Ultimately, he thinks what DailyMotion is offering is more valuable to filmmakers than crowdfunding.
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One telling precedent may be a recent case in a French court against the video site, Dailymotion.
Dailymotion has already begun using copyright filtering provided by a partnership with Audible Magic, a Los Gatos, Calif.
's MySpace, Google Video and DailyMotion, keeping them in a searchable iTunes-style library.
Mullen also argued that Dailymotion's copyright-infringing content is a problem of the past.
Plus, FiOS TV DVR subscribers can search and enjoy online videos from blip.tv, Dailymotion and Veoh on their home-entertainment systems.
Meanwhile, other video sites including Dailymotion, MSN's Soapbox and Myspace have all employed Audible Magic to filter all uploaded content.
She added that the ruling will do more to publicize Dailymotion's continuing progress in controlling piracy than to punish the company financially.
Like Vimeo, DailyMotion was inspired in part by the massive role that Kickstarter has come to play in funding independent creative projects.
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Viacom has sued Google for insufficiently policing its copyrighted content, and both MySpace and DailyMotion have recently announced tighter filters on their content.
's (nyse: NWS - news - people ) MySpace, Google Video and DailyMotion, keeping them in a searchable iTunes-style library.
The decision, which Dailymotion may appeal, could also be bad news for Google, says Ken Boehm, chairman of the National Legal and Policy Center.
In addition to Spotify and WD's current content offerings, WD TV Live and WD TV Live Hub will also now include the Dailymotion video service.
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It's revealing that Mr. Montebourg referred to Dailymotion as a startup.
Google faces a billion-dollar lawsuit from Viacom over copyright-infringing clips uploaded to YouTube, and the Dailymotion case may demonstrate that copyright infringement can be punished retroactively.
Alluc.org, for instance, links to Lost episodes on Veoh, Scrubs episodes on LiveDigital and kung-fu movies on DailyMotion, bringing in about 500, 000 unique visitors a day.
The news follows an announcement earlier this week that another user-uploaded video site, Paris-based DailyMotion, will also be using Audible Magic to filter out copyrighted materials.
Video sites like Dailymotion and Veoh participated in the partnership.
The court ruled that Dailymotion must pay a symbolic one euro to Christian Carion, the director of the film Joyeux Noel, as well as 23, 000 euros to the film's distributors.
Dailymotion, a Paris-based video Web site that has served as one of the Web's biggest sources of full-length copyrighted TV shows and movies, may be discovering the price of piracy.
In a statement, Dailymotion's Executive Vice President of International Operations Catherine Mullen was optimistic about the ruling, pointing out that it treated Dailymotion as a hosting company rather than a publishing company.
Viacom (nyse: VIA - news - people ) has sued Google for insufficiently policing its copyrighted content, and both MySpace and DailyMotion have recently announced tighter filters on their content.
The decision, which Dailymotion may appeal, could also be bad news for Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ), says Ken Boehm, chairman of the National Legal and Policy Center.
Carion's film was first discovered on Dailymotion's servers in February, and though it was taken down at the copyright holders' request, it was later re-uploaded by users and again removed, according to Dailymotion spokesman Ephraim Cohen.
Google faces a billion-dollar lawsuit from Viacom (nyse: VIA - news - people ) over copyright-infringing clips uploaded to YouTube, and the Dailymotion case may demonstrate that copyright infringement can be punished retroactively.
To what degree the French ruling will apply to Google and Dailymotion's operations isn't clear: User-generated video sites in the U.S. are protected by the "safe harbor" provision of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act of 1999.
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