Scouta Being Sued by Youtube over White Stripes Music

According to techcrunch, the sharing site Scouta is being sued for by Youtube over an alleged infringement of copyright regarding a White Stripes current record label considering the fact that it was only uploaded to Youtube by the rights holder.

The DMCA, as it is known, has a number of different parts. One part is the anticircumvention provisions, which make it illegal to "circumvent" a technological measure protecting access to or copying of a copyrighted work. Another part gives web hosts and Internet service providers a "safe harbor" from copyright infringement claims if they implement certain notice and takedown procedures,according to techcrunch.

In 1998, Congress passed the On-Line Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act (OCILLA) in an effort to protect service providers on the Internet from liability for the activities of its users. Codified as section 512 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), this new law exempts on-line service providers that meet the criteria set forth in the safe harbor provisions from claims of copyright infringement made against them that result from the conduct of their customers. These safe harbor provisions are designed to shelter service providers from the infringing activities of their customers. If a service provider qualifies for the safe harbor exemption, only the individual infringing customers are liable for monetary damages; the service provider's network through which they engaged in the alleged activities is not liable.