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Google will not avoid the trials for copyright infrigements

Google and its competitors are playing the game of the early Peer to Peer providers: Google claim to do not infrige copyrights on all its produts: YouTube, Search engine at least.

Each movie recorded uploaded on YouTube by an individual (you, me) that is playing a copyrighted song must be removed from the website or Google should pay royalties each time someone plays a movie. Until now YouTube didn't find solutions with the majors and the companies managing the royalties to know how creators can be paid. All those trials will cost a lot of money to Google because:

• they have to pay plenty of lawyers around the world -> an increase of costs for Google to pay the lawyers
• they will have to find agreements with the creators and pay them each time a movie is played by a user -> an increase of costs for Google to pay a part of their revenues
• if they don't find a solution they will have to pay fines each time a creator finds a movie that infriges its rights -> an increase of costs for Google to pay the fines
• they will have to find out the movies that infrige the copyrights -> an increase of costs for Google to hire people

Just for information: Microsoft paid $0.5 billion his lawyers when the United States asked them to split the company because of their hegemony at the end of the '90. Google doesn't have this power today!

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