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“The UMG-YouTube agreement grants UMG rights to effect the removal of user-posted videos through YouTube’s Content Management System (‘CMS’), based on a number of contractually specified criteria that are not limited to the infringements of copyrights owned or controlled by UMG,” the record label states in its filing.
What that means, in case the preceding paragraph wasn’t clear enough, is that UMG has a private outside-the-DMCA agreement with YouTube that it can take down other people’s content from YouTube even when it doesn’t infringe their copyrights.
"Megaupload Video Reinstated, Universal Says “You Can’t Touch Us” | TorrentFreak
This is the first I’m hearing of this “special arrangement” between Universal and YouTube. I wonder how many more of these YouTube has?
