to go before the Indian courts in September, so the defence may as yet be tested both in the US and elsewhere.

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